Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/06/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Doug While checking out foldies, have a look at the much lighter makes. I have a Dahon which is 8.3kg and that lightness actually made me decide against the Brompton. There is now a Brompton look alike, made by MIT, which is better constructed marketed at half the price. This one is giving the Bromptons a run for their money. Dan K. Sent from my iPad >> On 13 Jun 2017, at 8:24 AM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote: >> >> On 12/06/2017 22:01, Lawrence Zeitlin wrote: >> Eighty five kilometers is a distance for wimps. I regularly biked far >> more than that. See these images in the LUG Gallery. >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/National+Century+1990.JPG.html >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Biking+at+Perkins+Peak.jpg.html >> (this was my biking companion - not me) >> >> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Larry+Z/Larry+biking+at+Croton+Dam.jpg.html >> >> Incidentally 100 miles is about 161 km. >> >> Disclaimer: Of course I don't do those distances now. I promised my wife >> I would stop biking long trips when I hit 80. >> As a result I have six bicycles in my garage rusting away. My only >> grandson still uses training wheels. >> >> Larry Z >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Are you sure you didn't just take that bike out of the boot (trunk) of > your car for a staged photo, Larry :-) > > Well, I did get in a small cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the > bicycle today, but my max distance on a training run when I was doing > triathlons was 150 miles or 241k. However, I only did that distance twice. > Most of the time they were hilly 60 mile cycles. I must retrace some of my > old routes to see what the total climbs were, so I should get one of those > Garmins. > > I too have a load of bikes - eight in all, but three of those are used by > my sons, even though one of those has two bikes of his own. I still have > my Mercian Superlight racer which I'm going to hang onto as it's a > gorgeous piece of kit. I'm going to sell three of the others over the next > couple of months including a heavy folder which weighs as much as a garden > gate. I'm going to buy a Brompton folder instead, as it's much lighter. > > Douglas > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information