15x 1 gallon pots of raspberry plants
Staging the raspberries
Elena and I off to dinner
Me and the wife redux
40lbs cat litter AND two shovel handles
Taking the box in which it arrived to the recyling
Typical load? 30 lbs catfood, 15lbs coffee grounds and two quesadillas...
Me, my road bike and my gear 9 miles and ~1000 feet (altitude, upward) home from the duathalon
The babybluebicycle team trying out the BD
And finally, life of the party give everyone a ride time, photos thanks to dina:
6'5" guy
Pregnant People
Rear Grab
Happy to have voted
Yee haw...
Side Saddle
Pretty hair sunvisor wife!
I can't pretend that the bike is perfect, and I will have a Big Dummy expose soon, but overall I am really really happy with it. It is much better for me than the alternatives in the same price range or less, and I did not have to build it myself, which is what it outcompeted... The bottom line is that it rides more like a real bike when loaded with more than a real bike can carry and still ride right. Dig?
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Looking forward to the Big Dummy Expose. I’m hoping to build a Dummy if they are ever available again.
TS—Woohoo!
1SB—more Big Dummies supposedly will be available in August/September according to the Surlyblog
Tarik, any chance you could follow up with a brief BD expose? I'm mulling a purchase and would be curious to hear now to that you have a few years experience with the bike. Thanks!
Byron,
I can probably get to that at some point, I will hack something up for next week. Bottom line is that I still love it, I think it really rides like a mountain bike off road (wheelbase and high center propensity aside), but that it could be stiffer still if the V-racks were built in and triangulated to the frame. Otherwise it is pretty damn good. I get that they wanted to use existing xtracycle components, but it cost them some loading capacity. I would seriously consider an extracycle edgerunner if I was in the market right now:
http://www.xtracycle.com/edgerunner
I would also look at the yuba mundo and the kona ute and the miniute. i have not tried either other than around the block tests, I get the impression that they would not be as fun off road as the big dummy, but they may be better when loaded up all the way, but I am not sure...
Thanks Tarik! Exactly what I was wondering about the triangulation of the V-racks. Seems like the BD looses some capacity in the name of versatility, though I'm a big fan of Surly stuff after riding a XC and several forks.
The Mundo is a close second but was pretty low-spec until their most recent frame, which seems to be improving. I suppose their are trade-offs either way.
Byron,
I ride my Big Dummy off road all the time, athat would probably be a deciding point for that versus other ones for me. If you have not browsed my BD tagged posts, I have done a lot of hauling:
http://tsaleh.blogspot.com/search/label/big%20dummy
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