Bike wanted! Shortlist!

On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 11:28:56 AM UTC+1, Duane wrote:

If I had a bike that would last forever I'd never get to buy a new bike. It
would have to be a pretty cool bike then.

My Utopia Kranich is the nearest thing I could buy to a bike I designed for myself and failed to find a trustworthy brazier for. But having a bike that lasts forever doesn't stop the committed cyclist looking...

My shortlist holds three bikes, all with Rohloff gears: another Utopia Kranich in yellow (my present one is green with gold coachlines), a Thorn Raven tourer (Sheldon had one and swore by it, and lots of Americans with class import their own; it's probably the best fast touring bike you can buy), and a Utopia Phoenix, a semi-recliner quite unsuited to my hilly surroundings but a nice thing to have, currently out of production as they redevelop it to Kranich standards (I suspect they took over the design for the Scooterbike that I first looked into in the 1990s and didn't buy because it wasn't built well enough by the then-owners of the design).

What's on your shortlist?

Andre Jute
Once I was even leaner and meaner

Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 11:28:56 AM UTC+1, Duane wrote:

If I had a bike that would last forever I'd never get to buy a new bike. It
would have to be a pretty cool bike then.

My Utopia Kranich is the nearest thing I could buy to a bike I designed
for myself and failed to find a trustworthy brazier for. But having a
bike that lasts forever doesn't stop the committed cyclist looking...

My shortlist holds three bikes, all with Rohloff gears: another Utopia
Kranich in yellow (my present one is green with gold coachlines), a Thorn
Raven tourer (Sheldon had one and swore by it, and lots of Americans with
class import their own; it's probably the best fast touring bike you can
buy), and a Utopia Phoenix, a semi-recliner quite unsuited to my hilly
surroundings but a nice thing to have, currently out of production as
they redevelop it to Kranich standards (I suspect they took over the
design for the Scooterbike that I first looked into in the 1990s and
didn't buy because it wasn't built well enough by the then-owners of the design).

What's on your shortlist?

Andre Jute
Once I was even leaner and meaner


I like road bikes now so my current bike which is a Tarmac Pro from
Specialized. It was on my shortlist for a while but I finally got a deal I
couldn't pass up.


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On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 8:38:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
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On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 8:53:00 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 8:38:06 PM UTC-4, wrote:
do do wah doo doo

wah wah wah '

doo doo wah wah wah

doo doo

http://goo.gl/dLjikP

bup bup bup

baap baaaaaap

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/26/op...zero.html?_r=0

http://www.kastenmarine.com/_photos/boomer_underway.jpg

schoo sch.oo


whoo whoo whooo
schoo schoo

enter: NYT Cuba Hemingway house...into Google News

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...ingway+h ouse



https://goo.gl/uZxmmf

http://www.theplaidzebra.com/8-reaso...-in-the-world/

On 27/04/16 01:29, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 11:28:56 AM UTC+1, Duane wrote:

If I had a bike that would last forever I'd never get to buy a new
bike. It would have to be a pretty cool bike then.

My Utopia Kranich is the nearest thing I could buy to a bike I
designed for myself and failed to find a trustworthy brazier for. But
having a bike that lasts forever doesn't stop the committed cyclist
looking...

My shortlist holds three bikes, all with Rohloff gears: another
Utopia Kranich in yellow (my present one is green with gold
coachlines), a Thorn Raven tourer (Sheldon had one and swore by it,
and lots of Americans with class import their own; it's probably the
best fast touring bike you can buy), and a Utopia Phoenix, a
semi-recliner quite unsuited to my hilly surroundings but a nice
thing to have, currently out of production as they redevelop it to
Kranich standards (I suspect they took over the design for the
Scooterbike that I first looked into in the 1990s and didn't buy
because it wasn't built well enough by the then-owners of the
design).

What's on your shortlist?

Kmercian. King Of Mercia tourer. Cooer, look at the lugs on that!

On Wednesday, April 27, 2016 at 6:14:14 AM UTC+1, Tosspot wrote:
On 27/04/16 01:29, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 11:28:56 AM UTC+1, Duane wrote:

If I had a bike that would last forever I'd never get to buy a new
bike. It would have to be a pretty cool bike then.

My Utopia Kranich is the nearest thing I could buy to a bike I
designed for myself and failed to find a trustworthy brazier for. But
having a bike that lasts forever doesn't stop the committed cyclist
looking...

My shortlist holds three bikes, all with Rohloff gears: another
Utopia Kranich in yellow (my present one is green with gold
coachlines), a Thorn Raven tourer (Sheldon had one and swore by it,
and lots of Americans with class import their own; it's probably the
best fast touring bike you can buy), and a Utopia Phoenix, a
semi-recliner quite unsuited to my hilly surroundings but a nice
thing to have, currently out of production as they redevelop it to
Kranich standards (I suspect they took over the design for the
Scooterbike that I first looked into in the 1990s and didn't buy
because it wasn't built well enough by the then-owners of the
design).

What's on your shortlist?

Kmercian. King Of Mercia tourer. Cooer, look at the lugs on that!

Hallelujah!!

Andre Jute

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have one...cost $50

( $500 upgrade 10 years later )

On 4/26/2016 10:14 PM, Tosspot wrote:
On 27/04/16 01:29, Andre Jute wrote:
On Tuesday, April 26, 2016 at 11:28:56 AM UTC+1, Duane wrote:

If I had a bike that would last forever I'd never get to buy a new
bike. It would have to be a pretty cool bike then.

My Utopia Kranich is the nearest thing I could buy to a bike I
designed for myself and failed to find a trustworthy brazier for. But
having a bike that lasts forever doesn't stop the committed cyclist
looking...

My shortlist holds three bikes, all with Rohloff gears: another
Utopia Kranich in yellow (my present one is green with gold
coachlines), a Thorn Raven tourer (Sheldon had one and swore by it,
and lots of Americans with class import their own; it's probably the
best fast touring bike you can buy), and a Utopia Phoenix, a
semi-recliner quite unsuited to my hilly surroundings but a nice
thing to have, currently out of production as they redevelop it to
Kranich standards (I suspect they took over the design for the
Scooterbike that I first looked into in the 1990s and didn't buy
because it wasn't built well enough by the then-owners of the
design).

What's on your shortlist?

Kmercian. King Of Mercia tourer. Cooer, look at the lugs on that!

Firenze GL5000. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ke1tc4pWGA