Cargo Bikes

I have a mallet, a small hammer, and a normal hammer.

You are in need of a big hammer, that is not a mallet

Yeah I think so.

I worked out I might be able to use the drop kerb as a pivot point to do stuff.

In other news I have some cheap 5point harnesses that didn't work (I'm inept). Amey has made them work.
If you want them they're free collection / you pay the postage.

Never seen this before, it's a cool design:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313979354211?_trkparms=amclksrc%3DITM%26aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160811114145%26meid%3D7953e965af6340109e393ddd21c3270f%26pid%3D100667%26rk%3D2%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D125225704714%26itm%3D313979354211%26pmt%3D0%26noa%3D1%26pg%3D2334524&_trksid=p2334524.c100667.m2042

Living on the edge, man

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After riding nothing but my bullitt since getting it in February I rode fixed in to town for work today. I seriously thought I'd forgotten how to ride a bike for the first 10 minutes, it all came back but bloody hell it was awful to begin with.

Haha. Yes, classic symptom of cargo bike riders! Is your bullitt an ebike too? Makes the initial shock even worse 😂

Your brain will get used to the switch after a couple of rounds of swapping :)

Yeah, ebike as well. Happy to hear it's a common occurrence and I'm not destined to just being able to ride dad bikes from now on 😂

My other bike the steering feels insanely twitchy.

After my first shift riding a cargo bike years ago I jumped back on my fixed and immediately crashed it in to a wall.

Haha! Glad to hear it’s not just Liz that has issues with swapping back to her CX bike after riding the cargo. Every time she rides it she swears it’s shrunk and steering is loose.

Yes! This is me.

I have only ridden one other bike than my omnom in the last two years. It was my brakeless track bike that I no longer have... I swear it felt like it was made of solid wood, including the wheels, had a 3 inch shorter top tube than before, and 10 degree steeper angles! I was fucking petrified! It only just began to feel like I could actually ride it and stop it after about an hour of riding. I previously rode it for work every day for years without a second thought. 😂

Put it on the stand and then put a tool box or strong cardboard box under the bb /down tube area so that back end is higher off ground, back wheel then drops out and wiggle to side. If you get the right sized box you don't have to lift bike again.
Uneven ground and a big weight in front also works

Guess who forgot the wheel/cafe lock was still on on the GSD when setting off from Screwfix yesterday in the rain, with an annoyed toddler on the back, shearing the valve stem clean off? Had a clear run in front of me, so attempted a dismount from kickstand/set off in one movement job. Otherwise if it was just getting it off the stand, I would have felt the resistance. But, "crack" "PSSSSH" "fuck".

That was a miserable walk home.

Positives; it was the front and not the back wheel, I didn't break any spokes, the screwfix was only a mile from home, I had packed the Hamax poncho so mini_com was actually fairly chipper and totally dry on the walk.

My wife did a similar thing. Motorbikes have that yellow elastic thing to remind them of the disk lock. Maybe a similar thing should be used for café locks?

Yeah, I have a disc alarm (as yet unused) that has the same lanyard. Problem is I know I won't bother putting it on. So will have to use the reminder of walking home in the rain pushing the bastard thing to prevent future episodes.

An ideal solution would be linking the locking kickstand to it somehow. Won't dismount with the wheel lock still on. But that would be uber complex.

Managed to ride my fixed bike much better today but I think my body has already been conditioned to the cruisey comfort of the cargo world. 😂

Picked up a new desk for my home office today.

Rookie error putting it too close to the bars, with every pothole it bounced a bit closer too :)

Loving the omnium!

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Used to get that all the time when I was trying to stack stuff on top of a Bullitt with a big slippery metal box. Riding one handed whilst holding your load away from your brakes is an essential cargo bike rider skill!

DIY cargo trailer update: In the interest of lessening the possibility of load spillage (let’s say 40 kilos of gardening soil on ill-advised corner speed, for instance) I replaced the previous axle with a threaded stainless rod. On the now extending stubs I added some close fitting emt in order to hopefully strengthen that area, we’ll see how long it lasts.

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I like to hang my bike's ass off a curb to do this.

Is the ‘new’ omnium kickstand much better than the Ursus / classic omnom stand?

I find the classic quite unstable, but that could just be to do with it’s positioning in relation to the load etc

The new one (2019>) is great, buy it and put the regular stand back on a hybrid or something. It won't tolerate rider sitting on it for a smoke/hang out for the ultimate mess life insta opportunities, but it will hold the bike up while you strap a dishwasher to it.