Big Dummy: Quite the Grocery Getter
I was picking up the final couple pieces for the big dummy from the shop yesterday, and was describing it to Dominic while Shawn was ringing me up. He listened to my schpeal and simply responded with “Wow, sounds like quite the grocery getter.”
Damn Straight.
I pedaled it to work today and parked it outside my office. I had a steady stream of visitors asking about it, and the general consensus was “that’s a bad-ass bike”.
Anita brought me a couple plants for my side garden. They went in the panniers next to my messenger bag.
On the way home I stopped at home depot to pick up 50 feet of soaker hose for the garden, and an economy size pack of zip ties (I ran out halfway through the big dummy build, surprise, surprise). All of it fit in the panniers with room to spare.
I cruised home, went for a mountain bike ride and then decided to go get some groceries. Kelly wanted to come along, so she rode on the back down to Bashas. We picked up 4 bags of groceries (the reusable bags, they were big), loaded them up and headed home.
I do believe this is the start of a “beautiful relationship”:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1567410/Man-who-had-sex-with-bike-in-court.html.
So awesome. How could any cyclist not want one! See ya this weekend.
- DaveC
Link | May 22nd, 2008 at 8:58 am
I have to admit, that is sexy…I want one…
- MJ
Link | May 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
Scratch that, I need one…
- MJ
Link | May 22nd, 2008 at 11:09 am
ok here’s a couple of Big Dumby or Extra Cycle questions. The wife wants a BD or an EC (prolly just the EC).
1.BD – 26 or 29?
2.Do you have footboards? Can you access the axle with the footboards and sidebags to mount a Chariot Trailer?
3. How tough would it be to change a rear flat with the EC Kit on the rear?
The plan is to put an EC on my wife’s KHS 29er SS. Mount the the baby seat on the Extra Cycle deck and tow the big sister in the Chariot Trailer. I was also thinking about buying the Dumby? Still in the planning stage.
- rhino monkey
Link | May 22nd, 2008 at 7:02 pm
MJ- Everyone needs one, end of story.
Rhino –
1- Currently the big dummy only comes in 26. It’ll fit 2.5 inch tires, though, which is AWESOME.
2- I just got the footsies, but don’t have the wideloaders (yet), which are the larger horizontal running boards on the sides. The footsies are super-sweet (see my newest post), definitely a worthy addition. I’m not sure how the chariot mount works, but if it needs to have access to the axle, it shouldn’t be too much of a problem. The only issue may be how far back the trailer needs to be behind the bike, because the frame does extend behind the back wheel a few extra inches. It looks like the chariot only needs access to one side, though, so you could always just not put a wideloader on that side.
3 – The kit just slips in and out of the frame, so it isn’t too bad to take it off unless it’s really loaded down. I think a centerstand that puts the back wheel off the ground is going to be key for loading and changing flats, I’m looking around for a nice one right now and have an email in to Josh from biketrailershop.com for some suggestions.
If you’re going to do an xtracycle freeradical (convert a current bike) I think they make a 700C version which may fit 29er wheels as long as the tires aren’t too huge. Might email xtracycle or biketrailershop.com about it. You might want to be careful with the 29er though, as the back wheel takes a lot of stress and so you want a nice beefy wheel if you’re gonna be carrying any sort of weight (and 29ers are usually a little less beefy than 26ers).
Oh yeah, and the BD is still out of stock until august pretty much everywhere. Might want to factor that into the timeline.
- Nathan
Link | May 23rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm