2nd Big Dummy Bicycle at Salzburg/Austria?
Robert from Ohio/USA, riding a Big Dummy at home, contacted me some months ago, announcing his visit to Austria. He was going to move to Salzburg for some longer period of time, visiting his Salzburg family and thinking about getting another Big Dummy frame over here, just bringing his parts with him, since he did not want to stay without a big dummy cycle (yes, that is quite an issue).
Today Robert emailed me about his arrival in Austria and it turned out he had taken the whole thing with him:
“Yes, I ‘m now back in Salzburg and have brought my BD with me as extra baggage for $200 dollars (about 150euro) as this was the most appropriate method (cheapest) rather than shipping just the parts and buying a frame over here.”
See Roberts pictures how to airmail a complete big dummy bicycle. 200$ is not that much, especially keeping in mind, that I once had to pay EUR 300(!!!) for shipping some small package with bicycle parts from Taiwan to Austria.
He also states:
“I would be very glad to have an article in your blog about having the 2nd BD in Austria, in fact I have been looking forward to this since your first email.”
I am happy to drop in this article. Actually, I am not really sure whether there are only two Big Dummy bicycles in Austria (I realize, one of my E-mails did indicate this), but in fact this may very well be the second BD in the Salzburg area. At least, I have never met any Big Dummies over here and there are no comments of Austrian BD riders in this blog. However, Surly as a bicycle manufacturer is rather wellknown over here.
Robert went for a ride with a local cycling club (see pictures). I am very much looking forward to have a beer with him, since we have not yet been able to meet up to now, and weather is still very bad. So maybe we need to wait some more time until those two big dummies can be captured on one picture with those two happy riders.
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- Roberts big dummy airmailed to Europe
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- Unpacking big dummy after shipping to Europe
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- Reassembled after being shipped to Europe
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- Roberts big dummy parked with great untersberg view
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- Riding with a local cycling association
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- Posing with some local cycling association
Please note these are Roberts pictures, that I am publishing here. Thanks a lot!
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By alec, June 21, 2009 @ 13:54
na, da fährt doch in wien auch ein BD rum, seit 2 monaten so circa! radek, mein werter kollege bei der ig fahrrad in der rembrandstrasse, wien 2, ist fast nicht mehr runterzukriegen und war sehr froh, als es endlich da war. robert ist also maximal nr 3 in .at!
By flatboarder, June 21, 2009 @ 17:36
Dann wird Kollege Radek vielleicht Austrias Nr.3 sein, denn Roberts BD ist schon länger als 2 Monate hier.
Wer will noch in die kleine Statistik? Wer ist die wahre Nr.1?
Happy counting!