According to the owner of the company he spent $500,000 developing the seat! Jeez, I would have sold
him my company for $500,000. The seat has no support rods. The lack of seat support rods on the
Bikee was probably one of the factors in their problems with the breakage of the seat clamp
mechanism which resulted in one of their recalls. I found out the hard way early on about seat
design problems. The original seats on our bikes didn't have diagonal braces on the top of the
middle cross piece, (the support rods attached to the diagonal braces on the bottom of the cross
piece). We had a couple of customers who were so strong they managed to bend the seat frame above
the cross piece. Addition of braces on the top of the cross piece cured the problem. I see that
Bigha is spending a lot of money advertising on things like full page ads in Outside magazine. Good
luck to them, I hope they are successful. **** Ryan
> One happened by my shop a couple of weeks ago It rode nice, handled well, smooth over the bumps
> Heavy, lots of frontal area, will be hard to make go fast Seat looks like it was designed by X car
> guy from Detroit, way too complex for a bicycle Comes with most everything a person could want on
> a bike. Should sell for that reason alone. Speedy
>
> Ben wrote:
>
> > Has anyone ridden or seen up close the Bigha bike? It looks interesting. If you have one,
> > whatchathink?
> >
> > www.bigha.com
> >
> > Just wondering, Ben
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