New Barcroft Dakota

Bill Cook (http://barcroftcycles.com) delivered my new Dakota today - so in
spite of having lots to do I took it for a short (19mi) ride. It was great, I
still have to get used to the shorter wheelbase - the old bike was was a
Limbo, now sitting dejected and pouting with a flat front tire. Now all I
have to do is outfit it with reflectors and flashers. I'll give a better
review after I get some miles on it.






--
Mike Vore
http://www.OhMyWoodness.com
http://mike.vorefamily.net/twr

mike vore wrote:
Bill Cook (http://barcroftcycles.com) delivered my new Dakota today - so in
spite of having lots to do I took it for a short (19mi) ride. It was great, I
still have to get used to the shorter wheelbase - the old bike was was a
Limbo, now sitting dejected and pouting with a flat front tire. Now all I
have to do is outfit it with reflectors and flashers. I'll give a better
review after I get some miles on it.

You didn't carve your own frame out of wood? ;-)

From the one time I met him, Bill Cook seems like a good guy, and the
Barcroft bikes are very nicely detailed and finished.

--
Tom Sherman - Post Free or Die!

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mike vore wrote:
Bill Cook (http://barcroftcycles.com) delivered my new Dakota today - so
in
spite of having lots to do I took it for a short (19mi) ride. It was
great, I
still have to get used to the shorter wheelbase - the old bike was was a
Limbo, now sitting dejected and pouting with a flat front tire. Now all
I
have to do is outfit it with reflectors and flashers. I'll give a better
review after I get some miles on it.

You didn't carve your own frame out of wood? ;-)

From the one time I met him, Bill Cook seems like a good guy, and the
Barcroft bikes are very nicely detailed and finished.

I met Bill Cook a couple of times on CANDISC (a week long organized group
bike tour of North Dakota). He is from Virginia and like me prefers the wide
open spaces of North Dakota for bike touring.

He let me ride his prototype at the time and I told him the BB was too high
for me. He, like all good bike manufacturers, dismissed me as a nut. But
that was OK with me as I thought he was a bit of a nut too. He seemed not to
know how to go slow on his recumbent bike. He only had only speed - super
fast.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota