Cargo Bikes

Yeah I really like mine. Easy to ride and not too heavy (aluminium frame).

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So so so gutted every time you post.

Gotta say this looks a lot better in black and with those wheels you have on there
compared to the one I posted above.

Yeah the standard Sturmey Archer / Miranda running gear isn't very helpful either for looks or progress. I don't know what they were thinking with that. I switched it out for 9-speed SRAM X0 off my mountain bike and DX brakes

@pdlouche your time will come man!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Coffee-Bike-Tricycle/153362426561

Coffee Cargo Bike Business for sale in London!

Price is actually great for what you get!

So many cargo bikes in ney york/Brooklyn especially loves its long tails.
There appears to no longer be a bullitt dealer here which is crazy, quitr a few on the street belonging to courier companies though.
Also so many home brew bikes, love it

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Done !
Bike check:
•Omnium frame size 55
•Omnium wheels
•Thomson Elite seatpost and Thomson X4 110mm stem
•Sram S-Series cranckset (42t)
•Sram 10v cassette and Sram 10v chain
•Sram XO carbon shifter and rear derailleur
•Sram Guide discs brakes
•Noname riser (aluminium)
•Look S-Track
•Vans Lock-On grips
Saddle with change for a Slr as soon as I find one !

That's wild.

Posh!

My boss is selling one of his older cargo bikes - it's Xtracycle ER with a Cyclefab Cycletruck kit and a Stokemonkey e-assist system. He calls it his "War Wagon."

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awesome, gotta be some dollar?

Where at, how much?

@pdlouche & @dst - Seattle, WA. He specifically stated he hopes it ends up in the hands of a family that can't afford a new e-cargo bike, so I'd imagine less than you'd pay for a new Bosch Edgerunner.

Seen so many extra cycle over here, for carrying kids and family stuff think it's highly reputed over the surly /kona/other versions.

At our shop it remains the go-to long tail. I'm excited to see how the Stoker does though.

Current “build” is literally to check the thing is solid. Kiiiinda bought another lemon, but at least it was sold as “parts/not working”. Came as the frame, on-one forks, wheels, and with the xtracycle sidecar too.

Need to pretty much rebuild everything and work out why the chain rubs on the tyre. Probably to do with being a stupidly large balloon.

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Need to pretty much rebuild everything and work out why the chain rubs on the tyre. Probably to do with being a stupidly large balloon.

This is exactly the case. Companies like Xtracycle dish the wheel toward the non-drive side to overcome this.

Apparently it’s the original wheel for the bike, or at least “it was built especially for it” (said the seller, who was a bit slippery). Doesn’t make sense to have been so misaligned, so I don’t believe that.

A few of the spoke nipples need replacing anyway, so I expect I’ll need to replace and re-dish it completely.

Perhaps he meant it had to be hand-built because there were not 20" wheels available with freehub bodies? I donno.

The dish solution isn't something most people think about unless they've had experience with contemporary mid/longtails or something with a vaguely similar issue like 27.5+/29+ MTBs with boost cranks/hubs. It's even a relatively new practice for Xtracycle who only started doing it last year.

Another more kludgey option is to do something like taking an 8-speed cassette, dropping the smallest cog (do you really need an 11t on a longtail anyway?) and reinstall it with a 12t lockring as 7sp - this would let you put a 3.5mm spacer behind the cassette and that's usually enough to fix the issue if it's just rubbing in the lowest/largest cog of the cassette.

The kludgey option is exactly what I’ll be trying tomorrow. I test rode it around 10 miles unladen and it felt amazing. At least, it would have if I didn’t keep having the chain jump. Partly a stiff link or two and partly the old parts bin mech being awful. Gonna try 7 speed setup tomorrow since the spokes have no thread left to merely re-dish.

Yassssss! Oh man! Sooooo goood!!!!!!!

I have put the Truvativ cranks from the Giant Acid, and swapped out the rear mech and cassette for a 7 speed budget set I’d rescued from scrap, doing exactly as @vbulman suggested using a cassette spacer. Strange things happened though, I needed to readjust the axle to space the wheel more centrally. That meant ages adjusting the rear brake too.

ANYWAY woohoo! I dumped the broken DIY frame from that guy up north. He never replied about fixing it so I gave up ever using it. It needs to be burned with fire.

The sidecar is amazing. It pivots, it folds up to the frame, it rolls without anything obtrusive. Great fun.

I still get weird chain jumping problems on the smallest/highest gear, but I can live with that for having 6 functional low gears for load carrying. Unladen is way too easy to spin out, it’s forcing me to chill out a bit.

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That looks good :-)
What happened to the ebay frame bud:-(

Well, long and short of it was without a wooden box, the weld was too weak to withstand an actual load on the front so it cracked and busted under weight a few months ago. It broke during my ‘stress testing’ so I contacted the guy and he said get back to Liverpool and he’ll fix it, then never replied again.

The steering was sketchy anyway and I really didn’t trust repairing it, so after a few months decided it was time to go in the baler.

Sidecar maiden voyage seemed a pretty good test to dump it at the metal scrapyard.

Sidecar ending seems a fitting way for it to go :-(
Do you need me and me kiddas to go and sort him?

Ahaha nah. He was some oldboy doing his best. I lost a ton and a few weeks of stress, but at least I learnt that the DIY/box bike route wasn’t gonna work. Gutted to have dumped it, would have preferred to fix or give away to someone to fix. Ah well.