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Would be interested to know how this compares to an Urban Arrow. The UA feels a lot more heavy duty than the standard Bullitt, I wonder how much of that is down to the sheer size of it Vs other factors.
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Regular Bullitt vs regular UA can take same weight. The UAXL can take more, and more reliably on a daily basis without stressing the rider out. mcamb I think runs a few of them for the cycle taxi company?
Bullitt/Douze/Omnium are all lighter in construction (bike weight 22-35 kg), but still capable of doing their job on a daily basis. The lower spec UA (45-60 kg) I tend to put in the 'leisure bike'/'family use' category. They are made using plainer materials and the whole system weighs a lot more*. Ask anyone thats done 10k+ on any of the above, Bullitt/Douze/Omnium frames don't break from riding/normal use/commerical use, crashs into things yes, overloaded and abusive riding yes, but you will find your average Tern will gain some cracks from that too, or just from the factory***Which matters if your human powering it and having to hump it around your house/work on a daily basis. But if your riding it with 1-4 kiddo's/packets/actual couriering, e assist, then the 10-25 kg difference in the base weight of the bike becomes insignificant.
**Anyone else getting Tern GSD with incomplete welds, actual holes in the frame where they've melted through the tubing? Then just painted it and sent it out? Thought it was just the mk1's that were patchy quality but just seen 2x mk2 with exact same shoddy/non existant QC. Also got another with headset cups not reamed in any kind of alignment, so when you turn one way, fork binds up, the other way, goes floppy? Bikes had a month of use, so totally possible that family rider has stoved it into something and bent the steerer in some bizarre way.
BrickMan
I just got this through, they are introducing a longer bullet with 22cm extra length.