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.....and that angry short guy, on the firewood transporter is haunting me.

he looks like that Italian footballer from Roma

so many design flaws with that. somethings fishy astir.

Mine - just back from powdercoaters today and built back up this afternoon.

Pashley Mail Star/Pronto.
3 Speed Sturmey Archer, drum brakes front and rear, rear rack, fittings for front rack.
Since I went totally car free last year I've needed a cargo bike, here she is. Going to use it for shopping, post office runs and just for the hell of it I am planning to do some long distance in the summer too.

Soooooooooooooooooooooo jealous!

Where'd you get it from and how much was it?

Nice looking bike, I must admitted that my memory of using the Pashley Pronto is terrible at best (when I work for Darwin Deli for a short while), but it will do the job for you.

just rethink on the idea of using that for a long distance ride, something I wouldn't recommended.

^^ I don't want to say how much as it will make people cry, it still makes me grin spontaneously.

^ I agree but I like epically odd rides, I did 140 miles in a day on a flat bar Day One last year, plan to do at least 80 miles on this...

They're about £600 new aren't they?

I too went totally car free last winter and annoyingly I've had to rent a van a couple of times since then to move house with. Rented houses so no furniture to move, but lots of 2'x2' boxes full of books and things like that. Had to get lots of taxis to pick things up from other side of city quite often too

Might build me a trailer in the meantime. I've got access to a workshop so I could make a nice welded steel spaceframe. Perhaps 4kg weight or is that optimistic.... 2x BMX wheels/tyres at 1.3kg each, 1.4kg frame and hitch... perhaps.

They're about £600 new aren't they? .

including a large front rack yes.

IMHO, they're not worth the £600 price bracket, they're pretty much an inferior product whether the other option flared much better, but if you got one for cheap, then they make a good little runabout (like Void's).

The very best one I've seen and ridden is the WorkCycle FR8, cost £100 more but worth it (for the budget version), the frame is actually steel despite looking like an alu frame;

Work mode;

Car replacement mode;

Think it's time to post my utility bike;

I needed a bicycle that does everything I need to do, from simply groceries shopping, commuting, hauling stuff, durable and easy to look after, ride off the beaten path (with a change of tyres), pretty much everything apart from one thing; racing.

It have a double butted steel lugged frame that's thicker in diameter (whose geometry is similar to an 80's rigid MTB), 1 1/8 steerer with quill for strength, have disc brakes, steel mudguard, triple crown fork to compensate for the very thick tyre of the Fat Frank, eccentric bottom bracket to tension the chain, design with the Rohloff hubs in mind, I recently installed an 11 speeds internal hubs that work beautifully, especially with the close ratios that enable me to change ratio without struggling when pulling 100kg worth of stuff.

it's pretty well design, for instance the rear disc brake is inbetween the seatstay and chainstay, thus make it easier to install any kind of front rack and mudguard without it getting in the way.

Despite the sheer size of the tyres, it actually work perfectly well, they take up the bump very well that even the roughest road in London's famous London feel nice and smooth, it's also brilliant during the heavy (sic) snow and does felt slow in the slightest, just easy.

The only thing it does not have is dynamo lighting of which I'm still saving up for a SON hubs.

This is my car replacement, and serve me well;

Pashley Prontos are £699 plus £40 for each rack and £30 for the stand, mine was less

Loving your utility bike Ed, beautiful

Bloody hell, £770! that make the WorkCycle a better value for money.

Another one is the Yuba Mundo;

YouTube - Yuba Mundo Cargo Utility Bicycle HQ

Loving your utility bike Ed, beautiful

thank, never ridden a bike as much as that one, so it make sense to get something like that than a £2000 carbon fibre road bike.

I need a chainguard, that's next on my Pashley to-do-list, have to put the stand back on too, the bolt holding it on needed sawing through when I was prepping for the paint job, just need a mega-bolt and it'll work.

Really happy with mine. I have two Surlys and a Pashley, I feel pretty stoked. The Pashley is my van/pickup truck replacement, the Steamroller is my runabout, the geared Cross Check is my comfortable car (leather seats, sunroof etc) replacement for longer trips.

I think I have enough bikes, for a while at least.

You and me both, road bike for fun and long ride, the fixed wheel bike as a runabout, and the utility for everything.

BikeFix specialised in such thing so they'll have some cheap chainguard and kickstand for the pashley, but get the dual one, not the single, when under heavy load with the single, the bike will topple easily.

I have the kickstand, had to cut the bolt but will put it back on tomorrow with new bolt, thanks for tip on chainguard.

Respect to those going car free above.

Bloody hell, £770! that make the WorkCycle a better value for money.

Another one is the Yuba Mundo;

YouTube - Yuba Mundo Cargo Utility Bicycle HQ

thank, never ridden a bike as much as that one, so it make sense to get something like that than a £2000 carbon fibre road bike.

i ride my shitty basket bike more than any other.

Respect to those going car free above.

Thanks, I've done it before in Devon ages ago, then lived in the US and had a 350 cu in V8 Chevy truck (I did use it for hauling though) that has probably made my carbon footprint clown shoe sized, so now I'm back here and committed to being car-free.
It's partly environmental concern/guilt, partly cost as I'm only part-time now, partly for the free exercise and partly because I'm a smug douche.

I hear you Jersey (and thank for that Smallfurry).

When I put together the old 20" coaster-only bicycle, I rode it everywhere, it was so unnickable, I left it at the railways station for 2 weeks without a lock and it was still there, the more I don't care about the bike, the more enjoyment I get out of it.

ironically my red bike appear to be unnickable as well, but it's always locked with a decent lock despite being in the same place overnight, which is pretty good.

i really want a bike like that! no worrying about it getting nicked.

I was car free for two years working at a local bike shop, then I got a job at a set design/manufacture company about 30 miles out in the countryside, so I had to get a car again for that. Now I'm doing another degree so I sold the car - it's not that difficult to be car-free when you're a student. Having a licence is useful for when I've had to hire or borrow cars or vans though.

As for un-nickable bikes - tried to give away my old mountain bike on here but nobody wanted it. Then tried to give it to a bike recycling place and they didn't want it. Left it unlocked in York city centre for two months and nobody took it. Went there this weekend and it was gone - finally. Then on Sunday night I was walking to the station along the river and I saw it propped up against a tree. Rode it to the station and left it unlocked. If it's still at the station this weekend I can ride it back home again.

i really want a bike like that! no worrying about it getting nicked.

i'm with ed.

half the time i just hide mine behind a bush or something.

lae, take your mtb back (unless it's those full suspension BSO), tweak it a bit, make it into a singlespeed as cheaply as possible, lock it somewhere in your town so it's like a cheap private Boris Bike that belong to your.

I did that with my 20" shopper, it was my Boris Bike in Wimbledon.

Hey jersey, since we're talking about beaters, you'll like this topic;

http://www.lfgss.com/thread37365.html