No I’m looking for a dirt cheap son 135, but until that (never) happens how fun is it to run rear wheels up front on a gigantic fat fork on my fake velo orange cargo bike.
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I get it
Needs drop bars!
ok now hear me out. make the cassette on your front rear wheel drive a dynamo hub on a fragile and ill conceived mess of brackets
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This is clearly the solution.
A trip to a distant grocery store in search of a particular flavor of seltzer water (which wasn’t there) – ~90 pounds, and my persistant overloading has started to tear the desk off the frame of @Toast’s old bob yak, but both it and I managed to make it back home without an amusing disassembly disaster.
(and look at that classic cinder-block profile I’m showing in this picture. Hot Crone Summer will come one of these days, but not today.)
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I think some of y’all have these, fyi
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Ash and a couple friends are starting a native prairie landscape coop. They’re trying to do as much as possible by bike. Kieth is a beast. That trailer is rated to 600 pounds!
Here’s their website
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Holy! That trailer must take forever to get up to speed!
I’m pretty sure speed isn’t the main objective with a 600#, ten foot long load.
But why not?
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because once you do, stopping is not possible?
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Kieth’s bike is a Wolverine with a Sturmy-Archer 3 speed hub and cable disk in front and whatever weird drum/roller/werdo brake is on the SA hub. I’d proceed slowly and smoothly with a landscape load.
why is the linkage arm a curved piece of 4" glavanized tube?
That looks like a Bikes At Work trailer
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Meanwhile I’m hauling around my 45 pound kid on the longtail and can barely average 8.5 mph for a relatively simple 8 mile 300 ft elevation commute.
Dipping my toes into #basketlife with a small front basket on my commuter. It’s a small Blackburn Grid, going on a Genesis Croix de Fer, gravel bike with 73º head tube and 50mm offset.
Dumb question: since the bike isn’t low-offset, what’s the better placement for optimal handling? Pushing the basket back as close to the headtube as possible, or pushing it forward to center over the contact patch?
It’s only a few cm either way, but I gotta cut the struts for this so I might as well do it right the first time. Thanks in advance!
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I think you spelled “Wald 137” wrong.
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Not helpful!
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My advice re: basket placement is to put it wherever it interferes with cables and controls the least. Don’t worry too much about handling. You’ll get used to it almost instantly and then whatever it does to your handling will be moot.
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