Easy Riker - interesting commuter
10-19-06 | 11:38 AM
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Easy Riker - interesting commuter
Interesting. No clue on price and I imagine it's a bit spendy, but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.easyriker.com/home/englisch2.htm
Handmade Frame
MAGURA Fully Hydraulic Disc Brakes
ROHLOFF 14 Speed Internal Gear Hub
Twist Shifter on Handle Bar
Adjustable Leather Bench
Adjustable Double-Arched Telescope Fork
GermanA Rear Air-Suspensions
Beltdrive
Big-Apple Balloon Tires 26 x 2.35
Hub Dynamo
Here's the Blackbird
And this one is the Silver Bullett
https://www.easyriker.com/home/englisch2.htm
Handmade Frame
MAGURA Fully Hydraulic Disc Brakes
ROHLOFF 14 Speed Internal Gear Hub
Twist Shifter on Handle Bar
Adjustable Leather Bench
Adjustable Double-Arched Telescope Fork
GermanA Rear Air-Suspensions
Beltdrive
Big-Apple Balloon Tires 26 x 2.35
Hub Dynamo
Here's the Blackbird
And this one is the Silver Bullett
Last edited by mikdes; 10-19-06 at 11:45 AM.
10-19-06 | 11:45 AM
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It seems like the seat would be way too far back for easy pedaling, no? And the front fender is practically useless, seems to be entirely a novelty bike.
10-19-06 | 11:56 AM
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I agree: It's a novelty bike.
Nice and bouncy spring-air suspended rear that's gonna bounce the rider right off that too-wide leather bench seat. My favourite part? Belt drive with a bottom bracket attached below the suspension pivot so that the central axis of pedalling moves every time the suspension compresses.
Nice and bouncy spring-air suspended rear that's gonna bounce the rider right off that too-wide leather bench seat. My favourite part? Belt drive with a bottom bracket attached below the suspension pivot so that the central axis of pedalling moves every time the suspension compresses.
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10-19-06 | 02:52 PM
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I think it's supposed to recall the banana seat bikes of my youth. I'd like to spin it around the block and see hhow it does. If it blows, one could always knock the owner in the head and steal the Rohloff
10-19-06 | 03:32 PM
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It has a seat like a motorcycle.
It has high bars like a chopper.
It has a double-crown fork like a motorcycle.
The rear suspension is just like a traditional motorcycle.
It has disc brakes like a motorcycle.
It is belt drive like a Harley.
I think the funny little front fender is like a motorcycle.
The reason it looks like the bikes of our misspent youths is that those bikes were trying to look like motorcycles, too!
It has high bars like a chopper.
It has a double-crown fork like a motorcycle.
The rear suspension is just like a traditional motorcycle.
It has disc brakes like a motorcycle.
It is belt drive like a Harley.
I think the funny little front fender is like a motorcycle.
The reason it looks like the bikes of our misspent youths is that those bikes were trying to look like motorcycles, too!
10-19-06 | 07:10 PM
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Originally Posted by genec
Funny how none of these "commuters" has even come close to a very traditional Schwinn with fenders.
Last edited by I-Like-To-Bike; 10-20-06 at 05:39 AM.
10-20-06 | 12:35 AM
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wannabe motorcycles suck
Belt drive rohloff is very-very nice, only it's 100% wasted on this junk frame. That stuff should be melted down to make something useful, like a real bike frame.
Belt drive rohloff is very-very nice, only it's 100% wasted on this junk frame. That stuff should be melted down to make something useful, like a real bike frame.
10-20-06 | 09:22 AM
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Originally Posted by kill.cactus
you'd have to have internal gearing or some other system with belt drive though
Hm
It looks sweet though ^.^
Hm
It looks sweet though ^.^
10-20-06 | 09:27 AM
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Originally Posted by mikdes
Interesting. No clue on price and I imagine it's a bit spendy, but interesting nonetheless.
https://www.easyriker.com/home/englisch2.htm
Handmade Frame
MAGURA Fully Hydraulic Disc Brakes
ROHLOFF 14 Speed Internal Gear Hub
https://www.easyriker.com/home/englisch2.htm
Handmade Frame
MAGURA Fully Hydraulic Disc Brakes
ROHLOFF 14 Speed Internal Gear Hub
