An IKEA bike!

[GrumpyGregry]

I'm sure auto gearing is very much a utility cyclist tool rather than one for the more sportier rider who would want a greater element of control, closer incremental changes and predictability to their gear shifting.

many cph utiility cyclists still ride SA three speeds. stuck into third and left there forever. but they have calves like ripcords. you sometimes hear someone with a upstart nexus shifting gear behind you, but usually folk are too busy texting, talking on the phone, updating facebook, or flirting with other riders, whilst riding to bother with changing gear in almost pancake flat cph.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

many cph utiility cyclists still ride SA three speeds. stuck into third and left there forever. but they have calves like ripcords. you sometimes hear someone with a upstart nexus shifting gear behind you, but usually folk are too busy texting, talking on the phone, updating facebook, or flirting with other riders, whilst riding to bother with changing gear in almost pancake flat cph.

like driving a car in the UK

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You can find reference on the interwebs of people taking the SRAM automatic hub apart and winding the spring a bit tighter to change the change point.

indeed. at which point the warranty goes west. but for £60 I'm sometimes tempted by the disc brake version..... for pancake flat Horsham.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Or could I perhaps interest you in a SA S2C hub, hand build with Rigida Sputnik rim?

For use as what, a bird scarer, a piece of modern art, or a rotary clothes line? Cos they are chuff all use as rear wheels for bikes...

 

[GrumpyGregry]

For me, your one is Easter.

Oh Yes. The Long Good Friday.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

You didn't get to see the other half of the juxtaposed image, the church in Bognor processing around town with a cross. I have never regretted a decision not to take a photo more.

But I did get to stumble along, half-drunk with lack of sleep, behind a similar cross in Horsham town centre, at 11:00 that day, with (some of) my co-religionists tut-tutting about me being "in drink" on a GF, repeat at 15:00, repeat at 20:00...

 

[SAB]

The IKEA bike looks really cool, I want one but I dont know when the UK launch date is!!!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeand...dda-bike-review-flatpack-observer-martin-love

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/02/ikea-sladda-bicycle-review-helen-pidd

 

[cyberknight]

many cph utiility cyclists still ride SA three speeds. stuck into third and left there forever. but they have calves like ripcords. you sometimes hear someone with a upstart nexus shifting gear behind you, but usually folk are too busy texting, talking on the phone, updating facebook, or flirting with other riders, whilst riding to bother with changing gear in almost pancake flat cph.

Sounds like my grifter , the hub gear cable snapped and it was stuck in the hardest gear .

 

[Milkfloat]

It still looks an interesting proposition. Belt drive, alloy frame a 2 speed SRAM auto hub for £350.

 

[biggs682]

i wonder if it will have any odd sized parts like their bedding stuff

 

[Milkfloat]

i wonder if it will have any odd sized parts like their bedding stuff

Or you could look at it as the Brits and Irish having the odd sized bedding compared to the rest of Europe.

 

[captain nemo1701]

You have already lost the allen key.

I have loads of spare IKEA Allens keys.....

 

[mjr]

Sounds like my grifter , the hub gear cable snapped and it was stuck in the hardest gear .

Interestingly, SA fails high but Shimanos fail low. It's one of very few ways where SA's venerable design isn't better than Shimano.

 

[Booyaa]

It is an incredibly ugly bike to my eyes.