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just to add, suspension is useful on a cargo for further emptying your wallet
Sure there’s some special cases where it’s handy but I doubt 99% of the time it’s doing more than adding complexity, expense and an unnecessary ~100hr-if-u-r-lucky service interval.
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this is a bike forum not a debating forum tho. There’s a huge range of riders and use cases, so the idea that suspension adds nothing 99% of the time and is just expensive complexity is just hyperbole. It depends entirely on the road surface, number of kerbs you have to mount/drop, all sorts of things. i appreciate that places with half decent infrastructure may not require sus but 10km of basically pavé every day might make it useful. It also matters a lot how old the kids are.
freddo
Congrats.
The Riese & Muller Load 4 75 has full front and rear suspension and will take 3 kids. I know others aren't sold on suspension but if you're mostly transporting the kids you can dial it in for their comfort first and foremost. I can't imagine there's anything pleasant about being bounced around in a wooden box without suspension which is why I've got one on order. Happy to give you an update when it arrives.
just to add, suspension is useful on a cargo bike, particularly with kids because tyres spend more time in contact with the ground for better braking / control. Obviously there's some marketing guff going on by the manufacturers but I've gone for full suspension and ABS purely because an unloaded cargo bike isn't going to give you a lot of grip at the front