Saw the first pictures of the build a day ago, and can’t wait to see the final. Should be shipping it next week!

Thanks for your comments about my blog – glad you like it, and you’re inspiring me to update it more often.

I’m still completely in love with Downtown Cupcake Brown, and I’d highly recommend a Big Dummy to anyone.

I think I heard about your build – are you getting a Rolhoff?

We are in the Charlotte area too, but South of Robin in a place called Meyers Park. The morning school routes should be pretty easy to drop both in the morning. We moved from the Seattle area last year, and I never thought I would miss rainy weather – but I do.

I am being tortured a little longer, because I splurged and am having the frame powdercoated black before it is built. Tyler took it out last Friday and we should see it back in the shop in about 10 days.

Thanks for your enthusiasm Sue, Tyler referred me to your site and I have to admit it held my attention. I struggled with doing an extracycle conversion and then just took the leap of faith based on everything I’ve seen and read about the BD.

Can’t wait to cruise…..Stewart

The jake is great..need to get a stiffer rear wheel though it can be a bit flexy..but with the knobbly tyres it goes anywhere

Best wishes

G

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It is so completely-beyond-words-AWESOME to hop over to see what might be new on your blog this afternoon, (you know, to take my mind off of waiting for my BD and trying very hard not to make hourly annoying phone calls to Clever Cycles to ask “what is my bike doing right now?”) only to see PICTURES OF MY VERY OWN BIKE right there at the top of your page!!!!! WOOO HOOOOO! That was ultra-cool of you to do that — thank you! What a nice surprise!

We’re in Kannapolis, just a little north of Charlotte. My hubby and I have been to Portland, once, 10 years ago, and we loved it. (Ferns in trees! Amazing!) We didn’t have bikes with us for the short trip, but we walked everywhere.

Yep, I read everything I could find about Xtracycles, and your site was helpful with the closeup pictures of the BD, and descriptions of how the tires rode at what psi, how you liked the smooth disc brakes, etc. I learned a lot from looking over your shoulder! Interestingly, you linked to a couple of other sites that I’d also started to mine, like Vik’s, rootsradicals, bikeforum. Oh yeah – I was really impressed by your ability to ride the bike with your left hand and left foot, and steer your two dogs (weighing what, now?) with your right hand and right foot. Is that really true??

Getting late here on the east coast – email me back and we’ll talk more, OK? Thanks again for doing such a wonderful, generous thing. You rock!

Robin