I think I might get this Cannondale 29'er from REI: http://www.rei.com/product/763259

Plus I get 10% back when I use my REI membership...

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Excellent! choice!

These are some other neat looking 29'ers from REI.
http://www.rei.com/product/776761
http://www.rei.com/product/762221

The Single Speed Hamilton would be a neat bike, but it would be even better if it had disk brakes...

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Cool pics of people using bikes like that! Never knew such set-ups and designs existed. Are there any cities in the US that have people using bikes this way, almost a way of life, like the Chinese. Or are 'Mericans too snooty to ride bikes, transportation of the poor?

I work in a pretty bike friendly city, and I often see chicks in dresses and heels or platforms riding some quaint Europeanish bike down this trendy shopping/busuness area. How do girls do it, ride with platforms? Or even with a skirt, like the pic Leo posted?

Disk brakes are a nice addition. One of my bikes is a Cannondale comfort 400. It was i think $400 before adding a rack and other stuff, and it has been great. It doesn't have disk brakes. I also like fat tire bikes. While there is a performance hit, they more than make up for it when on gravel or riding over cracked roadway. Skinny tires and small cracks are often a formula for disaster.

I looked at a Rocky Mountain Trailhead today, I am going to avoid that shop, they were marking up the bikes, then selling them at a discount, which is actually the MSRP.

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haha nice to see some oldskool Dutch stuff sold in the USA

These kind of bike's are of the same time as hitler tho so they are not made to go fast but for going slow they are quit good.
As stated before holland is quit flat so if you live in some hill's i would not buy one.
I have a original one from my granddad and it is my drinking bike now.
It is from verry heavvy steel but it is built like a tank so it will never brake.
They are more for style then a fast traffic bike

Gotta love it; nobody but the Dutch would even dream of going drinking on a bike.

Beijing has about 15 million people and I'd guess about 25 million bikes that are used for any imaginable purpose. Chongqing has two or three bikes tops....why? Beijing is flat and Chongqing so hilly it makes San Fransisco look like a billiard table. What Chongqing has is porters....zillions of guys with a heavy stick and a couple of pieces of rope that they sling over their shoulder to carry any and everything. Shanghai is too uppity for a bike, everyone there rides little scooters.

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I also just looked at some Danish bikes, I actually like the feel of them a lot better, the only thing I don't like is the colors, I like the stealthy look of black...

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1979 300CD (sold)