New way to Commute & taking the kids to school - Taga
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Arch
Married to Night Train
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Well, it seems so far, most people's reaction is to the cost. I suspect many of us pay what most people regard as exorbitant amounts on bikes. Frankly, lots of you pay what I consider exorbitant amounts on very dull things indeed like upright road bikes with some very particular grade of components. But then I'm trying to scrape together the money for an Islabike, when many cheaper ones would do, because I just love the Islabike. It's all relative. Personally, I can't imagine spending that much, but I can see it would be nicer to have the kid in front than in a trailer, just for conversation. It's the baby version of a Hase Pino. Have you seen how much a Hase Pino is? But people buy them...
Not many people buy them to be fair.
You buy a bike - and only a small percentage of bike purchases are in that range of cash anway, and you expect to keep it for some years, mebbe with upgrades etc (unless you really are just loaded down with money).
Max life with that and kids is a couple of years. Buy then they have grown/bored of it/want to ride their own bikes/whatever. And the depreciation on that is going to be mahoosive.
Particularly at this time only a very few people would take that sort of hit. I would put the grand + I'd saved with a tag along in their Post Office Account and it would be a deposit on a flat when they are 21. Mean time, I can sell the tag-a-long for more or less what I paid for it. (Actually I got a new folding one at an auction for £10 a fortnight ago, but that was a bit lucky).
You buy a bike - and only a small percentage of bike purchases are in that range of cash anway, and you expect to keep it for some years, mebbe with upgrades etc (unless you really are just loaded down with money).
Max life with that and kids is a couple of years. Buy then they have grown/bored of it/want to ride their own bikes/whatever. And the depreciation on that is going to be mahoosive.
Particularly at this time only a very few people would take that sort of hit. I would put the grand + I'd saved with a tag along in their Post Office Account and it would be a deposit on a flat when they are 21. Mean time, I can sell the tag-a-long for more or less what I paid for it. (Actually I got a new folding one at an auction for £10 a fortnight ago, but that was a bit lucky).
Arch
Married to Night Train
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Bigtwin said:
Why? If you take care of it... Resale value of recumbents and the like is pretty high.
Davywalnuts
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Funnily enough, i've just popped into my LBS dropping off my one-spoke-down wheel, and guess whats there, looking at me! One of these beasts!!
So, basically, its a beast!!
Weighs more chris Moyles! Also run's on 3 hubs gears only so sod going up hill and everything is quick release! Locking it up would be a nightmare! I also would not have a 2nd kid standing up on it! No proper platform for the feet or "handle bar" for the hands. The way the steering works too would make a child holding onto it very-uncomfortable!
It should come with a health warning to women about how muscular their legs will become when in use..
So, basically, its a beast!!
Weighs more chris Moyles! Also run's on 3 hubs gears only so sod going up hill and everything is quick release! Locking it up would be a nightmare! I also would not have a 2nd kid standing up on it! No proper platform for the feet or "handle bar" for the hands. The way the steering works too would make a child holding onto it very-uncomfortable!
It should come with a health warning to women about how muscular their legs will become when in use..
Arch
Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Plenty of people manage on 3 speeds. Plenty manage on one, especially in the third world....
I'm not sure, TBH, that the second kid idea is really recommended... Maybe more acceptable on the continent, where everything is just better....
I'm not sure, TBH, that the second kid idea is really recommended... Maybe more acceptable on the continent, where everything is just better....
Davywalnuts
Chief Kebab Taster
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Arch said:
Some parts of the UK then?
But seriously, its a heavy bike, a very heavy bike, add the weight of a child/children and the rider and am sure some bridges will be off limits for weight loads... hehehe!
Yes, Holland, perfect... here... no..
jezhiggins
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Landslide said:
It does look kind of cool, but I do wonder how many people would actually spring for one. To cart two kids about, they'd need to be reasonably close in age. However to trust one of the children to stand there and be sensible, that child is going to be old enough ride their own bike. So you're down to one child that needs transporting and so that cost starts to look pretty very high.
I should say that I have an 8 Freight. I didn't buy it primarily to cart the kids around, but I do and its actually good fun and you can really spank around. Can't see that being possible on the Taga - it looks built for pootling in the park, not actually going places.
Davywalnuts said:
Well that would see to kick it firmly into the long grass of "much more money than sense expensive novelty trinket for Chelsea dwelling private garden owing flat park exploring body builders with two closely aged offspring at least one of whom is an aspiring trapeze artist/e" then...
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They're rather good aren't they, although I'm not so sure about the brolly holder.
now this is better.... http://www.kangaroobike.co.uk/
but i still don't understand why they don't just keep it nice and simple... like this... (the kid seats could fold flat and you would have a cycle-pick-up truck)
but i still don't understand why they don't just keep it nice and simple... like this... (the kid seats could fold flat and you would have a cycle-pick-up truck)
