Vereniging De Oude Fiets

The mentioned bakfiets is now for sale in Berlin it seems, with (different) original wooden cargo box.

https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anz ... 7-217-3377

Just to keep you updated on this bakfiets: I had a chance to talk to Hans from Berlin (https://www.facebook.com/Bakfiets-Lastenfahrrad-122906567794509/) today. He owns a collection of bakfietsen with a very similar, if not identical model, showing a "Union" label on one of the fenders. His model has ...

Jeroen Zuiderwijk schreef:Interesting to see them having ended up all the way up there.

Well... there's a dealer specialising in dutch bakfietsen in Australia - why shouldn't they have spread before?

At least it would be good to preserve as much information as possible regarding these traditional ones.

When Gazelle bakfietsen split off as Apollo (IIRC), they did produce bakfietsen with single tube frames, but those used square tubes instead. There's one for sale of those square tube bakfietsen at the moment, located on the isle of Fehmarn, 150km NE of Hamburg. Plus another one, a Germaan, same ...

Hm. Regarding those Gazelle frame numbers: is there some public data base available? I only read about this one here: http://www.rijwiel.net/dbase_n.htm But there is no searchable data base available. I send an email to Herbert Kuner as stated in the text (no answer yet). There must be some ...

Jeroen Zuiderwijk schreef:B.t.w. might there be a number on the other side?

You mean, hidden under the paint? No, I don't think so. We shall try and check that as well.

Jeroen Zuiderwijk schreef:Very unlikely in that case.

Not exactly one step further, but one step less in the wrong direction

The frame number looks like there could have been some digits hidden under the paint - but actually there are none!

So I guess, this is strong evidence, that it is NOT a Gazelle bike at least?

Yours,
Michael

It's a funny detail that your bakfiets comes with a bicycle stand, at the back :) Perhaps handy though when you have a flat tire, as you don't just flip over a bakfiets in that case. hehe... no, the reason is, that the previous owner sold some stuff from the main hold. The bicycle stand belongs to ...

Thank you very much, Jeroen! The bottom bracket/crank set combo needs some adjustment on our bakfiets anyway - so this could be an opportunity to check the measurements. The frame number might very well have more digits, like you and Maarten pointed out, we'll check that as well. At first we ...