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Best place for dutch/baker bikes

  • 28-09-2012 7:47pm
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    Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭


    For years I've been drooling over bikes like Pashley princess Sovereign, but am I wrong to think 1k is a bit ott for a bike? I'm looking for a black dutch bikes (preferably with the old light) can anybody recommend a good shop around Dublin to buy one?

    My budget is around €350 and may go a bit higher if the bike is that special


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,343 ✭✭✭beazee


    http://greenaer.ie/Bear%20Bicycles.php

    But your budget is definitely too low.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,013 ✭✭✭Ole Rodrigo


    You can try the Irish High Nelly , or Dutch Bike UK who deliver to Ireland. Bit more expensive though. Or contact Rothar. I don't know of any other ones.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭dave_o_brien


    There's a place on Ormond Quay called Angel Cycles that seems to do that kind of thing. Popped my head in once, owner seemed sound, chatty and knowledgeable about what was needed for a basic, bulletproof urban bike, and sticked loads of bikes of the type that would have my girlfriend once again asking if she could fit a basket to her race bike.

    http://www.facebook.com/AngelCruisers.ie

    She can't, before you ask. It's me or the basket, simple as.


  • Registered Users Posts: 382 ✭✭12 sprocket


    Genuine dutch bikes at a great price from one of irelands best ever women cyclists http://www.prettypennybikes.com/


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Rock of Gibraltar


    Genuine dutch bikes at a great price from one of irelands best ever women cyclists http://www.prettypennybikes.com/

    €269 that's the best value I've seen in this country, I brought a new omafiets back from the Netherlands a while back only cost €120 over there and then €40 to take it on the plane.
    I don't know where bearcycles get off on charging that kind of money for such a basic bike, insane money.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 55 ✭✭RyanAndrew


    I'm using Internet Explorer and have never got that website to work - but managed to get this using the search engine

    http://www.prettypennybikes.com/bikes shows the image of one for €269.


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭FueledByAisling


    €269 that's the best value I've seen in this country, I brought a new omafiets back from the Netherlands a while back only cost €120 over there and then €40 to take it on the plane.
    I don't know where bearcycles get off on charging that kind of money for such a basic bike, insane money.

    Ohhh it does look nice! I'll drop them an email soon. May I ask how heavy/ durable is your omafiets? I'll mainly be using it to cycle to college and into town but I must admit I am not that strong to be carrying a 40lb bike like some of the dutch bikes :O


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭FueledByAisling


    Thanks for the replies everyone, I'll try drop into Angel Cruisers next weekend but I think Pretty Penny are more what I'm looking for lookwise.


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Rock of Gibraltar


    Ohhh it does look nice! I'll drop them an email soon. May I ask how heavy/ durable is your omafiets? I'll mainly be using it to cycle to college and into town but I must admit I am not that strong to be carrying a 40lb bike like some of the dutch bikes :O

    It's great, very low maintenance. Mine is a single speed so it can be a bit of a chore on the odd incline but the one advertised there looks like it has gears.
    Mine also has a coaster brake which takes a bit of getting used to. They also come with all the stuff handy for swanning about town as standard, very good lights, mud guards, chain guard, skirt guard and an inbuilt rear wheel lock.

    The riding position is much more upright so you're less inclined to race along, its quite a relaxed way of cycling.

    If I were you i'd take that bike out for a test cycle see if you're okay with the weight, I don't think you'll have a problem though I highly recommend them.


  • Registered Users Posts: 498 ✭✭FueledByAisling


    It's great, very low maintenance. Mine is a single speed so it can be a bit of a chore on the odd incline but the one advertised there looks like it has gears.
    Mine also has a coaster brake which takes a bit of getting used to. They also come with all the stuff handy for swanning about town as standard, very good lights, mud guards, chain guard, skirt guard and an inbuilt rear wheel lock.

    The riding position is much more upright so you're less inclined to race along, its quite a relaxed way of cycling.

    If I were you i'd take that bike out for a test cycle see if you're okay with the weight, I don't think you'll have a problem though I highly recommend them.

    The coaster brake is great for me, I grew up in Germany so when I came back to ireland I always looked like a loola panicing trying to slow down a bike by peddling backwards, everybody though I was crazy.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Rock of Gibraltar


    The coaster brake is great for me, I grew up in Germany so when I came back to ireland I always looked like a loola panicing trying to slow down a bike by peddling backwards, everybody though I was crazy.

    I'm a big fan of the coaster brake. My only criticism of dutch bikes in Ireland is that because about of stop/starting, traffic lights and having to interact with general traffic when cycling in Ireland that the extra weight can be slightly annoying.
    In the Netherlands or other places with decent segregated road design you don't have to stop when going straight on t-junctions or when going left at a junction (right in Ireland) and there are cycle specific traffic lights to aid continuous cycle traffic flow so there's less 'stop/start'.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    I don't know where bearcycles get off on charging that kind of money for such a basic bike, insane money.

    Dutch company selling what seems to the same bike for only a little less:
    http://www.workcycles.com/home-products/handmade-city-bicycles/workcycles-omafiets-dutch-granny-bike

    Seems like just with road bikes, different components can increase the cost? Or is there something else here?


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Rock of Gibraltar


    monument wrote: »
    Dutch company selling what seems to the same bike for only a little less:
    http://www.workcycles.com/home-products/handmade-city-bicycles/workcycles-omafiets-dutch-granny-bike

    Seems like just with road bikes, different components can increase the cost? Or is there something else here?

    Here's one virtually the same for €199
    http://www.fietskoopje.nl/?p=fiets&id=25&cid=510

    Maybe because the one you've linked is listed as 'handmade' might explain the extra cost but I really don't know.

    The Dutch people I know would even balk at paying €199, for an everyday bike most people would have a second hand bike which you'd pick up at one of the thousands of bike shops on every street for €50-€80.

    I've seen a few expensive brands around like Cortina which are quite good
    http://www.cortinafietsen.nl/

    But the majority of bikes are regular cheap omafiets and I think people would think you were insane if you spent €719 on one.

    FYI the dutch version of ebay is http://www.marktplaats.nl/ loads of bike shops list their stuff there, definitely the cheapest place to find a dutch bike.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 15,685 Mod ✭✭✭✭smacl


    No idea of the relative value, but they sell some very attractive looking Dutch bikes and cargo bikes at the weekend market in Marlay park.


  • Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 14,071 Mod ✭✭✭✭monument


    monument wrote: »
    Dutch company selling what seems to the same bike for only a little less:
    http://www.workcycles.com/home-products/handmade-city-bicycles/workcycles-omafiets-dutch-granny-bike

    Seems like just with road bikes, different components can increase the cost? Or is there something else here?

    Here's one virtually the same for €199
    http://www.fietskoopje.nl/?p=fiets&id=25&cid=510

    Maybe because the one you've linked is listed as 'handmade' might explain the extra cost but I really don't know.

    The Dutch people I know would even balk at paying €199, for an everyday bike most people would have a second hand bike which you'd pick up at one of the thousands of bike shops on every street for €50-€80.

    I've seen a few expensive brands around like Cortina which are quite good
    http://www.cortinafietsen.nl/

    But the majority of bikes are regular cheap omafiets and I think people would think you were insane if you spent €719 on one.

    FYI the dutch version of ebay is http://www.marktplaats.nl/ loads of bike shops list their stuff there, definitely the cheapest place to find a dutch bike.

    Virtually the same? Before looking at the spec, a quick look at the images shows that one has Marathon Plus / Kevlar tires, the other doesn't. There's also a clear cost difference with things like the breaks, lights, carrier etc

    Loads of Irish people also will baulk at €700 for a bike, that does not mean that others -- both Dutch and Irish -- won't pay a premium for a premium product. There's no right or wrong, it's what suits people.


  • Registered Users Posts: 179 ✭✭Rock of Gibraltar


    monument wrote: »
    Virtually the same? Before looking at the spec, a quick look at the images shows that one has Marathon Plus / Kevlar tires, the other doesn't. There's also a clear cost difference with things like the breaks, lights, carrier etc

    Loads of Irish people also will baulk at €700 for a bike, that does not mean that others -- both Dutch and Irish -- won't pay a premium for a premium product. There's no right or wrong, it's what suits people.

    What I mean is that a omafiets isn't seen as a premium product regardless of expensive add-ons. It's a basic bike almost exclusively for urban cycling on well designed and maintained bike only tracks, there's a sort of 'it goes and stops that'll do' kind of attitude to that kind of cycling in Holland.

    I don't think there is a perceived value in having expensive brakes or kevlar tires they're just not needed, I reckon the average cycle track in the Netherlands in better maintained than the average road in Ireland.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 275 ✭✭jacob2


    the dutch bike shop in goatstown dublin they have a great range of mans and womens bikes at the moment they have a sale for dutch bikes and all the other bikes they sell


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