4000 km on a Birdy

Dear Peter,

I hope you don't mind that I am posting this on the new Birdy Discussion Board 
as well as sending it to you directly; I didn't see your name yet among the 
members who have joined the discussion.

Mike Hessey has an excellent Birdy Information web page (in English) at

http://www.whooper.demon.co.uk/birdy/

He has a new link there, under "comments" :

Bernd Holzum in Germany owns a Birdy Red. You can find his comments on
the web at http://www.netcologne.de/~nc-holzumbe/

Bernd's site looks to be quite interesting but I can't read a word of it! 
Anyway, Bernd put a link in to YOUR web page -- 

http://members.aol.com/pdeleuw/Birdy.html

And that is how I found your page Peter!

I shouldn't really have said that I couldn't read a word of your page.... I 
typed your URL into http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/
and told it to translate from German to English.

Machine translations can be amusing ;)

Yes, I have heard that the belt drive Birdys had their limitations. They were 
never sold here in the US. We only have two models sold here. A Metallic Green 
7 speed, and the Silver (Elox) 3x7.

Perhaps you could post to the board a summary of mechanical problems, 
modifications, and other Birdy wisdom you have accumulated in all those miles 
(km)!

I certainly agree with your conclusion that the Birdy is a "very, very good 
bike" -- I have three of them!

Bob (near San Francisco)

Dear Bob,

I am surprised, you found my Birdy page!

Of course, you are interested in an english page. But I think, I won't 
translate it in the near future. I describe my expierience with my birdy 
green while 4.000 km since november of 1996. I had troubles with the belt 
drive and with the spokes. Now I have changed to a chain drive without using 
the kit offered by Riese & Müller. It was too expensive (280 DM). By the way, 
I was not always happy with the service from R & M.
But for all that: The birdy is a very, very good bike, I like to ride it!

I have suscribed your discussion group to see, what's going on there!

Thank you for the invitation,

Peter


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