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TeamCaffee · 06-01-2008, 05:59 PM

We stopped in Thousand Palms CA at the Flying J to get a restart and laundry done. Right across the street is Joel's Bike Shop where we ended up spending a few hours picking out our new folding bikes. They weigh about 30 lbs, three speed, hand brakes, old people's seats, hand bell and basket on mine; Bob has a nice saddle bag.
I talked to our youngest daughter who informed us you buy a bike you buy a helmet, no helmet no bikes! So we are now the proud owners of bikes and helmetsWe would highly recommend this bike shop we felt we had excellent service and they really worked with us on customizing the bikes like we wanted. Added reflectors, added slime to the tires, gave us a couple reflector leg bands, showed us the correct way to chain our bikes and even let us take them for a test drive before purchasing.

That town has wonderful areas to ride bikes and we peddled our way all over the town. Had one crash so far Bob’s bike for some unknown reason did a wheelie and threw him off the back. He insists he does not know what happened. I hit the hand brakes too hard when I heard him crash and the bike stopped on a dime and I did not! He fell one direction and I fell the other. We had a hard time getting off the ground we were laughing so darn hard!

Had a great weekend with our new bikes!

pic of both bikes

pic of Bob's bike folded

06-01-2008, 05:59 PM	#1 (permalink)
TeamCaffee Moderator Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lake Saint Louis, MO, USA. Rating: Posts: 2,648	Folding Bikes We stopped in Thousand Palms CA at the Flying J to get a restart and laundry done. Right across the street is Joel's Bike Shop where we ended up spending a few hours picking out our new folding bikes. They weigh about 30 lbs, three speed, hand brakes, old people's seats, hand bell and basket on mine; Bob has a nice saddle bag. I talked to our youngest daughter who informed us you buy a bike you buy a helmet, no helmet no bikes! So we are now the proud owners of bikes and helmetsWe would highly recommend this bike shop we felt we had excellent service and they really worked with us on customizing the bikes like we wanted. Added reflectors, added slime to the tires, gave us a couple reflector leg bands, showed us the correct way to chain our bikes and even let us take them for a test drive before purchasing. That town has wonderful areas to ride bikes and we peddled our way all over the town. Had one crash so far Bob’s bike for some unknown reason did a wheelie and threw him off the back. He insists he does not know what happened. I hit the hand brakes too hard when I heard him crash and the bike stopped on a dime and I did not! He fell one direction and I fell the other. We had a hard time getting off the ground we were laughing so darn hard! Had a great weekend with our new bikes! *pic of both bikes* *pic of Bob's bike folded* __________________ Bob & Linda FedEx CUSTOM CRITICAL Owner/Operator D6077 Last edited by Dreamer; 06-03-2008 at 08:18 AM. Reason: To add pics per Linda's request