VoltairePerkins

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• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 3 months, 3 weeks

  

  I have a well used 26" Alfine 11 wheel gathering dust in the shed that you're welcome to if you can come collect it from SW
  Took it off my Bullitt when I installed the mid-drive but it was an unproblematic daily driver on the nursery/school run for years.

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 10 months

  

  All the FindMy trackers (whether they're actual airtags or other FindMy compatible devices like the Knog) do is broadcast their ID by bluetooth to all the phones in the vicinity.
  The phone then does all the useful stuff like sending the location to Apple. So the notification that you're travelling with an unknown device is handled on the receiving phone (in this case the phone of the scumbag who's nicked your bike). It's a feature of the network rather than the tracking device so there's no way Knog or anyone else can opt out of it.
  If they're unfamiliar with what the knog looks like it might take them a little while to figure out what they need to ditch to stop the tracking but I think there's now an option in the alert to disable an unknown tracker that's travelling with you so they might not even need to remove it from the bike
  I think it's probably useful as an immediate "your bike is being nicked and it's currently being ridden round the corner" alert but it's not going to let you track it for days or even hours after the theft.

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 year, 6 months

  

  This is really nice work, thanks for sharing

  I already feel preemptively terrible about my inevitable bodge...in fact I may not even bother and just give up cargo biking altogether

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 year, 6 months

  

  do you have any photos of the battery/loading deck setup?
  I've now got all the bits for a bafang bulitt conversion and I'm starting to have to think about practicalities (like where to mount the battery)

  Also, does anyone here have any experience of rohloff bulitts? Specifically which dropouts to use and how to go about positioning/securing the external mech?

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 1 year, 11 months

  

  We've had two niholas (switched the standard family for an electric 4.0 recently) and we love them.
  They understeer like crazy at any kind of speed and it's trivial to pick up the inside wheel (but they're remarkably stable on two wheels) but that only happens when I'm riding it and I've never had it tip (or feel like it's coming close) with kids on board.
  The akerman steering takes a bit of getting used to but I much prefer it to a hinged Christiana type box trike. They are pretty heavy but the way the design puts most of the weight over the front wheels means you can pick it up by the saddle and pivot it around much easier than any other trike I've ridden.
  They're not particularly fast (even with the motor) but IMHO they're a huge amount of fun

• Tour De France / Tour De France Femmes 2022

  in Rides & Races • 2 years, 5 months

  

  C'mon Tim!

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 years, 6 months

  

  Honestly?
  Looking at you posting about madjax and wondering what the fuck I was doing wasting my time buggering around with bendy bits of plywood

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 years, 6 months

  

  Hey Bullitt owners!
  I have an MDF form for making side panels like this guy if anyone wants it?

  I'm deeply inept at woodworking so I've made a pretty excellent hash of making these but they're good enough for now and the overall process is pretty easy. I have no reason to believe I'll do better on a second (or third or fourth) attempt so this won't get used again by me.

  The form is made from a whole sheet of MDF so it's pretty heavy (but transportable by Bullitt obv!) and it's screwed together so you can make one side then unscrew, flip all the pieces over and screw it back together to make the other side.
  Currently in Brixton but I can take it with me to the office in Angel on the occasional trips I take up there these days

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 years, 10 months

  

  Fair
  Thankyou

• Cargo Bikes

  in Bikes & Bits • 2 years, 10 months

  

  Quick sanity check;
  How quickly do you think a bafang would shred the Alfine 11 hub on my Bullitt?
  (I know they're not going to play nicely together just wondering if it'll hold together for a while or if I should just bite the bullet and replace the rear wheel at the same time)