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More weirdness from PDX: http://www.kgw.com/news/PDX-team-wor...253664511.html

When I saw this story last night on the news, I laughed so hard that I almost shot my dinner out my nose. Fenders . .. a rack . . . who would have ever thought of that? I was thinking of sending them a link to this: http://schwinncruisers.com/catalogs/1960.html Do it in Ti.

-- Jay Beattie.

"It's a obviously a city where you can cycle 365 days a year," noted Jess Putterman, design program manger at Industry. "And we want to make that possible for people by designing a bike that really optimizes that."

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On 4/3/2014 4:53 PM, jbeattie wrote:
More weirdness from PDX: http://www.kgw.com/news/PDX-team-wor...253664511.html

When I saw this story last night on the news, I laughed so hard that I almost shot my dinner out my nose. Fenders . .. a rack . . . who would have ever thought of that? I was thinking of sending them a link to this: http://schwinncruisers.com/catalogs/1960.html Do it in Ti.

I recently visited the headquarters of a large bicycle manufacturer. I
inquired about dynamo-equipped bicycles and they explained that they
sold many such models in Europe as commute bicycles. Actually they did
try selling one in the U.S. maybe six years ago, without success; it
also had fenders and a rack as standard equipment.

You'd think that dynamos would be making a bit of a comeback simply
because of stuff like electronic shifting, but apparently batteries are
acceptable
http://www.bikerumor.com/2011/08/10/ultegra-di2-electronic-shifting-ride-review-video-tech-report/.

I think that the issue is that there's not a lot of money to be made in
commute bicycles that cost $400-800 so neither the manufacturers nor the
shops want to put much effort into it, especially if the sale of an $800
commute bicycle is instead of a $4000 CF bicycle. They're happy to have
Bikesdirect sell someone a $300 Dutch-like commuter
http://www.bikesdirect.com/products/gravity/images/dutch_gray_men_2100.jpg
just to keep the cheapskate from taking up the time of a salesperson.

come fall we will see various fitments surrounding the Copenhagen Wheel.

Ima YZ commuter....prob Beattie as well...The Dutch Syndrome is holed.

but there's no reason to not bolt a CW onto YZ bikes. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...

On Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:53:40 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
More weirdness from PDX: http://www.kgw.com/news/PDX-team-wor...253664511.html



When I saw this story last night on the news, I laughed so hard that I almost shot my dinner out my nose. Fenders . .. a rack . . . who would have ever thought of that? I was thinking of sending them a link to this: http://schwinncruisers.com/catalogs/1960.html Do it in Ti.


Is "urban utility" the same thing as "commuting"? Well, okay. If
it gets more people riding, cool beans.

On Sunday, April 6, 2014 3:08:51 AM UTC-4, Dan O wrote:
On Thursday, April 3, 2014 4:53:40 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:

More weirdness from PDX: http://www.kgw.com/news/PDX-team-wor...253664511.html







When I saw this story last night on the news, I laughed so hard that I almost shot my dinner out my nose. Fenders . .. a rack . . . who would have ever thought of that? I was thinking of sending them a link to this: http://schwinncruisers.com/catalogs/1960.html Do it in Ti.





Is "urban utility" the same thing as "commuting"? Well, okay. If

it gets more people riding, cool beans.

.......................


Wuz visiting the crust today where the med center's bike rack holds only nice clean seemingly weel maintained upright, seat post raked back uprights. Uh yeah the people there see themselves as what ?

http://www.bikesfortherestofus.com/2...1_archive.html