Cargo Bikes

Ah, that's more like it :)

There’s a Yuba Mundo in Hereford, £200 starting bid. I believe these are massive rivals to XC.

And you can talk to it about current affairs...

The mundo looks like great value, but rim brake only. There's a big dummy for £1,500 on eBay too

I took mine round the freecycle ride on Saturday. Carried my daughter and pulled her bike along with the wheel in a pannier at one point. Didn't see many other cargo bikes, was expecting to see more. Lots of cool comments about the bike though. Saw a bullitt with a whacking great speaker system in the front, very impressed and completely outdid my little JBL flip Bluetooth speaker. Couple of box bikes on 2 or 3 wheels and that was it...

No disc? But you could get some mounts brazed on I bet. Maybe someone like @PhilDAS can do it easily?

Maybe a change of forks for something stronger like on-one rigids like on mine? They have disc mounts.

Probably :)

the newer ones come with disc tabs / brakes. I've got disc on the front of mine (and am in the process of sorting them for the rear)

@benp1 we were there on our Douze on Saturday! Our 5 1/2 year old managed x2 laps on his Islabike Cnoc which was pretty good going. We rode across from Ealing with his bike mounted on the back of the Douze and he rode on his own once we were in Hyde Park. He did around around 18 miles in the end. Not as many cargo bikes as last year. Saw x2 Bullitt's - pink one with the speaker system (LBC logos on it?) and a dark green one. And then a few 3-wheeled Christiana's... Loadsa' other crazy bikes around though including a steam-punk flying pig tall bike... :)

The rear rack(?) brace looks pretty beefy.

What about a clamp/plate fixed to that with a u-brake/similar? Usually enough for tandems, so should work for a cargo bike on the rear, right? Although just a front disc and rear v-brake is probably good enough.

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I saw the flying pig tall bike a couple of times, it was good. Apart from the odd lycra clad numpty on a road bike trying to go fast and weave (unsafely) through when there were kids and normal folks just enjoying themselves

Sounds like he did well. We managed about 1.5 laps before the roads started opening up and it stopped being as safe. We took too long to leave the house. Hoping to head back for car free day in 6 weeks

The biggest challenge for me was getting there. It's too far for the kids to cycle, and too far for me to cycle with them on my cargo bike without electric assist. I took the train to Kings X but the trains weren't running properly so I took 2 there and 2 back. Was more stressful thank it shoul have been with 3 people and 3 bikes when there's only 1 adult and 1 bike is over 7ft long and weighs a lot! At least it was possible, couldn't have taken the tube and my cargo bike is too big to put on the car

Pink Bullitt might have been @Mikenetic

Can't be that many pink Bullitts around!

Luckily for us there was an organised ride-in from Ealing, but lots of idiots on bikes in amongst that lot and painfully slow at times, but no easy task stopping traffic (who never want to stop!) and negotiate junctions/lights etc. Hats off to the Marshalls/Guides, they're pretty good and everyone is kept safe.

We were actually happier later-on when it opened up a bit. Our first lap started around Midday and you can imaging how busy it was then. I love the irony of many parents who tell their kids not to do something and actually do it themselves. Our boy almost got squished by many-a-stupid-parent. The Douze was a nice big deflector at times to stop being cutting across us.

It's a great day out and would recommend it to anyone with a vague interest in bikes... and hopefully we'll bump into some more cargo-esq-bikes next year!

Has anyone here used the velo orange steering stabiliser? (http://freshtripe.co.uk/velo-orange-wheel-stabilizer-large-downtube-31-8mm-diameter/)

I want to put something on my Big Dummy to stop steering flop when the bike is parked up on the centre stand, the front wheel is in the air and flops around, it's very annoying. The VO stabiliser looks pretty good for this but I'm concerned it might limit steering travel. I do have to turn the bars quite a bit to get through a tight barrier near me and I don't want it to limit this, I also don't want to stretch the spring.

I only need it when I park up and would prefer to avoid a bodge. Something like a steer stopper would be great but it's a lot of cash (https://steerstopper.com/)

Any thoughts?

Can’t help currently, but have a ,Hebie Steerer Damper‘, never mounted, but will do in the next days on wife bike.

That's close enough to the VO version that any input you have would be really helpful

The two things I need to know are
1 - with the front wheel off the ground does it stop steering flop?
2 - can you turn the bars full lock either side without causing problems to the spring/device?

I don't need a steering stabiliser for riding, I need it for when I stop and unweight the front

I have some generic one that came with my Mundo. It keeps the wheel straight even when the bike is stored vertically. I've turned the bars 90 degrees with no issue of spring back etc.

Not sure of your setup, but if you have a load of weight on your forks (pannier racks etc) you might have some issues

That's excellent to know. Does it look just like the VO and Hebie ones?

My work isn't loaded up with anything, one day but at the moment it'll make the front too wide to store it where I keep it. So for now it's not a problem

Looks a lot like the Herbie ones

The one I got on scamazon prime a few months back was a little cheaper but identical. I’ll edit here when I find the link again. It works fine.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Prophete-Universal-Steering-Damper-Multi-Colour/dp/B005JR1PPI

Kids 7 and 4, Bullitt foldable seat + canopy.

Height-wise the 7yo has outgrown the canopy frame, particularly wearing a helmet. They still managed to squeeze under the detachable top cover (with backpacks) for a few kms trip home in pouring rain.

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How wide is your frame, out of interest?

This is the L&H canopy, the canopy tube frame extends outside of the width of bike frame. Internal space between arm rests is 49cm, so I'd say there's a bit over 50cm usable sitting space.

I'm thinking of getting a cargo bike for shopping but I live in Brighton so it would need to be able to tackle hills.
Looking at the Christiania style three wheeled versions but they don't seem to have a lot of gearing.
And the two wheeled, courier, style ones are well out my price range.
Anything I'm missing or suggestions?

a crust fork on any old mtb would be the cheapest if its just for shopping
https://crustbikes.com/products/clydesdale-fork/

I did see this setup on this thread. Looks ace!
I would need a larger capacity though. To expand, I'm after a larger volume to carry, possibly those little people things in a year or so as well as kilos of veg from the allotment.