Cargo Bikes

Or spend time on potting some plants and then strap those to the front .

Excuse all the shite in the background. I’ve got a fairly big modular box in the pipeline. We use quite a lot of that extruded aluminium construction kit at work and I’ve syphoned off some scrap offcuts to build a box with variable width and a fold-down seat that can start small and expand up as my lad grows. I carry some pretty big crap on this bike but I’ve found the box is something it lacks for just throwing things onboard and not having to strap down. I’ll mount it up initially on my existing base board which is 450mm wide. The seat frame is those L shapes and can slide forwards or backwards, go either way round, angle is on lock-off hinges, it’s height adjustable and I’ll make a seat base that can also slide forwards to expand. It’ll also drop flat or come out completely. Using my existing base board the load space will be 850mm x 450mm plus angle at the front, but I think I might go wider. The frame determines the shape and holds it together, while the sides are held on with T-slot nuts and give it the stiffness, so I guess I’ll use a nice 9mm ply for durability.

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nice

Offcut envy, all I get from work are bread heels.

bread heels

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would not

Wear or eat? Or wear and eat?

Would

Look well plush

Mould

fixed

exactly

Dog and pizza.

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Great work. I finally got round to adding the ghetto compartments to the XC a day or so ago. One’s for bungees and straps, and one’s for inner tubes/spares.

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Awesome!

Sounds risky! Pizza still there when you got back?

Thanks. I have left the big seat tube cavity empty for now, still wondering if I ever find the ££ for the electric conversion. If I did that’s where I’ll fit the battery, but it may foul the access to those compartments. In which case everything gets a switch-around.

In the future I’ll remake the seat for the back with a hinge, so it can be folded up. That way the front can fold up for one deep compartment instead of these two, and the back fold up as a seat rest (and possible slimline case under, or to allow a crate on the back as well as passenger).

All in one piece although the dog was desperate to get the cheese.

Good doggo.

Whats the forum recommended locks for Cargo Bikes?

We've just brought an E-Bullitt for trying to replace the car for short trips.

Is a chain more practical than a D Lock?

Whats the forum recommended locks for Cargo Bikes?

Leaving your screaming child in the cargo area.

Haven't got one of them yet! Could borrow my neice I suppose

Jokes aside here in Berlin I have seen it numerous times that owners just keep their dogs on a leash tied to the bike when they go into the shops.

Amen to that suggestion.

And to answer your question yeah sure a chain is more practical, in terms of locking the bike to something (like overnight, outside your house), but for short-ish stops people usually just use a small D-Lock and lock a wheel; it's not as if somebody would be carrying a big and heavy cargo bike away quickly.

Frame locks are convenient for quick and or safe stops. Add a chain or D-lock and you're set for when you need something extra