Love your bike!Originally Posted by divingbiker
I have a lot more respect for a working bike than for a poseur smirking roadie bike. You rock!
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11-04-2007, 07:45 PM #1
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"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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11-05-2007, 05:31 AM #2
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Jeremy and I have been discussing that Austro-Daimler since the price dropped. The seller did not offer me free shipping but did offer me the original leather saddle. (It's white -- can you ride that after Labor Day?) I have two fabulous mixte single speeds and I don't need another, but there has been talk of putting gears onto my Puch ... the guy at the LBS suggested a Nexus hub. I am going to need to be able to haul a baby trailer and I am not sure I can do that with a single speed, and frankly my geared bikes are not as well suited to errand-running as my mixtes are. (That would be my mountain bike and my road bike; the former is heavy and I don't want to put a rack and fenders on either of them.)
Doing the shifter hub upgrade to the Puch is going to cost about $350-$400. This entire bike is cheaper than that, even with shipping. But maybe I really don't want 25-year-old shifting.
Someone talk me out of this. I can't ride the bikes I already have right now; I'm just concerned that I still won't be able to ride much even after she is old enough for the trailer.
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11-07-2007, 04:24 PM #3
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I'm so excited! I figured out what the problem was with the saddle on my pink mixte! This bike has a seatpost with a clamp for a double rail saddle. I had the clamp flipped around the wrong way. When I rotated it 180 degrees, there is plenty of rail on the saddle to push it back far enough. My knees will be so happy! Originally Posted by divingbiker
I knew something was off when I measured my commuting mixte and measured this pink mixte, and they are almost exactly the same size. So I started investigating and found the flipped clamp.
As KnottedYet would say, "I'm a jeeenious!" (or just not very observant when I put the saddle on in the first place...)
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11-08-2007, 08:22 AM #4
I'm riding! I'm riding!
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I love your bike & set-up, divingbiker. Way to run errands without the car!
About that seatpost clamp, I have often seen that kind of clamp on backwards. I'm glad you noticed that problem.
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