Cargo Bikes

Great work! Mind me asking how big your dog is? And do they actually like riding in the Bullitt?
I'm still dreaming of a Bullitt for my 32kg idiot but it's not going to happen any time soon.

Looks lovely - thanks for tagging me!

Put noprene either side and the cells / bms are both water resistant. Going to mastic round the edges

He's 21kg but quite tall as he's a lurcher.

He loves it in the bike, but he's be in the bike since a pup.

Fork seal is blown out already!

Someone needs to start making cargo bike forks again those suntour ones are utter pish.

Fetch 4 I think the load space is similar to load 75 bullit and ua family. It's just the box is very tall and wide so appears more massive. Spec for the price is about right maybe a tad better value than a load 75 tbh. Ua family still the daddy in that market for value.
Shame it comes with envolio hd and not the extreme yet, though if its just family use should be ok. Mostly courier use that kills HD hubs.

Will be interesting to see what happens with cargo bikes now some big boys are playing in this market. Though cubes entry is similar and has not sold well at all despite an extremely keen push into dealers with ex demo units priced mentally low.

Tell this to r+m. Most new ones we see from other sources the bolts are loose on at least not torqued up/threadlocked very well. Their system on load and packster is Ok, but not much redundancy in it and have seen them fall off on folk before. You get warning though as steering gets sloppy enough for most people to realise something is wrong.
R+m some of thr bolts are upside down, only way for them to work. Have a pin in them, but easily knocked off and tbh most loose all their safety pins within first year of regular use. Wpuld be a lot safer if they used cotter pins/split pins or safety wire, that way bolt could come totally loose and it would not back out of thr fitting = steering would feel awful but there would be no failure

this is fucking good! What range are you getting with this setup?

and have you joined this?

I think we've actually had this conversation before, sorry! I'm sure I'll ask again next time you post a photo of the dog in the Bullitt, I have an appalling memory.

Mine on MiniMax QR version (old one), 100% original as I mount the bike on a new frameset as the documentation says.

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Do you happen to have a picture of this installed?

Only this one, and not home this week to take a better one.
Had to chop the eyelet thing off thats on the other picture.
It's a bit ugly but has worked for almost 3 years of frequent but short rides. No fun to take off the back wheel though.
Have access to welding stuff now so sliding dropouts and a powdercoat might eventually happen.

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Thanks for that. Looks like mine is the correct nuts and bolts bit in the wrong order.

Thanks. Glad to see the simple option works. My wife wants to switch from her Nichola to ideally a shorty long john. Bakfiets or is:y seem to be the only good options for this. Unless I come across a bullit cheap enough to get cut into a shorty (but thats more of a pipedream.)

I’m lucky enough to have a back yard it can sit in.
If you ever need to do some cargoing let me know and you can borrow it.

TBC, will let you know.

I think it will be significantly more than a 20aH offering from AliExpress.

My bro works at trek. That's why he has it! European sales haven't as strong as they expected.

@deik can you photo the rear bolt please?

A lot of larger bike companies over estimate the cargo market.
Like it's great to see some new bikes, but the experience that a lot of regular bike shops will find when stocking them by choice or by contracted obligation won't be as positive for them as they hope as sales everywhere aside Germany are very slow just now.

If they keep things sensible for a year or so and don't lean on dealers too hard then should be fine again, loads more families will take up cargo bikes when they can afford it in the future I hope.

Looks pretty similar on omnium picture from us website

https://omniumcargo.us/shop/product/replacement-steering-rod-w-joints/

I assume the steering rod must be as max perpendicular to the head tubes, mini max with bolts and cargo without them.

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If anyone wants to see what travelling with a small child on an omnium is like. Have a look at this Instagram account, he's been riding around Norway with his little one and it looks incredible!

https://instagram.com/odinavatar?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

In case that wasn't you who emailed yesterday. Fresh off the box.

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Any info on spec and price?

Depending on the DU generation either the cog or the spider are offset.

:edit: old page fail.

Grey R&M load 75 spotted riding down at Mary’s avenue in Wanstead around 8pm this eve. Anyone on here?

It was me who emailed! Thanks.

Also cheers @diek