Originally Posted by Sixty Fiver

The Pug is more fun in nice weather... bought it primarily for adventuring on the trails and for winter although it is a very nice bike in city and not as monstrous or as slow as one might think. Those 4.0 tyres have extremely low rolling resistance so spinning them up is not that hard and even with a gimpy leg and a three speed drive I do okay and can take this bike all over the place.

My back could not handle the riser bars for long and had the cross bars at hand as well as all the hardware (thanks to groovestew) so I did it up and could not be more pleased... took it to the lake on Canada day and used it as my mobility device to get from our site to the lake, rode on the beach, and then went and explored some really nice trails and the forest.



I will be re-lacing one of those wheels with a cassette hub so I can give it a fuller gear range and then I can probably pull stumps with it... the secret is that once you get those tyres spinning you just keep them spinning and my high cadence style really suits the bike.

The wheels comprise half the weight of the bike... the tyres themselves are very light but the tubes are heavy (and provide puncture protection) and those massive rims add a lot of weight and a lot of strength.