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  • Anyone have a 'Dolly' cargo bike?

    How unbelievably shit is the main centre stand!!??? I mean Tern GSD stock stands are garbage and shouldn't be on a £4.5k+ machine, but the Dolly ones are worse. Even on gravity level + skimmed concrete, the stand does not make the bike stay upright with the stock supplied tyres inflated to 80psi (what they need to be to support a 80kg rider + kiddos). You have to deflate the tyres to 60psi in order for it to sort of stand up, but if there is any wind, it will blow forwards off the stand and bang into everything.
    No adjustment in the stand, and short of making some adapter plates no way of rising it.

    Rest of it is OK, steering max angle is tighter than a Bullitt, same as a Douze I would reckon. However its super knife edge feeling front wheel tucks under if you try to go around a corner at any kind of speed. There are 3 different steering holes on the bellcrank to play with, in the middle its dicey, in the fast setting its outright dangerous, in the 'slow' setting, its almost slow enough.

    Have a customer who'd like to convert to assist, Dolly did make one with a different front fork that allows a fwd motor to just bolt in. However they refuse to sell one aftermarket, suggesting to just buy an entire bike, fair enough if its a mid drive and the frame and its supporting mounts are different, but its not.

    On the upside, the kid box is excellent, big enough, tall sides, you can mount a baby carrier in the bottom, good twin seat, floppy but good rain protection and cost is low, so not all bad to be fair to it.

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