[Leica] Biking for wimps

[D Khong]

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.

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>> 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
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>> 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
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> 
> 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
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