Cargo Bikes

Just helped him convert his to electric.. he's pimped it a bit

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^ and ^^ are both sick, love them

Le Petite Porteur have just done a min version too:https://www.instagram.com/p/CuBVpMdove_/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

Very cool. Love the lefty.
What's the deal with the drive chain, do you just manually change gear?

He was just cobbling it together with old bits so ran it single speed on a casette. Think he's going to put an IGH on there

What is going on with the rear dropouts?? Sketchy disc conversion?

Rodford built too
https://www.rodfordbuilt.co.uk/

I met the chap behind Onus Cargo a few weeks ago.... lovely lad. I'm really into what he is doing with the modular sidecar focused towards trades-people. Anyone know if he's on the forum?

thats rad

it's the guy in Hackney Wick with the furniture shop, right?
such a nice bloke

I miss my Kemper Lorri, it was great
@TvH has it now, doing the lord's work around the allotments

That sounds right, can't remember his name (we met around Bristol during a heavy weekend partying)

Nice. The wheelbase it deserves. When you ship a bike with a one-piece crank and plastic brake levers, it's bound to improve with age.

Anyone know when GSDs are going to be back in stock anywhere in the UK? And/or what latest prices are likely to be?

Realise there are issues with the distributor

Sketchy dropout elongation and disc conversion to figure out sizes.. laser cut dropouts to come

Ah cool, was just thinking what the solution for the long stuff I started carting around is.
3m on a trailer is asking for trouble, and my thinking went towards sidecar stuff.

And off to Kleinanzeigen we go!

It has the best crap, really it does.

It has a guy in the Netherlands who has several of those Kemper Lorris.
For 600€ plus loads of shipping.

Nexus 5 is yeah mostly over geared if that makes sense. For uk use would fit a smaller chainring (34t i think it's smallest?) and a 30t sprocket on the back, even then 5th gear is pointless but slightly more hill climbing ability. As with all igh, don't add forward momentum when changing gear.

Nexus 5 are fairly fragile tbh, but if you do treat them with mechanical sympathy they work well enough

Negative, new distributor looks to be in finland!

Buy a benno boost instead ;)

Tbh apart from weird wheel size and not fitting decent hydraulic brakes (even shimano cheapest would be ok) I thought the radpower long tail was good, certainly for£2-3k price point they do a lot of things right. Wrote a review about 6 months back.
Company had the spine to admit there was a tyre problem (mostly caused by cheap rim tape which any bike shop could fix regardless of mftr) and then did something about it, most of these new companies will not do that, they'll just fold and pop up under a new name. Kudos to them for doing the right thing.

very cool, looks like such a practical solution.

saw someone from https://www.northsidebikes.org/ riding one of these this morning with a front box loaded up with stuff for what appeared to be a dr bike session - looked like a serious bit of kit.
https://chike.de/en/e-cargo/

i will never get these new trikes. how to do you get down curbs? how do you ride along a steep slope?

i get that the chassis tilts but I've gotta see it succeed in difficult situations to believe it.