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2.5K is better!
Definitely arrange a test ride. London Green Cycles should have one in stock you'll be able to test ride behind their shops to give you a feel of what it would be like to ride.
If you're going to use it all year round (and why wouldn't you?) a canopy would be a long term investment. Understand you could make the box as many people do, but it will probably end up weighing more than the stock one and you still won't have a canopy for when the weathers bad. The Bakfiets canopy is a super-simple design that looks like it could easily fit onto a homemade box so would maybe worth looking at and is probably better value than a complete Bullitt system.
We leave the canopy on the Douze most of the time unless carrying something big/awkward as it protects our little man from UV rays and we can easily unzip all the windows so it's fully open to allow airflow and it has a integrated fly screen on front aperture too. Regardless of weather he goes in it and is always warm and dry, even at -5 degrees we had some mornings last winter and torrential rain is no issue, he like drawing faces on the inside of the windows! :)
Good luck hunting one down!
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I’m on the south coast, Fareham. But was considering going to SBC cycles to get the frame set. It looks like they’re the closest dealer along with others in London.
I was considering a gearing for 32:16, the classic mountain bike ss gearing as a starting point, but could gear down from that. But I think I’ve been persuaded otherwise now.
In terms of the front wheel rim had assumed you just used the most hard core BMX rim you could find ?
There have been a couple of Bullitts come up on eBay in the last 6 month. The last one which looked like it was in need of some tlc went for £1600, you also had to go to Glasgow to get it.
I don’t need the bike until September ish so I think my budget will grow to a more realistic £2500