I have unexpectedly come into a bikes worth of money...

[GrumpyGregry]

...does anyone in the UK run a "Long John" like a Bullitt?

 

[ColinJ]

If I understood the question then I would answer it! I suppose that means "I don't know" ...

 

[goody]

Is it a Riddle?

 

[velovoice]

@ColinJ
A "Long John" is a category of two-wheeled cargo bike with a low cargo area between steering tube and front wheel. Lots of different manufacturers/brands, mostly Danish (I think) see e.g. http://www.longjohn.org/galerie/galerie_en.html. One example is the Workcycles Bakfiets Long, another the Bullitt as per the OP.

 

[Rickshaw Phil]

I'd like a Bullitt Bluebird if I could justify it and know there are one or two about.

@mickle has a Long John type but I can't recall which brand.

 

[smokeysmoo]

My name is Jon, I'm 6'5" so therefore quite long and I'd very much like a Bullitt car like Steve McQueen drove.



Hope that helps

 

[Glenn]

Take a look at http://www.practicalcycles.com/

 

[Pale Rider]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Riese...-Cargo-Bike-/221791675396?hash=item33a3d06404

 

[GrumpyGregry]

My name is Jon, I'm 6'5" so therefore quite long and I'd very much like a Bullitt car like Steve McQueen drove.

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Hope that helps

Dodge Charger R/T for me. Knocks spots off a mere Mustang.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

btw needs to be a bike not a trike. Will never get a trike up my back passage. Oh! Err, missus!

 

[GrumpyGregry]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/NEW-Riese...-Cargo-Bike-/221791675396?hash=item33a3d06404

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/331653680376

Though I'm not going all the way to Shropshire to buy a second-hand bike at pretty much what it costs new, with a strange supporting story, from a guy who wants cash only. Not in that colour anyway.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

and I hate the "image", nearly all racey and be-lycra'd, on the bullitt uk website. They are cargo bikes for flip's sake.

 

[Venod]

Don't know why but these bikes make me think of the strange practice (IMO) of a camper van towing a car.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Don't know why but these bikes make me think of the strange practice (IMO) of a camper van towing a car.

My local supermarket moved to the other side of town centre. Too far to walk back now. Don't like using the car, don't like shopping in Sainsbury's and the nearest is M&S. Hence need a bike that can take "car boot" load of shopping.

 

[ColinJ]

@ColinJ
A "Long John" is a category of two-wheeled cargo bike with a low cargo area between steering tube and front wheel. Lots of different manufacturers/brands, mostly Danish (I think) see e.g. http://www.longjohn.org/galerie/galerie_en.html. One example is the Workcycles Bakfiets Long, another the Bullitt as per the OP.

Ah, ok - thanks!

If I had to shift moderate loads over moderate distances, I would go for something like one of those, though I would prefer a trike version. (I saw a semi-recumbent tandem trike round here once and I liked the look of that.)