Hi Folks,

First, let me briefly share my story. I've been contentedly without a car for over 10 years now. This was ever since an EX-girlfriend had totalled my Honda Prelude and I then began to just commute by bike for what I fully intended to be only a brief time while finding a car which I would REALLY want to buy. Unexpectedly, I re-discovered the sheer joy of cycling - which I had strayed from for many years. Ultimately, I completely forgot about looking for a new car and instead began accumulating vintage bikes, and simply doing EVERYTHING on two wheels with pedals. I'm still happy, healthy, and admittedly a bit crazy. ~ Pushing the limits of how bikes are used or perceived seems to have lately become my personal obsession, and to be quite honest, I don't mind at all being viewed as "that crazy old guy with all the cool vintage bikes who we always see riding all over town."

MY QUESTION: And I hope you'll for give this newby to this forum if it's been covered before...

I came across this web site showing a bike which I would definitely like to buy - especially just as a frameset. However, I can't seem to find a US source for the bikes.

Here is the link for the Yuba Mundo bikes. Worth wandering around the website to view the various photos of the bike in actual use on the streets in Europe. -- It's built to carry up to 200 kilos [440 lbs] of cargo or even additional people.

I typically haul 40+ pounds of groceries on a couple of my 700c road bikes, and have even carried a complete bike packed for shipping to the local Post Office on a rear rack. But THIS looks like a truly wonderful design (and it would allow me to become even MORE eccentric). Hope someone can direct me to a domestic source for these bikes.

Thanks!
Bob