Just to start a chat.
Since I am handicapped and live in Holland, I had to have a transportation system that keeps me on the move and the government wanted to supply me a scoot-mobile. They have a special budget for this.
Since I have Rheumatic Arthritis, it is better for me to keep moving my self to, so I requested them not to give me this darn scoot-mobile but to give me money instead. I searched the net and came by an old Sinclair, for sale. I bought this and showed it at city hall. They where enthusiastic about it, but, being 25 years old, It was not a solution in their eyes for spending my "scoot" budget on. Then I found an "out of the box Sinclair", never driven for a single meter/yard. So my budget-keeper, enthusiast as she was about the old sinclair and knowing I had the other old sinclair as well, (for spares)
gave me permission to buy this "new" one from this budget
and now we are working to get it back on the road again. Through the official channels of course, so an "certified" bicycle repairman has to do all the work
and because I like to be active myself while riding the C5, good for my condition, he is going to build in a 7 gear shimano gearbox as well. So I can keep on peddling.
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So end off this story, city hall saves about £ 20.000. That is because if they supply you a scoot-mobile they also build a garage-thing for it with electricity and change all the doors in the house so you can ride into the house as well. Meaning you have to have new carpentry as well, etc. etc.
And so I get my dream-machine. Life can be beautifull.
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