The Flying Pigeon
Somebody messaged me on Facebook today about my opinion of my Flying Pigeon and whether or not he should buy one. Not having posted in ages, and feeling like sharing a bit I decided to post my reply here, enjoy!
I pretty much love my Pigeon. As for the build quality, that depends on what you’re used to, but I’d say it’s fair. It’s different from most bikes you see in your typical store these says because they’re all modern bikes and the Pigeon is still essentially a 1949 design still being built exactly the way it was 50+ years ago.
It’s all steel and weighs a ton. It still uses push rod brakes that are rubbish (but stupidly easy to maintain) and it has a pretty primitive steel wheel (strong as hell though). The tires it comes with were garbage (got 3 flats within a couple of weeks, but downtown LA is pretty rough on tires), so I replaced those with some really nice puncture resistant ones from Schwalbe. Speaking of tires, it’ll be hard to find replacement ones for it since it uses a rare size that’s really old and only really used in China and the Netherlands (but like I said, Schwalbe makes several tires in the correct size).
