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amey
New tern gsd mk2.
Its somehow worse than mk1 to work on.
In order to remove rear wheel, for you know, a puncture.
Have to take off the kid tent, the brackets, then the axle still won't come out so need to remove the big black metal step that goes over the frames permanent step (why is there two?), but to take that off, there is a 13mm nut trapped behind one of the mounts for the kickstand, so have to loosen kickstand and allow bike to wobble around on some pieces of wood? Or you need a hoist.
This isn't for real?
Imagine some poor fam out in the wild trying to do this with kids. Almost no cargo is easy to change a tyre on, but this new mk2 gsd takes the cake!
Thought maybe you can do this whilst it's sat on its arse, as per marketing. Can't get to bolts in this position.
Also bike is 3 weeks old, 150 miles on it. "new" kickstand already has play and sticks in a halfway position?
On positive news, saw a "triobike" yesterday, close copy of a bullitt with a brose motor. Rides solid, super close in feel to a Douse. Build quality seemed ok, time will tell if they know how to make a frame, but overall was impressed, price also good.