The Moulton Bicycle Company has a quantity of new old stock Fichtel & Sachs Duomatic hubs for sale for £75 each.
The big benefit of buying these from Moulton Bicycle Company is that they have been stripped and regreased. You can purchase Duomatic hubs from hubstripping.com or ebay, but you have to regrease the hub yourself.
Moulton Bicycle Company can be contacted at office@moultonbicycles.co.uk or +44 1225 865895. Tell them Moulton Buzz sent you!
Lots more to come, and maybe some text too. Here's a few pics to whet the appetite. Includes the new TSR models, the museum's new MK4, a Vic Nicholson MK3 replica, and an unofficial folding mini...
For more see http://www.flickr.com/photos/moultonbuzz/sets/72157622365180448/
Saturday marks the 14th anniversary of the launch of the Land Rover APB in September 1995. The Land Rover APB was a Pashley Moulton APB, using the Land Rover name under licence. Thanks to Ken Butterfield for the brochure scans and original press release.
Also, have a look at this interview by Carlton Reid with AA President, Edmund King. During his time with the RAC, King launched an RAC branded APB, introducing...
...RAC members to the concept of “mobility, not just motoring”, spearheading a ’smart travel’ campaign by selling RAC-branded bicycles. These were re-badged Moulton APBs, produced by Pashley. “We sold a few,” said King, ” but it was more to make a statement than make money.”
Just spent the evening getting the AM7 ready to travel to Bradford on Avon for the weekend. It's 25 years old this year.
British saddle maker Brooks has owned the leather saddle category for decades, and now a Korean company called Zimbale is branching out into the lucrative US market via Hyde Park Cyclesports in Boise, Idaho.
"My own interest in Zimbale came about partly out of frustration with the unpredictable availability of similar products from existing suppliers and manufacturers," Hyde Park Cyclesports owner Jim Powers told BikeRadar. "I received an email from Zimbale and asked for some samples. I was impressed enough with the samples to begin a conversation about becoming the US distributor.
"We were able to come to an agreement, and now I'm working towards meeting their projections for sales in this country. Interbike is the first step."
According to Powers, the Zimbale brand was created by a small group of individuals with backgrounds in textiles, manufacturing and cycling who also saw the need for a more reliable source of fine leather saddles and leather and textile saddlebags. The group is in Korea, and the bags are made in Korea.
Korean Saddle And Bag Maker Aiming For Brooks And Carradice - BikeRadar.
