You're gunna hurt yourself: Carry Shit Olympics (aka the Cargo Bike thread)

Oh man are we gonna need to get your name changed back!?!

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Nope!

“all the way to the scene of the accident” is my favourite aphorism for this

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Our friends’ kiddo left his all important Blonde Baby at our house so I did a special delivery on my way to work.

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Do you know my buddy Chris? That’s his IG account.

I don’t know him, just a Chicago bike account I follow. Seems like a cool dude.

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that looks pretty nice. wonder why it’s not mid drive and doesn’t include a small front rack. I do take issue with them calling this colourway ‘white’ as well

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I kinda like that.

Carless Whisper is the absolute stupidest name for a tire but I’d get over it I’m sure.

Ehhh it’s a rad with good parts.

good parts including some $5 plastic office wastebaskets from Staples that they bolted to the frame? They should just sell it with a massive front rack and bucket, get people using that kind of bike the right way. Panniers < 19gallon tub on frame bakers rack.

I want one of those recordable bicycle bells with a saxomophone riff

careless whisper sounds exactly like a tarckism tbh

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REI did a pretty good job of making this bike too. not really cargo proper but a great value and has hauled me around a bit with sup behind the bars

https://www.rei.com/product/190640/co-op-cycles-generation-e12-electric-bike

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I thought someone here had one. I think I’d rather buy that for $1000 less and dither on it.

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it’s got cycletruck basket mounts on the front of the HT

plus the waterbottle zits on the side of the HT should have been an obvious innovation before, like how the fuck did the QBP brands get beaten to this?

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I forgot about these things. I strongly believe we need to be doing family outings on bikes next year at a minimum to not fuck with parking around here and that is a strong Rad alternative for mom

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what’s funny is this bike was supposed to come out like six months ago and then everything just went dark without warning

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It’s a cool bike. I like it, minus the expensive plastic bins even though I understand the utility. Also any argument for the hub drive besides “it’s cheaper” is wrong.

Biggest bummer of these big companies putting out cargo bikes is that their big corporate stores are the absolute worst places to educate people on how awesome cargo bikes are.

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That’s true, I don’t know what REI training is like these days, but it’s also the best way to get them into the exurbs/suburbs that aren’t served by shops. IRL discoverability is still a huge piece of the puzzle for something like this.

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