Picture, picture!

[twin]

Your bike looks like a wonderful sleek sculpture. Very nice.

[CyclChyk]

A classic beauty indeed!

[Bikingmomof3]

Simply beautiful.

[Geonz]

One difference between the Gazelle and the Breezer is that my whole drive train (I guess that's what it is called ) is enclosed - totally. It's not just protected from the top with a chain guard, which still lets all kinds of slop come at it from the bottom.

I believe it has the same brand of dynamo light, but I don't know if the Breezer has it as built-in. This light is pretty well integrated into the frame. My rear light's not dynamo-driven, tho', which I believe the BReezer's are. My model is still wheel-dynamo driven; newer Gazelle's have hub generators. I don't know which the BReezer has. It is really easy to turn on and off. The owner said the tire one could have problems when it got wet, so I think that is what happened when it suddenly stopped shining for a little while (but on exactly the same place in the road), which was not good. I suspect the rain did that thing water is so good at and reduced the friction between generator and tire.

This bike does not have the frame angles to put your feet down when you're riding, and I'm still figuring out how to dismount and mount at intersections. Nobody's fallen out of their cars laughing yet, but

Breezer does have a built in lock, too, but I don't know if it's the same engineering or an imitation (which of course could be better or worse).

I had been fantasizing about the Breezer Uptown 8 with Free Radical (hey, only about $1200...) - but this way's much cheaper, lets this man take something off his gotta-do-before-we-move list, and gives me incentive to straighten up the garage so there's room for the whole family. Another mouth to feed - but air is cheap

[pooks]

Oh, so the chain is totally enclosed? That's making it more like my shaft-drive bike, then. And you shift gears by twisting the handlegrips? Does that make it less likely that you'll throw a chain?

What is a free radical?

Thanks for the pricing info, Mimosa! My husband's family is from The Netherlands and he's been wanting to go there. (Well, the first one over with his surname (though it has changed drastically) came to New Amsterdam in the early 1600s!) If they'd kept the surname it would be Lubberdink. I'm kind of glad they didn't!

[SouthernBelle]

This is such a cool bike.

Although it does make me think of the evil landlady/witch in the Wizard of Oz.

[DDH]

Beautiful bike. Congrats!!! Does everything being enclosed make things harder to get to? What if your chain drops? Or does it not do that?