citroensm

...Moultons do get mentioned here. Here are a couple of pics of firstly my old APB down the south of France in 2006. Did about 850 miles from Antibes to Bilbao;



And here is one of my 30yr old AM7;



People think that small wheels must be slow or hard work but I've given plenty of people a surprise with this bike. It's probably the best bike I've ever ridden.

I was, for 2 week, the owner of this Rohloff equipped TSR, sadly nicked before I could get it back to the UK, (for anyone who hasn't seen it I've put a post about it in General discussions.)

I do love Moultons!

badmother

Some serious bikeporn there, thank you for sharing! Must have been heart breaking to loose that bike

onbike 1939

To lose a Moulton is bad enough but to lose a Moulton equipped with a Rohloff is just terrible....my sympathies.

I really wish I had had my TSR27 back when I was able to tour as I think it would have made a perfect touring machine and load-carrier.

edelay

I get that comments like that if I pass or catch up to someone on a normal bike with my Curve. One time I was uncharastically witty and replied "it is the legs not the bike".

citroensm

Yes, I suppose that legs do play their part!

I got back last Tuesday and didn't leave the house for 2 days. I felt sick, you know, like that feeling you'd get after you'd just split up with a girl. It's only the past couple of days I've been able to talk about it without fearing that I was going to flipping cry!

On the bike itself, it had been brilliant to ride. It had two panniers on the front with my tent and sleeping bag on the rear. I didn't really need the rear bag shown on this trip but I bought it anyway as it would have been useful back here and I did put stuff in there that I wasn't going to need often. It is a really clever arrangement how that rear bag clips onto the rack.

The bike felt nicely balanced and one underestimated feature of Moultons is the "step through" nature of the frame. I've done plenty of touring on traditional bikes and throwing your leg over the rear load umpteen times a day does get tiring.

Also, where the front bags were located made them easily accessible.

It was my first experience of a Rohloff and I did like it. I would describe the bike as being low geared. I was running most of the time from 8 to 13 and don't remember using anything lower than 5. There were no "real" hills and I was looking forward to getting it home to try it out on some of hills around here.

I think That I was possibly changing gear more often than I normally do but felt that that was because the spacing made it easy for me to maintain my preferred cadence.

I hadn't bothered fitting a computer, (just as well really!) but it felt like I was running a good pace. It certainly rolled well enough on it's rock hard tyres. Suspension or not though, it wasn't so clever on cobbles and absolutely no good at all on sand roads! (as I would have expected, of course. However, I did on one day find myself lost in a mosquito infested forest on a sand road! (Don't ask how!!))

LG.