Cargo Bikes

You are right. It surely must be possible to make them non-slip. Some of them have tarmac on them

Authorities often go around just before a closed road bike race/ running race/charity event with people walking briskly and put down basically skateboard grip tape on them. Can last upto a year.

Alternatively mix cheap gloss paint with random sharp aggregate and paint it on when dry, always works for us with bike trails that have slippery wooden features (and stone sometimes).

dislocated my thumb dropping my Bullitt on one of these a few years back, fortunately child had been dropped off at nursery 5 min prior.

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Ok. Here we go.it is happening etc and so on.

Bike dropped off this morning, hoping for a motor and battery by the weekend. Very excited and nervous about it all.

I am eagerly awaiting your report back. I am on the verge of copying you.

Is at besbike. Needs the brackets for the battery delivering and we are go.

Dropper post with a bolt clamp?

That’d be ideal I agree - only thing is that dropper posts seem quite pricey. But I wonder if it’s the best solution, thanks.

why do they put slippery drain covers at road junctions? nearly went arse over this evening, what with wind, rain & man-hole cover

just sayin

I got chatting to a Dutch motorcyclist in the queue waiting for the Harwich ferry a few years ago. I asked him what he thought of UK roads expecting him to say the surfaces were shit, etc. But the only thing he mentioned were the manhole covers. It's not so much that they don't have them in the Netherlands or elsewhere, just he felt the UK ones were so much more random in their positioning and their design, whereas Dutch ones all tended to be similar and in a line, and not in really hazardous places.

As the other posts say, it would be possible to make the surfaces non-slip. Just not a priority for UK councils / Highways England - DGAF.

In Germany, near where my MiL lives at least, they tend to be round with a circle of tarmac in the middle, like this:

just he felt the UK ones were so much more random in their positioning and their design, whereas Dutch ones all tended to be similar and in a line, and not in really hazardous places.

He's probably contrasting old roads/streets to new ones. The Netherlands have built an absolutely huge amount of road mileage since the war. You'll find irregular stuff in old town centres, too, although there, too, they may have rebuilt old subterranean infrastructure.

Dropper without remote can be cheaper and work well for your needs, KS dropzone for example https://kssuspension.com/product/dropzone/

On the off chance anyone saw this and thought 'that looks like a good deal' don't buy it - Its an insurance write-off that the scrappy is trying to flip. It did belong to @cake but he was hit by a van whilst riding and the whole thing is bent and probably will crack under you
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/144309510165

Why did it get scrapped with all the parts on it?

As I said, the whole bike was an insurance write-off, the insurers sent it to be scrapped as is, but this cheeky scrappy is trying to make extra cash from it beyond its scrap value.

Has this been posted before? It's from reddit. Fun little project

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/144978/?offset=2300#14643370 ;)

haha my quick check of the past 5 or so pages obviously wasnt enough! How did you find it?

I actually looked for a source after you posted it on the eBay topic (using Google search) and ended on this topic :)

Hey spotter. Have you alerted eBay to this?

I would but Im not sure how I would prove it

ha I was hoping no one noticed. Here is the reddit post I saw it from, he's made a few other cool project bikes

Needs the brackets for the battery delivering and we are go.

When are you expecting this to come? I think I'm possibly almost as excited about it now as you are.

Its here!

I've got it set, it's definitely interesting when the pedals are pushed and the motor kicks in.
So far would definitely recommend besbikes if you lack the time or skills or both.

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I think I could possibly do it myself, just about, but the time is the issue.

Moar pics please!

you can

but the time is the issue.

but yeah

welcome to come and have a look at mine if you are in London