I went to the store for a light (~70 pounds) of seltzer water
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your shirt rules
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Months late but this was always my thought. Before cargo bikes were big, especially in Richmond Va, people would ask if it was hard to ride. And always my response was that no, it’s actually stupid easy to ride. The hardest part is getting back on your own bike.
I’ve never been a bike geometry understander so I’ve never been able to explain it but moving from regular bike to bullit you get over it quickly. But moving from bullitt to regular bike there’s always a “whoa” period, even if it’s just the first 100ft.
What’s the deal with that? Does putting the wheel that far out front on a linkage make the steering feel more twitchy? Or are you having to steer through corners before you normally would? I’m very Bullitt-curious right now (would probably buy an eBullitt if the funds x dealz ratio worked), but I do like how my hacked together Big Dummy just rides like A Bike because I’m switching bikes a lot lately.
For me it seems like the Hase has a ton of steerer damping so getting back on a regular bike felt insanely twitchy.
Yeah, I think it’s that the steering linkage doesn’t have the same kind of direct force feedback ash having your bars attached directly to the fork and so when you go back to a regular bike, it feels like it’s flopping into every turn.
Like you don’t steer a regular bike, you lean and counter steer, but on a bike with a steering linkage, you actually steer the bike more.
I’m dumb and this is all speculation. Lets conjure @JUGE_FREDD and @jimmythefly to weigh in.
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Besides differences in steering feel and feedback, I think the big thing is where your center of rotation is. Same thing with a tandem, but in the opposite way!
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Yeah I’m not 100% on this, but agree. The distance side-to-side that your front wheel contact patch moves laterally feels different on a Bullit because you’re so much closer to the rear wheel. So as the front wheel moves around, your body doesn’t move nearly as much as a typical bike.
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This tracks. I noticed that standing and climbing on the Hase is where it feels the strangest and shifting my weight forward seems to slightly help.
Also agree about the leaning vs steering. Its a very different process for sure.
Yep — the further you are from the center of rotation, the more your body moves left or right when you turn.
Imagine being on a merry go round, standing in the center vs hanging on to the outside
Clemmy’s first bike ride!
One second after I took this picture, ash dumped the bike with both girls on it lol
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Ooh! I’m pretty jealous of that crock! Is it a Red Wing?
Growing up, dad had a 75 in his bedroom he used as a laundry hamper
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Laundry day must have been a mother when it was time to drag the hamper down to the laundry room.
It was the first place you checked when playing hide and seek
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I brought home some shapely chunks of oak from this fallen and chopped up tree. I have no idea why I did but I did.
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