Cargo Bikes

Stock spokes are good (aside some 2020 production which have spokes made of cheese), stock Alex Supra rim (welded, higher end alloy, was designed for DH/enduro use when 26" was the popular size) and novatec hd hub are very good, basically the most ideal for the usage, wouldn't change these items unless you have to.
Sapim strong spokes into the above makes a very good wheel.
Another rim is the Ryde Andra 40 HD, have built about 5 of those this year and none seem to have exploded yet.

Someone buy this!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/155257130248?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=e7_3wbbvStC&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=wsQS6kPKSQ6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Have a look a tydomin's Omnium on Insta and his logic behind swapping to it from a Bullitt and then tell me why I should get a Bullitt anyway...

Buy one of @BrickMan s omniums!

I'd love to but can't justify it at the mo.

As a bullitt owner I can't really fault the logic behind the switch, you can just use the Omnium as your everyday bike with the added bonus of being able to load it up as and when. The bullitt is (or was before I fucked my back) my everyday ride because I'm using it everyday to haul the kids around anyway but there's no way I'd personally buy a bullitt if it wasn't for lugging the kids around or for work purposes.

Bullitt is great but it def feels like overkill somedays.

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Hi!

I generally ride both every week.

TL/DR omnium easy to live with. Bullit bit more hassle. On the whole most things can fit on the omnium, things that cant get a cab.

BUT if you're carrying bigger loads more regularly Bullit probably better. Often think id rather have a bullit then i get fucked off just getting the omium in and out of the house.

I can happily commute on the omium as a 'normal' bike the bullit less so. If I had a bullit it would defs be electric whereas the omnium is easily useable in analogue form.

Clear as mud answer huh. I think it'd be different if I had a garage/side access to my house. Omnium is more bike like, bullit is more of a tool.

Contravening all of this I'm in the process of sorting out a motor for the omnium and just need to sort out a battery solution.

Bullitt can carry a more - a lot more - with surprising ease... especially with the right box. Bullitt needs a motor to be truly useful. If you're planning to regularly move a bullitt up and down normal stairs, or into and out of a house, you're going to be disappointed. No matter how badly you want a bullitt or want this to work, it won't. A bullitt cannot live inside a house except in some unusual, atypical scenarios.

Never used an omnium and can't speak to its load carrying or domestic attributes.

As an aside, i think i have the best cargo box available for the Bullitt, available from Splendid Cycles in portland. It's in the thread, but i've attached an image here. I placed rails on the front that fit my Ortlieb's for serious cargo space.

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yeh pretty much agree with you there, omnium works marginally better for city living. I kept the bullit in the living room for a bit. wasnt ideal. Omnium at least mounts on wall

I'd have an Omnium over my Bullitt for 99% of everyday usage, the weight and flat bed would just be so much easier to live with, but for that 1% when I need to transport two people or a sofa or a quarter ton of construction materials I don't think it would cut it.

I moved a sofa the other day with the omnium (hour long cycle so not just round the corner!). Have had two people on it too. Piece of piss ! :-)

For a quarter ton of construction materials I think I’d say E assist would be essential- probably feel more confident with a heavier duty bike like an urban arrow too…

250kg is above the ‘capacity’ for all of these bikes anyways

Colour me impressed :)

Talk to me about these rails! Pics?

Have put a well-used-but-free Melia toddler seat (the polystyrene kind) on the main components sales page in case anyone here wants it

There I was enjoying my trip to downham who watch my daughter swim. Clunk.
Eh?
Oh. Battery running out.
Fortunately I’d got up the hill to downham way.
The ride home was interesting, eeking out battery for the up hill bit from bell Green. The battery gave up 100m from home.

Tl;dr I wish I had a tandem

Any cheaper alternatives to the official Bullitt child seat out there?

Got some of the new Omnium folding boxes on order for as soon as they land, let me know if you need one.

I’ll report back how the dog gets on with it

Not really, if you're going to be doing a lot of kid hauling you might be better off fitting a box.

This.
The child seat is great but it's exposed without sides and the seatbelts aren't great.

Is the danger more perception than actual threat?

With just the seatbelts, they're not likely to fall out or anything, are they?

How old is your kid?
I had a 10 and 4 year old sharing the seat, no sides, and the bigger one holding on to the younger one. While bombing south London hills.
It’s not ideal.

It'll only be the six year old in there. The ten year old can ride his own bike.

I'll strap him in with extra belts if required. Really don't want a box

Friend helped me pick this up. Need to decide whether to go basket/box on the front or webbing

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