Comments on: Kinfolk Urban Cycle

By: gnarggles

gnarggles — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 03:48:00 +0000

its all about the lines

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:23:00 +0000

If only 9 million autos have been purchased in Australia in the last decade, that’s amazing and encouraging news. It does not say that the bike market has grown, but at least it’s something.

By: Kos

Kos — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:19:00 +0000

What is the point with the drop bars when the quill is so high? Wouldn’t it be the same if the handlebars were switched upside-down? Really just asking I don’t know much about bicycle geometry.

By: Adam Leddin

Adam Leddin — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 02:31:00 +0000

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-10-20/more-bikes-and-more-housing/3581798

“From the Federal Government’s latest CITIES REPORT:

11 million bicycles have been purchased in the past decade, that’s 2
million more bikes than cars and car use has fallen by 1% per capita. So
Australians are buying bikes and we are actually using them! This has
been attributed to the fact that we are choosing to live closer to our
workplaces, making cycling a more viable transport option”

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 19:17:00 +0000

Oh, sorry. In the future I’ll simply ignore dubious factual claims and act happy.

By: Adam Leddin

Adam Leddin — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:23:00 +0000

Spiny Norman. Stop being a dick.

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 21:14:00 +0000

Sorry, but I’d be astonished if the bike *market* was even close to what it was during the 1970s bike boom or during the mountain bike revolution. Again, stats or it didn’t happen. And “some cities” does is not “the market.”

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:25:00 +0000

Nice bike, although the high-rise stem and flipped northroads are really just counteracting each other… Also I’d challenge the notion of it being a Townie in the absence of mudguards or luggage.

By: Ross Patton

Ross Patton — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Seriously? Biking as a % of trips has gone up several hundred percent in some cities in the last couple years. My city, SF, comes to mind. It depends on where you live, but there’s definitely been a huge growth in biking this decade.

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:13:55 +0000

Are racks and fenders compulsory on a bicycle that will live predominantly in an urban setting?

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 22:12:34 +0000

“Perhaps, you know or work with someone that owns one of the 451 million bicycles in the U.S. It’s an industry that has seen annual growth rates between 10% – 25% worldwide. For example, the increasing numbers of over 3.8 million people in the U.S. using bicycles daily to commute for work. The global bicycle market shows significant growth revenues exceeding $61 Billion through 2011.”

http://seekingalpha.com/article/133109-high-growth-and-big-margins-in-the-61-billion-bicycle-industry

By: Spiny Norman

Spiny Norman — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:15:00 +0000

What Clay said. Although that combination of bar and stem is not the stupidest thing I have ever seen, it’s still pretty amazingly stupid.

Also: “Due partly to the popularization of the ‘fixed gear’ culture and a heightened environmental concern, the bicycle market continues to grow exponentially.”

Yeah? I call BS. Numbers or it didn’t happen.

By: Clay

Clay — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:09:00 +0000

It’s beautiful, but if those bars were right-side-up we wouldn’t have to look at all that quill.

By: Zach

Zach — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 17:38:00 +0000

“Urban Cycle” with no visible way to attach racks or fenders?