Cargo Bikes

Ebay as a company sell this or a seller on their platform sells it through ebay?

If former interesting. If later what thr sort of dodge ones do is start a new company every so often and avoid their uk retail responsibility. No idea on that brand but have seen first hand hundreds of junk e bikes and junk batteries, so many have very convincing uk retail websites, rohs stickers etc, but still fake burn your house down garbage.
Doesn't mean yours is, but just beware vast majority are junk and these sellers will go to good length to hide that fact.

Most recent example is a brand called "eskute" look almost like a cube, have a genuine bafang mid drive in them. But frame and fork are trash quality, very questionable fork construction to the point we rejected pdi'ing the bike and suggested they return it. Steel steerer, but had so much flex, IN THE STEERER! that I rejected it as defective/dangerous.
Brakes are fake Chinese domestic knock off of entry level shimano, gears actually were fine.
"eskute" is in the higher price point of bad bikes, the genuine bafang had me fooled for about 20 mins into it until I started really looking at it.

Beware people.

This screams 'on here'

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Very excited for what this could mean for e-Cargo:

https://bikerumor.com/pinion-mission-on-e-edrive-is-a-true-ebike-transmission-motor-gearbox-in-one/

I like this.

Effigear have done something similar in partnership with Valeo, although this looks neater and smaller. Not sure it will be seen outside a few relatively niche German brands though...

I've always thought this would be the obvious route to go for Shimano as well. Very interesting.

maybe im a Luddite but for Shimano would this really be that better integrated then steps and di2 alfine?

Hard (for me) to believe this is mostly nursery run miles, but there you go. I seem to have been one of the luckier ones with GSD quality control issues.

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Looking to buy a Bosch charger for my Urban Arrow. Any leads? Considering selling Urban Arrow shorty £1600?

same! no issues, although have booked service for Monday at LBS. I think my mileage just crossed 3k miles

Let me know which LBS and how it goes as not too keen on hemorrhaging more cash at FC next time. Although I think I'll be doing most of the mechanical servicing from now on.

The other day I saw an omium with a suspension fork online somewhere. Was it on here? If not did anyone else spot it?

Was on paradise cycles Instagram iirc

https://fb.watch/lk1c-FOSe0/

sorry for fb link, cant find just the video!

That's the one. Very cool. Thanks

Ah yeah. I'd forgotten about that one. Clever way of doing it

This should definitely be here...
https://youtu.be/H8zUOAGObc0

basically @Dick

Phenolic ply has finally arrived, no time to do much last night, apart from a couple of strategic cuts to fit the boards in the garage (lack of space).
Thanks for the good ideas provided in the previous pages... The recycled exterior ping pong table was by far my favorite, but nothing in eBay close enough from home at the moment. I quite liked the raw ply approach, with oil treatment but knowing myself it would have suffered and had a short life, so premature replacement wouldn't have been that eco friendly (with me at least) in the end. Phenolic ply is identical to the original stuff, so if I don't f**k it up, it should look "intended" rather than bodged or improvised; maybe a good thing vis-à-vis other road users, when carrying kids? Not many cargo bikes where we are...

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Bike is otherwise mechanically sound finally (still need to service front wheels, and I've got a couple bits coming in the post)
Maybe an inaugural ride with the kids on Sunday?

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Regarding "electrification" I've no idea if this wheel is worth looking into. Google didn't return much info when I've entered the reference written on the hub. Slight feeling this may end up with a massive shopping list (starting with the battery) and become too expensive for what is likely to be a pretty basic motor? No experience at all with this...

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Looks like the bog standard ali express.. has it got a motor rating on it?

You can buy a KT controller pretty cheap £30 or so, just need to know the rating of the motor to size the controller..

I'm just starting a battery project and have spare cells, DM me for more info. Could do a decent 20aH custom battery for £350.

google search brings up this:
https://www.amazon.ca/Electric-Conversion-Brushless-Gearless-KT-LCD3/dp/B09K3XL5DN
Looks like a 48v kt controller setup

Yeah looks about right, so you can run up to 40A controller. However, i'd err on the side of caution and put a smaller controller in, incase the motor is rated less. 30A will have plenty of punch..

Can also build a 48V battery. Have these EIG cells that are A5 paper size / 9mm thick, you could make a false floor to install them.

Boss is at Eurobike right now. Apparently it's not yet licensed in the States, but could be end of 2024. Tout Terrain is one of the companies making bikes with it already (not cargo sadly) so hopefully I'll get to lay hands on it next year.