Cargo Bikes

Not alfine normal gears

easier then!

Marginally

I guess the challenge is to hold the mech backwards for the wheel to drop .. a sram mech could help as it has a lock for that built in

A block of wood sounds easier though. You'd have to haul that everywhere.

Can you pop the front wheel off and tilt bike forward on stand? Or does that not work with bullitts

I guess, I’m just trying to make the what if scenario easier to manage

With mudguards and an alfine, this doesn't get the rear end high enough. It's quite a faff on your own, especially with a mid drive motor weight.

@Chalfie if i remember house bricks under each foot of the stand definitely helps. Don't think i'd want to carry housebricks around everywhere though.

Yoga blocks?

External gears are ok, if you've got an igh and belt drive your gonna make it, but it's gonna be unfun

Not sure which scales your using but tern gsd, esp the mk2 is not the lightest.

Plenty of e cargo in the 30 to 40 kg range. Under 30 kg is rare though, pretty much only Omnium and some other lighter duty machines.

Weight isn't super relavent though unless you are lifting it over stuff regularly.

When is a cheap alternative to the GSD coming along? I am waiting. Maybe i'll go second hand.

Anyone got the btwin one, saw the other day

Saw this the other day, looked a bit like a cheap ish tern?

https://www.mycle.co.uk/products/cargo-electric-bike?variant=42993509138674

A block of wood in a rear pannier/one of the panniers on the madjax box should be fine.
Leave it in the box when I go somewhere.

Interesting. I do wonder if better to plump for a second hand tern gsd though. Wouldn't be much more.

Don’t know what the second hand prices are like particularly, aren’t they usually around 4k ish…?

In euros around 3k

Advice needed - my belt drive has partially slipped off the rear cog a few times in the last week. I can get it back on by removing the wheel and resituating it, but obviously it's not ideal, particularly because it forces the enviolo cables to rotate into the highest gear - so I have to spin home each time it happens. Probably not great for the belt to do that.

Is it the belt being stretched that is causing it? It's done 2500 miles.

Gates belts should be good for a lot longer than that though obviously cargo-ing is more stressful for them than a solo bike. Do you have it tensioned correctly? And what is the "chainline" like? They are very sensitive to both

Cargo bike backflip

https://twitter.com/edfoc/status/1584490698979479553

Needs cargo...

Hello,

Been tasked with finding a cover for a Babboe Curve-E with the raincover on it, as its stored outside.

Anyone got any tips for large waterproof covers for Cargo Bikes? Its for our Office Bike!

the tension looks ok as does the chainline - it was @BrickMan who (i think) last did it, only a few months ago.

The belts and teeth usually have a central line which stops them shifting sideways. There is usually too low tension if it's able to come off. Maybe that could come from frame flex, I don't know.
Have you got a snubber installed?

Something special or can you anchor down a standard 3x4m tarpaulin available from the all the likely suspects, ToolStation, Screwfix, etc.?

Any decent motorbike cover will do.

Can I ask where you are storing the bike?

I tried my house insurance with little luck last year. Their main reason was because I didn’t own the lockup it was being stored in.