Cargo Bikes

Yeah, for a "weeride". At full capacity the front is for shopping / activities, small child on the weeride and large child on tag along.

Not my picture but I believe it’s an older Lava Dome

..haha, so cool!! Love the picture..

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Damn you. Got me thinking now...!

Worse still, the Marin with the clean break on the chainstay could be a practice for welding.....

What’s the learning curve like for MIG?

Someone in the most oop of north Scotland has a Donky listed on Gumtree...

What’s the learning curve like for MIG?

Half an hour

Urgh don’t say thaaaaat!

With the access to cheap/free scrap metal at the scrapyard, this is a horribly tempting proposition.

So.... cost of a basic mig welder.....

Mine was around £100, could have been less.

It's like a glue gun for metal. A bit of YouTube and an afternoon of practice and you'd be right...

I'm surprised more people on here haven't tried it. There are loads of examples out there if you Google diy cargo bike.

Took me a couple of months but I only had my garden and an angle grinder to help and newly born child to distract me.

£100 new or used? Had a quick look and prices vary wildly.

I have time and probably a fair access to material from scrap... but not power tools. I’d also be relegated to garden -building outside so maybe I should park this til it warms up.

New. I did some research at the time, but can't really remember what I learnt...

This looks close. Mine uses gas for shielding, which is better, I think...

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F123472227621

Ah ok thanks. Looks similar to the ones I found at a glance.

I tried to search about mig welding, and all I found was a number of threads poopooing it in lieu of tig, especially because of lack of temperature control on thin-walled bike frame tubes. Much confused now.

Stick to hi-ten steel.
heh

Yeah, it's not going to be a thing of beauty. You want the back end to be low end gas pipe steel, and the new stuff I used was just basic mild steel from bandq.

You wouldn't make a bike frame out of this stuff, cos you'd just buy a cheap bike instead. The thing is, there are no cheap cargo bike frames, so diy ING it makes more sense.

I litterarly have no metal work experience, but generally like making things, and managed to build this one without too much trouble. It's now my proudest possession!

Sure, but it looks way usable. Serious rep.

That is cool AF.

Got a mate who has a bike orientated metal shop to play in up here in Scotland and he has been turning out various carry stuff type bikes, two omnium style bikes with a 20" under the front and a long higher up rack and then a mad 90's MTB style paint job. He's a very talented guy but unfortunately doesn't build to order, unless you want something ground breaking in which case he'll have a go.

I'm just waiting on a massive trailer (200x90cm) turning up, very concerned the courier company has wrecked it, lost it or just plain can't be bothered delivering it.

Found I'm using the eBullitt constantly for everything, my previously most used bike (a 3 speed 700c disc commuter with mudguards and a front rack) hasn't moved in 20 days, car hasn't moved in 10 days etc. Bullitt for all the things. eBullitt + offensively massive trailer should help me never use the car again in the city area (but keeping car anyway because everything else I do is at least a 100 mile each way journey and up here theres often no other viable time vs cost solution that isn't a diesel estate car as much as I'd like there to be).

+1 for DIY!

MIG-welding does not get you the nicest welds, but it is way easier to handle for a beginner. A good set of files and some elbow grease and you are good to go.

What e-bike system is that?

http://www.binova-flow.de

I am quite happy with this system. Big Q-factor takes a while to get used to but runs very silent and smooth. Not cheap though but im lucky to know a guy working there who gave it to me for testing. It definitely multiplies the occasions this bike is being used.

I'm planning MkII of my cargo bike

Think I'm going to make out of ally instead of steel this time.

40mm box section running straight through, with a changeable front rack like the Donky bike.

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Badass. I’m in talks with someone selling cargo’s on ebay that look like a refined version of the instructables, otherwise I’d totally consider asking you to sort me out a frame like that.

whats mk1 like?

Sorry, don't think I'd be building to sell!

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That mallet tho...

This is cool, and excuse my utter ignorance (no frame building or welding knowledge at all), but could you do this instead, putting chainstays in where the blue line is and getting rid of the red-scribbled ones?

If not, do tell me where to go - I'm curious if it could be done or not?

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