Ikea launcing flat pack pike with belt drive and auto gears: this isthe revolution cyclists have waited for

Flatpack furniture innovators Ikea are launching a bicycle: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/recre...its-flat-pack/

It's the one which, when you've assembled it, you have several components left over, but it still works.

Jokes aside: Belt drive, automatic "Bioshift" gears are notable. This clearly isn't just a BSO (bike shaped object) as sold by supermarkets: the belt drive is guaranteed for 15,000km which is near enought 10K miles.

The is the democratization of the bicycle cylists have been waiting for. Strangely, it seems much more like the bicycle I've spent years promoting (except Ikea's is a fraction of the price of mine, but that's the point) than anything either the roadies or the vehicular cyclists (I can hardly say it without choking up with laughter) have envisaged.

Andre Jute
We have seen the future and it isn't you

https://www.google.com/search?q=pike...saASE8yDjKM%3A

Sure thing, Daniels, I had a pike too, and published a photo of it's patch a few years ago, but it outgrew that culvert and moved downriver next to a dangerous stretch of road so that I don't see it much now.

Andre Jute
All God's little creatures that are good to eat

https://www.google.com/#q=IKEA+flat+pack+bike

if it works ......

I should bathe n visit ..IKEA.


read where I have advanced swell into the top ten oldest Volvo owners in NA ?

Iyam the youngest.

http://goo.gl/hbK1Ai

helped a nab mount tires this morn. 4 newly Schwine sidewalk MTB...no levers
tires were loose. squeezum on no prob.

https://www.google.com/#q=IKEA+flat+pack+bike

if it works ......

I should bathe n visit ..IKEA.
read where I have advanced swell into the top ten oldest Volvo owners in NA ?

Iyam the youngest.

https://store-media.nytimes.com/stor...pcny4_extr.jpg

helped a nab mount tires this morn. 4 newly Schwine sidewalk MTB...no levers
tires were loose. squeezum on no prob.

eyeyyahhhahhah Beattie will buy one no porb



'Its price includes a 25-year guarantee on the frame, and a 10-year guarantee on the belt drive, which is supposed to last for 15,000km (9,320 miles).'

on the way home.....

THE ELEPHANT BIKE, EVEN MORE SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE

Of course, there's an even more socially-responsible bike than the Ikea, if you know where to go. The Elephant Bike is in fact three bikes, of which you get one and two, or the better part of two, go to bike-hungry Africans, whose lives a bicycle can truly change. See it he
http://elephantbike.co.uk/

Amazing, a bike that breeds two more, without sex intervening.

Andre Jute
Socially responsible

On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:34:00 PM UTC+1, Andre Jute wrote:
Flatpack furniture innovators Ikea are launching a bicycle: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/recre...its-flat-pack/

It's the one which, when you've assembled it, you have several components left over, but it still works.

Jokes aside: Belt drive, automatic "Bioshift" gears are notable. This clearly isn't just a BSO (bike shaped object) as sold by supermarkets: the belt drive is guaranteed for 15,000km which is near enought 10K miles.

The is the democratization of the bicycle cylists have been waiting for. Strangely, it seems much more like the bicycle I've spent years promoting (except Ikea's is a fraction of the price of mine, but that's the point) than anything either the roadies or the vehicular cyclists (I can hardly say it without choking up with laughter) have envisaged.

Andre Jute
We have seen the future and it isn't you

raise you one

http://www.elephantbikes.com/

http://www.elephantbikes.com/custom/ .....NFE

On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 5:34:00 PM UTC+1, Andre Jute wrote:
Flatpack furniture innovators Ikea are launching a bicycle: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/recre...its-flat-pack/

It's the one which, when you've assembled it, you have several components left over, but it still works.

Jokes aside: Belt drive, automatic "Bioshift" gears are notable. This clearly isn't just a BSO (bike shaped object) as sold by supermarkets: the belt drive is guaranteed for 15,000km which is near enought 10K miles.

This is the democratization of the bicycle cylists have been waiting for. Strangely, it seems much more like the bicycle I've spent years promoting (except Ikea's is a fraction of the price of mine, but that's the point) than anything either the roadies or the vehicular cyclists (I can hardly say it without choking up with laughter) have envisaged.

Andre Jute
We have seen the future and it isn't you

The strapline below my sig appears to require some explanation.

Clearly, the Ikea bike fits the European model of mass bicycle transit at 15kph by disciplined, well-mannered Europeans better than the American ideal of 25mph on a roadbike weaving in and out of automobile traffic.

In another thread on this board on the Ikea bike, the conversation has already wandered off into ill-informed speculation about rear hub brakes -- of types no longer made and certainly not fitted to Ikea's Sladda or any remotely modern bike.

Misinformation, blind prejudice and ignorance certainly entertains in that discussion, but how it advances bicycle transport is a pointless question.

Andre Jute
Oh, well, what do you expect?

Oh, well, what do you expect?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOCxegQupMU