For Sale: Kronan

If you want one of these there is a guy on the lane of bricks, got loads of the things, saw a bunch of them last week. Not my bag really.

Are they new? I don't want to buy one of dubious origins, so to speak.

Well they appear new; nice and shiny, wrapped in cellophane, bubble wrap and tape. He's got a lot so I'm assuming a bunch of different sizes it's at the beigel shop end of that temporary pedestrian tunnel thing.

Be wary looking at newer Kronans.
Since the guy at Kronan's daughter took over the quality went downhill cos she squeezed the factory dry, resulting in a whole batch of them that had rims splitting under duress. The older ones don't seem have that problem.

I liked mine but they are heavy.
Dutch bikes are lighter and more practical.

It's a style thing, I admit, plus the front rack is great. I want one for a heavy-duty everyday bike. I'd heard that there were problems with rims recently, not sure what to go for now really.

^ if you could be arsed you could just change the wheels...
powder coat them to match the bike colour even.

just a thought.

i had a kronan but it was wrecking my knees its too heavy ! good bikes for the flat cities .....

Coming from sweden I know a thing or two about these Kronan bikes. They used to be the main supplier for the swedish army, and were heave steel bikes coming only in one colour, olive green :)

The kronans sold now are of asian origin, and have a reputation of terrible build quality. All vintage style and no substance; if something is THAT heavy the least you'd expect is that it doesn't fall to pieces when you ride it :D

The original army Kronan bikes sell for very little money in sweden, so they would make a great restoration project! 30£ for the bike, another 30£ for the shipping, if you can find someone shipping these outside of sweden that is... just google arme-cykel or militär-cykel, and you'll get something like this:

http://kopochsalj.eniro.se/query/what/gti_info/ax/eallan/id/A21987076

I have to say, these look really good when rusty!