Cargo Bikes

I have. But I had and early one with the shit steering rod...

That center of gravity thing is the cargo bike equivalent to "you need a steel bike for touring".

Have you previously feared for your life when carrying heavy weights on your Omnium?

I've certainly felt a fair amount of flex from the front end when loaded up (admittedly probably close to or exceeding the maximum weight specifications), and it's not as stable, or as nice to ride as a bullitt, when loaded.

Omnium for all the things usage, eBullitt for when you need to get that free fridge/freezer back home that you found in an alleyway on way home.

An empty Omnium is nicer to ride than an empty Bullitt though, front end really likes a bit of weight on it, even just the floor + side panels is enough to improve it.

Fair enough. TBH it was more of a reply on a previous comment, as if the higher platform on the Omnium would somehow be an surmountable obstacle to carrying weight, when it's obviously not the case.

Looks like yuba are replacing the mondo : https://www.yubaeurope.com/en/bikes-add-ons/kombi/115/kombi

Fixed a puncture yesterday- first one in 3 years!
Rim tape had slipped and the inner tube poke through a spoke hole.

Caused by Douze cost saving exercise, using narrow rim tape from China instead of 22mm Velox.

Also changed a broken spoke and trued the rear wheel.

Actually straightforward enough to remove the rear wheel, I thought the Gates belt, disc brake, geared hub would get in the way but it all came out easily.

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Nice. I built my XC’s entire rear wheel with Spokes From Ryan as well (the ‘new’ rear from old stock ebay hub/rim). It’s been absolutely fine and their price and speed of postage was excellent.

Trued the absolutely horrid front wheel a bit today. Still wobbles but only within 1mm now. Issue is flat spots on the rim. Initially the ‘stache bars felt weird but it was much much nicer once I loaded the front rack with some bits.

What wasn’t nice was a tyre-width-sized piece of sign with thin staple/nails sticking out that wrapped itself perfectly around my rear tyre.

Somehow, so far, so good. No puncture. Much to my surprise. I expect a slow flat by tomorrow though, my luck isn’t that good.

Can you explain more on what's up with the GSD?

QC Issues.

I handle warranty claims at my shop and we've found one or more of the following issues on roughly half the GSDs we've built (~130 total)

• Brake mounts require excessive facing
  
• Brake mounts are welded on crooked and can't be fixed with any amount of facing
  
• Rear hydro line crushed by motor casing during factory assembly (S10)
  
• Rear shift housing crushed by motor casing during factory assembly (S10)
  
• Drive unit mounting bolts being severely under torqued
  
• Drive unit mounting bolts being over torqued to the point in which they break the lips off the motor that hold the bolt head in place, making them spin freely when you try to loosen them
  
• Derailleur hanger not sitting flush with dropout due to paint and getting destroyed by the thru axle after a few wheel removals/installations
  
• Threads on Enviolo axle bolts stripped during factory assembly (S00)
  
• Heads of rear caliper bolts stripped during assembly
  
• Dust cap of freedhub body slowly working itself loose while riding, resulting in the cassette being pushed far enough out to mess with shifting and eventually seizing the freehub body all together (S10)
  
• Speedometer cables spec'd too short, resulting in premature failure due to the stress of coming out of the drive unit at a right angle
  
• Top half of aft Power Pack harness welded on crooked, resulting in a very tight if not impossible fitting for the aft Power Pack (this seems to be an issue specifically when installing keyed-alike systems)
  
• Spotty welding of the rear rack.
  
  

Hope the helps. The bike is fine once the QC issues have been addressed, but I just wish they'd put some money back into having them manufactured at a factory with higher standards.

Fair enough. TBH it was more of a reply on a previous comment, as if the higher platform on the Omnium would somehow be an surmountable obstacle to carrying weight, when it's obviously not the case.

It makes a difference, but I'd recon a lot of the folks on here riding Omniums were used to previously carrying weight on porteur racks mounted to track bikes and don't really notice. Having the weight between the wheels rather than above the front wheel is objectively more stable for carry any sort of weight. Bullitts are also a lot stiffer than Omniums when loaded down.

Is it a huge safety concern? No. Is it in an objective advantage? Yes.

Looks like yuba are replacing the mondo

Oh look, it's even available in Totally-not-trying-to-be-confused-for-a-GSD-blue

This is exactly why I hate the internet... now I need trispokes on my Bullitt.

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Would anyone be interested in a bit of a cargo project? Its from the same guy who has built a ton of homemade looking cargo frames on ebay. Its an omnium style frame but a couple of the welds need redoing as after stripping the paint back they look pretty sketchy. If anyone is keen it'd be a real cheap way to get hold of a cargo

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa......

@user67706akajimmythegrin

Is that the main man Malcom???

I’d bet so

@spicknspangled did you get this from Malcom in St Helens, if so pdlouche can happily vouch the weld quality :-)

Oi.

Hell yeah it's the very same

Hence project

“Never had a weld break on my bikes” he said. “Any problems let me know” he said.

His doggos were awesome though. Nice as Malcolm and his lady are, I really wouldn’t recommend his bikes.

Could be worse. Could be a Tern.

Funny that, he told me the exact same thing. This is the headtube weld

Reshape the join and weld it properly and it would probably not be too bad

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Have you got a full pic and sizes maybe?
Cheers

Holy Hole-y shit.

If that's the job that's been done on the headtube (a fairly noticeable and crucial joint) then what kinda effort do you think the other joints have seen?

I can see green paint, grey primer and white, is that filler? That is 100% trying to polish a turd. That's not thinking your welds are good when they aren't, that's knowing you've majorly fucked that up but hiding it so you can still sell the thing to someone who won't know how bad it is.

looks like it was done with a stick / MIG welder. awful

Poor welding is one thing. Welding is a skill and it's not everyone can make a good job of it.

It's the covering it up, especially a hole like that, with filler that takes this guy from 'poor workmanship' to 'cunt'.

People are using cargo bikes to ferry their infant children around ffs.