Bike

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I need a bike shop that will sell me something like the following. Preferably somewhere with helpful and knowledgable staff who can help me choose which model and which size. (I am deeply unimpressed by Station Cycles whose staff are so useless they couldn't sell me a bike when I was ready to drop 600 quid on one there and then.)

• child seat
• step-through frame
• panniers
• hub gears
• hub brakes
• hub dynamo
• chain case

ETA: Yes I know this descrbes a Dutch bike. Yes I can find out which shops stock them. What I want to know is which shops have staff that are helpful and knowledgable about this kind of bike - i.e. not fen mountain bikes and other BSOs.

Comments

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

Tough assignment. With this many requirements, you probably want to do some research first and pick your bicycle model and then try to find a supplier.



For example, the Batavus Browser looks like a good match (once you've fitted a child seat to the pannier rack), except that it has rim brakes rather than hub brakes. £407 from Littlehampton Dutch Bike Shop in West Sussex. But there doesn't seem to be a Cambridge distributor for Batavus.

[gareth-rees.livejournal.com]

I found Townsend's on Chesterton Road to be quite helpful when buying something similar (in my case the requirements were: child's size, step-through frame, basket, pannier rack, 6-speed, chain case).