Woods valves! I remember them! I suppose you can still buy the little rubber
tube that fits over the metal valve core?
I wonder if these are made in India ...? If so, I should think one could
sell them in the US for far less than $500. (Oh, spiffed up -- as in alum
rims, ss spokes, better brakes, Schraeder valves ...)
But it looks like a very affordable, 3d world type utility bike that is far,
far far FAR (did I say it often enough? In case I didn't:
FARFARFARFARFAR!!!) better than the crapola, turn-of-the-19th-century
design, rod brake roadsters. ($1,500 Pashleys --- faugh!)
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:47 AM, Earl Grey earlg...@gmail.com wrote:
Not a for sale ad. :)
I was just surprised that I got no responses to my reply to the Riv
beater thread, but I did respond rather late... Anyway, if they can
sell this bike for $120 in Thailand,
http://www.flickr.com/photos/25150...@n08/4811164801/
I can't see why it couldn't sell in the US for $500 with some spiffed
up specs. It really is too bad this market niche remains empty in the
US.
This is my wife's bike, a 2008 lugged steel, 6 speed Raleigh with
metal headbadge, fenders, basket, kickstand, chainguard and
skirtguard, and even a passenger seat w/foot-pegs in lieu of a rear
rack. :) (As the Thais say: buy one, free one.)
I was dead-set against buying it, because it seemed too cheap, but it
has held up very well for 1.5 years of almost daily commuting and the
occasional ride to dinner with me as the captain and my wife on the
back seat. The lugs are the crudest you'll ever see, the fork is a
unicrown and an ugly one at that, the rear drum brake is a joke,
especially combined with the plastic brake levers (but the stamped
metal front sidepull works well), and the indexed shifting requires
overshifting to get into certain gears (but at least it's easy to do
with the thumbshifter). The nipples are plated steel and have started
to rust (I just WD40 them on occasion), and the cranks, seat post,
hubs, and bars are steel as well. The tire sidewalls cracked all
around the first year because the tubes kept loosing air and my wife
would ride it with 15-20 psi or so rather than dealing with the stock
Woods valves or asking me to pump up her tires, but the tires are
still going anyway. The paint started out as a metallic turquoise but
has faded to a much nicer bluish silver from 1.5 years of tropical sun
exposure at her work.
Anyone wanna help me import these? :)
Cheers,
Gernot
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