Very nice. I was all ready to place an order for a Workcycles Kr8 a few years back when a brand new Bombadil in my size for 40% off appeared on the Rivendell website. I still want one but need to thin the herd instead. Apologies for the threadjacking.
Laing On Monday, January 3, 2022 at 3:25:48 AM UTC-5 Nick Payne wrote: > On Sunday, 2 January 2022 at 6:46:50 am UTC+11 lconley wrote: > >> What kind of bakfiets is that? > > > It's a cheap Taiwanese copy of a Dutch bakfiets. A bunch of us got > together about 15 years back and placed an order with a factory there. As I > recall, it cost about $AU1100 (~$US800) delivered to my door partly > assembled. It's pretty cheaply made - stamped dropouts etc - but works > perfectly well. It came with a couple of child seats inside the cargo tray, > but I removed them. The only real problem with it is that it's overgeared - > it uses an SA 8-speed hub where the bottom gear is 1:1, so even with a 24t > chainring and 25t cog, that's not really a low enough gear for thumping a > full load of groceries back up the hill from the supermarket to our house, > considering that the bike on its own weighs some 50 or 60 lbs. Here's a > better view of it, with our terrier consenting to be cargo: > [image: P1000190.JPG] > > Nick > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/6e56ae2d-3c71-4c33-8915-2f3f18af1c28n%40googlegroups.com.
