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Date: 2019-12-13 04:48 pm (UTC)Oh, what a lovely bike! Given your local terrain, it’s Totally Correct you can end your errands in an elevator instead of hoisting your steed up the stairs.
The “planetary gear” internal hub is great for city riding: Sturmey-Archer invented it in 1902. Street crud doesn’t affect the gears at all, and riders can shift at a standstill as well as moving. MyGuy’s Raleigh hybrid has an 8-speed Shimano Nexus internal hub (but he doesn’t use toe clips/cleats former mechanic sniff).
Yes, I was a bike mechanic in an earlier life. (My first geeky fandom!) I got a step-through Raleigh DL1 Tourist on employee discount. (Almost immediately a railroad track grabbed my front wheel, with unhappy results.) The DL1 was designed for city riding. The tires could be wider, but the 28” wheels elevated me into drivers’ sight lines. The laid back frame angles make for excellent visibility and shock absorption, and the bar brakes have no cable to stretch.
Forgive me if this is a redundant rec, but Lucy Jane Bledsoe’s novel Working Parts is a sweet Lesbian romance about bike mechanics and literacy.