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I first saw IKEA’s SLADDA cruiser a year ago — in Sweden. I was attending the equivalent of Comic Con for design nerds: IKEA’s Democratic Design Days. It was awesome. And the fact that IKEA was now making a bike was the cherry on top. It was so cute, so very IKEA. I imagined pedaling it over to the farmers market to pick up the season’s bounty, loading it in my basket, and then peddling home to make tomato galette and mint and snap pea salad.

When, a year later, my bike finally arrived, I was giddy with excitement. And then I opened the box and realized: I’d have to assemble it myself. Well, of course, you might be saying. This is IKEA; some assembly required is basically their company motto.

So, I set about putting together and then taking my new cruiser out for a ride. Here’s how it went.

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