Cargo Bikes

Some of my favorite Scwhinn Cycletrucks

Would love to drive around town on that yellow one for a while!
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That puts the practical into porn.

I have a bmx waiting for this treatment, but came across the xtrabike before contacting welders.

Holy headtube!

Same here...

That puts the practical into porn.

Cargo BMX, @pdlouche would be all over that one

Edit: Ah shit, page fail.

You’re the 8th comment on this page 4 me

24th for me

Yarp. Still want to get one built. Thinking to use the heavy 4130 Huffy.

Just meant I didn't see this comment as it was on a new page for me. Pages change depending on whether or not you've got people blocked, I just hadn't caught up with the thread

That'd be cool, do it. Probably tough enough

that vulgar head tube with the ugly stack for starters.

Ridden many cycletrucks? 44mm headtubes are a thing if you want to carry more than 25kg of stuff without the front end going springy on you. Likewise, a fairly upright riding position is needed to keep any sort of control past that point.

Weird one.

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44mm headtubes are a thing if you want to carry more than 25kg of stuff without the front end going springy on you.

I was just saying it's not exactly porn. It may be very functional but one might solve the functionality in a more aethetically pleasing way.

Weird one.

Haha, love it!

I wouldn't have much confidence in that brake

It may be very functional but one might solve the functionality in a more aethetically pleasing way.

I'd argue that appreciating the aesthetics of something like a 44mm heattube is tied to appreciating what it does functionally. If you don't know what it does, it might looks off to you.

Owning a cycletruck with a standard headtube that I load up regularly, seeing a 44mm headtube definitely gets my upper lip sweaty.

But at the end the day: This is all me just criticizing your personal aesthetic tastes while trying to hide my insecurity that a stranger online doesn't like the things I think are cool, so take all that with a grain of salt.

DIY omnium on ebay for 295

Made by the guy that made my lemon. The guy is very honest, but I can’t say I’d recommend someone his welds. Told me he never had a weld fail before, and yet that’s what happened to the boxbike style frame he made me. That one looks a lot better built, maybe he has improved.

it does look verrrry DIY
the load looks much higher than a normal omnium too

And that bottom tube really could have done with being made out of one tube with a hole in it, rather than two tubes which aren’t even straight.

Looks like it'll pedal strike like a bastard on the slightest of turns

The guy was a really nice guy, an oldboy pensioner. No disrespect to him, and I think he really does try his best. He has made a load of bikes since retiring, but he is certainly not a framebuilder per se.

One for the weight-weenie Omnium owners: carbon steerer with cut-out stem to hold the steering rod.

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