Originally Posted by
downwinded
Not meaning this to be a "pile on" Andy post. This is just about bikes, ok?
I believe this post was just before the "show stopper" thread.
http://www.bikeforums.net/commuting/...-new-bike.html
The pics have been taken down. I thought, when I saw the pics, that there is no way the bike would hold up to much of that. Others commented the same. Could you put the pics of the bike returning from the shopping trip back up? I'm talking about the one(s) where it was obviously overloaded. Seems to me that is where the spoke/tire discussion should begin.
It LOOKED "overloaded" because i buy a lot of high volume & low weight items such as packs of burger rolls. The total weight on rack was 50-55 lbs. Monthly groceries are never EVER more than 60 lbs. The total weight carried (including clothing, shoes, helmet, lock, keys, change in pockets, etc) including milk gallon in backpack was like 72 lbs (a gallon of whole milk is 11 lbs). Normally on my old bike i carried everything in 2 backpacks & hung the bread off the wide cruiser handlebars. Obviously this model has town bars & its not really practical for that anyways with all the brake & shift cables. No, I cannot put them back, as for some reason linking photos to this site maxes out my free monthly bandwidth on photo hosting site very quickly (like 5 days).
- Andy