Dude, that’s genius! Fuckin score finding a second base! What are the chances of that???
I’m gonna get a heftier box and do like you!
At first glance this was just a baby in a box
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We used a similar setup, but our infant car seat was a hand-me-down from before those sweet hot-swappable bases. The seat fit perfectly in the tub so I just used straps to secure seat to the bike frame (they aren’t tensioned in the photo)
btw, that tub is pretty sturdy and was like 7 EUR at the home store. I think they use them for job-site garbage transfer bins
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Never seen one of these before
Found this sweet basket bike
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That’s just a bad katu
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First posts go in the new guy thread FNG
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New guy, please explain how were supposed to comment on a bike that’s only 3 pixels
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Terry 2020
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But not here, in the new guy thread.
Bringing home one of Mig’s frames to chop apart and put couplers into (plus a donor frame that has one of the couplers in question):
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what tire do you have on BOB? does it even matter on a trailer?
A 38mm Kenda Kwest. The 16" tire world isn’t that great, and this one doesn’t actually actively suck.
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TC: I like this BOB trailer better than any other carry shit setup i’ve had.
Alright I’ve got a couple hundred miles on the Big Dummy, these observations are unlikely to be news here but I feel compelled to put them down.
- It’s definitely slower than my LHT. I’m not fast to begin with, but I feel like my average speed on the LHT is like 12ish mph and on the Dummy it’s like 10. Noticeable but not a big deal at the distances I’m riding.
- Feel like I’m gonna go through brake pads on this thing, unless bb7s generally require frequent adjustment?
- It took a couple weeks to understand how the bags work but I think I get it now. Need to make sure they are cinched down good or it rides weird for the first mile or 2 as stuff settles.
- I get the cargo limitations vs a bathtub front loader now. I feel like I can carry more of the same sort of stuff that I carried on my LHT but not necessarily different stuff. This is still a welcome upgrade and I haven’t messed with strapping too much weird stuff to the deck yet. That said I guess I grabbed two bundles of firewood and still picked up a pizza on the way home, so that was sweet.
Overall I really dig it though. Despite being huge and slow it is still fun to ride and feels like a bike. Still riding the LHT when I don’t need the extra capacity but I could envision the Dummy as an only bike under the right circumstances
i feel like my experience with bb7s involved frequent adjustments
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Adjusting bb7s every other ride is a feature.
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