New Bikes!.

[Rommagic]

I am seeing new bikes at my office,If all 100,000 of us will get one then Royal mail will fork out £25m.Any one on here got a photo of one.How comes there is no basket on the back for a mail bag?.Also how long as the royal mail had the current bikes for?.

[Rommagic]

I found this info on line.

ROYAL MAIL WHEELS OUT BETTER PEDAL POWER


Royal Mail is wheeling out a new bicycle to replace its 33,000-strong fleet - the largest in Europe.

The new bike, called the Millennium will be lighter and more comfortable than the existing model, with better road-holding and improved safety features. It was designed after close consultation with postmen and women throughout the UK.

Royal Mail's head of delivery, Garry Phillips, said: "We have built into the Millennium the features our staff say they want most, better suspension - provided by fatter tyres and alloy wheels instead of steel - a strengthened frame a stand and a lock, and reflective material for greater visibility.

"For more than 100 years we have taken great care to provide our postmen and women with rugged, serviceable machines. But we now need a new, versatile design using latest technology to replace bikes as they come, to the end of the road.

The Millennium is a first class bike for today's conditions, but we are continuing our research to find ways to make cycling even safer, more comfortable and more efficient for our postmen and women.

The new bicycles will be made by W R Pashley of Stratford-on-Avon, main supplier to The Post Office since 1977.

Each working day Royal Mail uses trains planes and 29,000 vans and trucks to distribute 75 million letters, cards and packets (nearly double that at Christmas). But for many of the UK's 26 million addresses, it is a postman or woman on a bicycle who delivers their mail to the door.

Notes to Editors:

Photographs are available on The Post Office PixElect site on the Press Association's Bulletin Board.

Some Bicycle Facts

Post Office trials of early velocipedes (cycles) failed because postmen found them almost impossible to ride.
By 1880 some postmen in Coventry were being paid an extra five shillings a week each to own, maintain and use tricycles.
In 1882 a Horsham architect designed a mail quincycle with a large central wheel and baskets suspended over pairs of smaller wheels fore and aft. At first it was affectionately known as the, Hen and Chickens but it lost popularity.
Various trials led to 67 posts, where mail could be collected by bicycle and tricycle owner-riders for delivery, being established by 1895 throughout the country. The Post Office bought its first 100 bikes in 1896 and from then on maintained a national fleet.
Standard bicycles were introduced in 1929 and the designs remained largely unchanged until 1992, Postal cycles had free-wheels, telegraph cycles had a fixed wheel.
A new lighter design in 1992 brought all-weather hub brakes, lighter frame, plastic mail containers and mudguards.
Royal Mail postmen and women pedal a total of more than a million miles a week equivalent to 40 times round the world or to the moon and back twice.

[leiwolf]

which means by the time we get the new bikes we be needing new new bikes to replace the new bikes

[reedy]

Dont get too excited about the bikes. The build quality is poor. The stand is ok and its good to be able to use panniers but a big problem is the pedals. They work loose very quickly and however tight you re-tighten them within minutes they come loose again. The only solution is to use locktite on them.

[woofwoof]

the new electic and big f@@k off bikes with the big baskets ,and scooter bikes they wanted to bring in have been thrown out on health and safty grounds

[leiwolf]

woofwoof
Wouldn't mind a motorise bike but what I would value even better is a proper bag drop

[woofwoof]

woofwoof
Wouldn't mind a motorise bike but what I would value even better is a proper bag drop

get a mobile give number to your dom say i want bag at what ever time u need it if he dont get there on time say i aint going past my finishing time see u at what ever time u need next bag

[leiwolf]

I did this once woofwoof, and they phoned me upo and told me they left it in a barn in the middle of bloody nowhere (I was in the rural area near a village) so what I did was gave a list of all the duties that I won't do because I haven't got the equipment needed to do the job, so far still argueing my case

[woofwoof]

I did this once woofwoof, and they phoned me upo and told me they left it in a barn in the middle of bloody nowhere (I was in the rural area near a village) so what I did was gave a list of all the duties that I won't do because I haven't got the equipment needed to do the job, so far still argueing my case

top man

[royalwud]

this is the new mailstar bike that replaces the millenium bike,
you must have been reading somethink from years ago mate,
anny think you need to know ask as i am a cycle mechanic in nottingham.

[dvbuk55]

this is the new mailstar bike that replaces the millenium bike,
you must have been reading somethink from years ago mate,
anny think you need to know ask as i am a cycle mechanic in nottingham.

Same here! Thought I'd gone back in the tardis - same size as my bike workshop.

[heapsy]

this is the new mailstar bike that replaces the millenium bike,
you must have been reading somethink from years ago mate,
anny think you need to know ask as i am a cycle mechanic in nottingham.

Same here! Thought I'd gone back in the tardis - same size as my bike workshop.

We've got these at our office, and I don't rate them really. The pedals are crap, made from plastic, i've already had a new pair fitted, and know of someone who has had 2 new pairs. So no good for scooting. The bike itself is now much heavier because of the pannier rack. If you deliver on roads like some of those on my walk, the stand is useless because the road and or the pavement is too uneven to use the stand. This means propping the bike against a wall, fence, hedge etc, and with the weight you are carrying the bike tends to end up on the floor quite often. The gear change lever is plastic and comes appart. The way it is secured to the handle bars is wrong, it moves around on the handle bars with only a single screw to hold the gear changer together. The gears can slip and you can't deal with fine tuning them so they don't, unless you send the bike back for repairs.

[dvbuk55]

We've got these at our office, and I don't rate them really. The pedals are crap, made from plastic, i've already had a new pair fitted, and know of someone who has had 2 new pairs. So no good for scooting. The bike itself is now much heavier because of the pannier rack. If you deliver on roads like some of those on my walk, the stand is useless because the road and or the pavement is too uneven to use the stand. This means propping the bike against a wall, fence, hedge etc, and with the weight you are carrying the bike tends to end up on the floor quite often. The gear change lever is plastic and comes appart. The way it is secured to the handle bars is wrong, it moves around on the handle bars with only a single screw to hold the gear changer together. The gears can slip and you can't deal with fine tuning them so they don't, unless you send the bike back for repairs.

Pedals should be changed every six months if possible. The gear change lever shouldn't move it just needs to be tightened. The newer versions of the Mailstar go back to the 3 geared hub and there is a conversion kit. Pretty soon some bikes may well be replaced with HCTs.

[Darren Bent]

How many gears ? (is it 3)

[DB1100]

Its a girlie bike,where's the cross bar?