Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

We have a Kona (non-e) Coco. It's a good bike! Not sure it's fast, as such, but it looks great and rides really well.

yeah true - and MisterMikkel makes a good point that if you're hitting the limiter than its not fast, but an ebike is fast for a given value of fast...

Broad brushstrokes but I reckon, in the main, a bike with upright/v relaxed geo doesnt feel fast

e-bikes are fun!!!!!!! (not fast)

https://bikerumor.com/what-happened-to-kona-bikes-sea-otter/

A supposed disgruntled employee also has things to say down in the comments too.

Don't care, I get a nice painting and have one less bike!

I had some plants to pick up, so I’m out on the Langsam™️ (as christened by one of the foreign language assistants)
I also got chips, but I couldn’t find my wallet! the nice people in Grosvenor Fish Bar gave them to me and said next time you’re passing. Awesomeness. Now to find that wallet!

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Great racks. But taking a bike without pedals to that spot for pictures, I don't know.

CP thread here - apparently the field is over the road so I'll let them off.

Ok. I'd like that field over the road, might even go cycling then.

Trying to decide whether to turn this into extreme dad bike/slow tourer or sell it.

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The fork crown and wishbone stays are very cool! Love a purple bike as well.

my vote is for XTREME dadbike (tm)

I vote put some knobby tyres on and take it off road!

Despite being made of carbon, it is inordinately heavy, so I'm not sure how much fun it would be. I imagine that stem weighs about a kilo though, tbh.
Will start looking for a front rack...

I would sell it and buy some nice steel frame instead

I remember having plenty of fun on a hi-ten tubing supermarket mountain bike for several years as a teenager. That thing must have been 14kg!

Just realised I have a steel Saracen frame in the loft actually. Probably more practical. Less purple though.

Already have 'XTreme dad bike', realistically. Anyone in the market for a 90s classic cadex with a brand new chain and tyres?

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It looks like Rawland is releasing a new bike; 'The Rev'. I haven't found much information about this though. It looks like a Ti frame to me.
https://rawlandcycles.com/
Here's a golden oldie from them:

Why does the website say “Reason!” in Swedish at the bottom??

I do not know

reason??? cheers?

Can also mean ‘bowl or shell’ basically a drinking vessel. Pass the SKÄL! became ‘cheers’.… maybe?
And I’ll take one of those 26” rawd bikes to go please.

Nah… You got to use å for that. “Skål!”

But I think your right, probably an American misspelling.

As a swede, it’s really funny to me though. Gonna start cheering “reason!” at parties.