My 29+ Pugsley with Jones bars is like 77% of the way to this but I still keep thinking about a a sw8 Evasion-type bike
I want something that can carry a backpack and a bag of groceries while still fitting into normal sized bike spaces. My proposed use case is “better carriage capacity than a Crosscheck, but not an 80lb behemoth cargo bike”.
I’m now back to thinking that a Soma Tradesman frame may be a good option. The dithering continues.
I know it’s not what you want, but that’s pretty much any bike with rear panniers + front wald basket, no?
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Yeah it seems like there must be a Surly that fits this description. Or a hybrid from some other manufacturer (Kona, Novara, Jamis, ?) that would work.
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Jimmy is the truth atmo
I’ve tried versions of that in past, never really did it for me. The big thing I want is just a single massive bucket into which I can hurl many different bags and objects without really having to think about repacking or balancing or really anything. I have my Edgerunner set up so the back has the usual bags and a massive basket (thanks to a net strung under the running board and up around the outside of the kid-protector rails), and that’s close, but it lacks depth.
Something like the Pashley Delibike is kinda what I’d be into:
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Gotcha. And believe me I am not immune to bike dithering!
I asked these guys for geometry a long time ago and never heard back.
Specs makes me think it’ll be a heavy beast, but might be worth investigating.
An idea I’ve tossed around is using a mini-velo (i.e. Sundeal V1) to build a huge-basket bike.
The 20" front wheel + tallish head tube should give lotsa room for a huge basket. Only question is if it makes sense to set it up porteur style attached to the fork/bars or cycletruck style and try to figure out a head tube mount.
So having a linkage isn’t inherently bad. A bad design is bad.
Yeah.
To add, I don’t think the execution of both the Bilenky Sherpa and Soma Pick-up Artist was poorly done but I think their hybrid nature compromises there usefulness.
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What ever happened to those folks who were welding porteur racks onto ebay dual crown cruiser forks? Seemed like a more elegant sloution than the clydesdale.
The Soma PUA is only 1400 bucks complete? That’s a great price for a bike you’re probably right about being an unwieldy crapfest!
The lack of closeup pictures of the Virtue Truck makes me wonder about the quality of parts and joinery, but the price, like that of the Soma, is making me think that I should just have like ten different cargo bikes.
Does anybody want to GB an omnium frame? I emailed with the dude and he said they can send pairs of framesets FOB China to west coast
The tradesman is pretty sweet, despite how much I used to hate it. It’s the last step before a linkage based system like omnium. The tradesman platform is pretty big but not too big to store indoors. I honestly think it’s a good bike and especially for the prices they go for.
I think we talked about this a couple years ago- what would the unit+shipping come out to? I’d need to get mine sent in to the east coast.
Raleigh is coming out with a new front platform cargo bike called the Lorry. Should hit shops late October. US retail is $800 I believe.
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Oh yeah, my buddy showed me that bike earlier last year in the showroom at Raleigh. I was very stoked be he was like NO PICTURES!
What size rear wheel is that?
website says 26"
Interesting the the American website doesn’t have the Lorry but the Canadian does and it looks slighty different than the one you posted:
http://raleigh-canada.ca/lorry
Are those downward facing dropouts on the pokes? 