Recent content by wks

Yes, that's becoming obvious the more I phone around. Lots of shops willing to order in for me, but they expect me to fund their business by paying upfront and no option of declining or cancelling if found unsuitable and no matter how long delivery is delayed ie "time is not of the essence" in...

12 weeks to make a bike, + 8 weeks lead time. Staggering. Going the custom build route I'm seeing quotes of only 6 weeks, and that's for a bespoke rig, not assembling from a very limited set of options in RM's case (and I don't understand why USA customers seem to get choice of tyres, brakes etc...

Thank you for the comments. Sadly, no one seems to know of a rohloff belt machine available now. Don't want to get into the chain/belt discussion, I am familiar with pros/cons of belt drives. And I never replace chains or gears on a bike, always worked ok so far. However, fallback could be a...

OK, thank you for that. I cannot remembef if I saw those, I will have anothdr look. I should have made myself clearer, R&M don't do a rohloff / belt drive combo, which is what I'm looking for.

Hello, I am after someadvice please. I am planning to buy a replacement pedelec for my haibike eq trekking, which was bought 6 years ago. It is being handed on to my daughter. I had pretty much decided on a Riese & Muller bike, probably either a Homage or Charger Mixte but R&M don't do rohloff...