Cargo Bikes

Got quite a few miles clocked up on this with a rear adult passenger - just a random bike with a seat on it + some footpegs. Reckon you’ll be more than ok with an ecargo bike built for it!

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Charge bike. Nice.

love this, did you make the seat?

@Hamsandwich and Meal on the GSD

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Beautiful

I just attached the mounts to clip it on to the rack :)

nice, pipe clips?

Yes exactly

Any experience with the front light ? I'll be using it for a mix of city and country lane riding so hoping it has some power.

What bag is that on the front?

I've not used it in anger. It's quite a wide beam but medium(?) bright. I wouldn't go off-roading at night but I reckon you'd be ok for country roads. I'll send you a picture.

Just realised my bro has the 4+ so completely different set up. Not that relevant to you.

something's afoot

Family maintenance day on the cargo fleet, bullitt is half converted to electric (swytch kit) need to finish the custom back wall battery mount

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Wow impressive fleet indeed! Interested to know how the swytch kit handles the weight and stuff. Which battery are you using? :)

Its the older kit with the big battery. All 3 are 250w setups (swytch, bafang front drive, bbso1.) I rode this same swytch kit on a katu loaded up for camping up a mountain. I suspect it will do fine hauling our 3yo around town. Want to convert the longtail to mid drive but mostly out of boredom.

So the rear hub on our Yuba Kombi appears to be somewhat fooked right now - play in freehub, possibly a bent axle to boot. I'm not coming up with much searching for "cargo bike rear hub" - is there anything specific, any good hub to look for?

To be more specific, this is a 135mm (I believe.. I should check that), bolt-on, HG, 6-bolt disc hub, and the freehub is 10-speed (MTB) so that's basically what I'm looking for, a direct swap. Oh, and not a hub with a motor in it.

If there's nothing out there but cheap-tat like this Yuba hub appears to be then are there other options like a solid-axle swap on a cup-n-cone (e.g. Deore) hub? Unfortunately needs to be able to take the brunt of two small kids on the back and a mid-drive motor + parent up front.

Sold our Butchers and Bicycles last week, so bought a Load 60 to replace it at the weekend. It’s compact and narrow - much prefer it on these country lanes, and the suspension makes a big difference too. Also love the Cargoline motor - feels more powerful than the CYC Photon on my Omnium under load.

Omnium with Photon off road, Load for on road.

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If you get a chance, would you mind measuring the Load 60 at it's widest part? Thinking about what to do when I need/want to swap out the GSD but we have a narrow side access where the GSD only just fits.

I haven’t measured, but used these when deciding to get a 60.

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why would you ever want to do that

It's not going to last forever, shirley?

Nice, cheers!

I'll have had my Bafang coming up on a year soon.

I'm still completely clueless about servicing it. Going to have to bring it to a shop.

Any recommendations?

I've had mine 4 years and have never serviced..