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(clearly home made) yoke
it's not, it's a production cargo bike with the mods by a good professional framebuilder
source - was my bike
platypus-
Ah amazing, it was only the forks that I thought were home modified going by the finish of the welding (admittedly way better than mine!). Did you mod the forks to get a disc on the front? I've gather that the frame is a Babboe- do you know which model?
Really looking forward to getting it up and running, its currently stripped so I can treat all the rust and then will be rebuilt :)
Jackytwoshoes
As I start getting this beauty sorted I’m struck by its slightly funky handling. Maybe all cargo bikes have funky handling, but something jumps out at me: the (clearly home made) yoke for the steering at the front is 80mm from rotational centre to the rose joint, whereas under the handlebars that distance is 60mm. This gives you an uneven leverage- if you turn the bars loads, the wheel turns by not so much. Is this a standard cargo thing? It feels weird to me