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If you get an Elephant bike refurb (they are decent BTW, we got a basically new one that had been painted and new tyres/tubes/cables fitted for £325 delivered, insane value for money), plan on changing the gearing. Ours was ambitious, even for flat towns like Cambridge you'd never use 3rd gear. Changed the rear sprocket to the largest available for a Sturmey 22 or 24t from the fitted 18t, a new better chain (KMC B1 or Z1eHX), and fitted the metal Sturmey 3s thumb shifter instead of the plastic one.
Things a tank, does everything that average joe/juliet is going to need from it, goes to work (slowly), doesn't get stolen, lives outside all year round without issue, has huge F+R racks, comfy. Slow though, even unloaded, its a plodder.