Cargo Bikes

Catan titanium Cargobike, a lightweight Sport Utility Vehicle...hmmm

Some steering linkage inspiration for you @Hulsroy in case you wanna try out something a bit different (and use 5 headsets).

Pfft, Ritchey. y u no Chris King bling

Was thinking exactly the same! :) Mind you Chris King x5 certainly adds up!

Would love to know how it rides...

However with a 100kg load it will still slow as f**k uphill...

With a Shimano XT 1×11 drivetrain, 27.5″ rear wheel & 180mm hydraulic disc brakes, it would retail for 8800€.

lol

I like the linkage at the front, but I think it would have been more beneficial in a 20" front wheel / cargo on top configuration (à la Bilenky / Omnium), where it would lower the center of gravity of the load?

the flex in that bike scares me

@Lolo how would raising the load lower it's center of gravity?

I didn't word this really well... What I meant was in the context of a SWB cargo bike design that features a loading bay over a 20" wheel, that linkage replacing the regular forks could lower said loading bay by 4 inches or so.

Apparently the steering linkage isn't so unique, Retrovelo have been using it as well.

Come to think of it so has Batman on one of his motorcycles (or maybe not and I'm just imagining that).

It looks rad and all and definitely could carry some light weight stuff but I doubt it could haul the same load a Bullitt could.

Flexibility and a slopping cargo area aren't the best qualities of a cargo bike. And couplers?

Variations on the same idea have been explored:

Steering hubs also:

I need one of these.

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13.382kg
Impressive.

The back end has something Corima-esque about it but it's the profile of the carbon tubes of the loading area that does it for me. Super slick.

Awesome looking machine... But with gearing like that it won't go uphill very well and with small discs like that won't stop downhill very well... :) Love it though!

How much can it carry?

So they shaped an aero carbon cargo bike, without the carbon profile actually being aero or less prone to drag and wind resistance? We need some expertise in here @Jonny69

Chassis outriggers look aero section but are pointing upwards. I don't think ANYONE'S chassis in that championship can create THAT much upwash. Aero section steering rod looks bigger in cross section than the front suspension pushrod on the [undisclosed energy drinks brand] F1 car and will create lift at the front where it dips up. Must take a lot of load at speed then. They're obviously, OBVIOUSLY trying to create outwash with that front end, create a vortex to kick it over and around the rider, landing back behind his legs where it can feed the rear diffuser. Sharp moulding line direction change on those chassis tubes will create terrible separation, we're talking like 2018 McLaren levels of separation. They'll need some flow conditioners and flaps to sort that out = extra unnecessary drag. Bargeboard area looks underdeveloped. See the opening there for the S duct in the nose - it's tiny but it is there and the photo is deliberately taken at this angle so that can't see the outlet up on the top surface energising the air hitting the rider. They need to work on their size zero concept. Conventional spoked wheel potentially says a lot about aero correlation issues between their CFD models and wind tunnel. I can't wait to see it run with some flow viz on, it'll tell us the whole story.

I weighed my mini maxi with some baggage scales this morning, just under 15kg, not bad

Would rep, the line between critique and parody was beautifully ambiguous.

Lovely Ti Omnium

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nice

Do not understand why you didn't post this bike from the same site as well though
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Pretty sure it's been posted here before.. Also not my style.

Here's my Ti Mini Maxi

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