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

[LASER_BEIGE]

I put a dropper on Omnium

[russ]

Dang
Wait til you tell her about gasoline tanks

[Master_Stabby]

You mean there’s one in every car!!!

[iwillbe]

This seems like a person who could very very easily get rooked by the old “dihydrogen monoxide: the perilous chemical in YOUR community” goof.

[karl_dandleton]

basically burns steel. properly harsh stuff.

[Dr_Jart_Attack_PhD]

@BEEutiful_Wednesday_DDS

…elp” with the drive, threw a crying fit saying how dangerous it was to drive with propane tanks. literally would not let my wife put them in the car.we left them at the old house. i called some friends who picked them up, so at least they got a nice gift.as far as i’m concerned, that stupid woman owes me $120 or whatever it costs for the tanks + fill.HOW DOES SHE THINK PEOPLE TRANSPORT PROPANE TANKS

I just did a 5lb co2 swap with my cargo bike and my gf was like “isn’t that dangerous???” and I was like would you rather it explode in your car?

[Face]

This is why I need a cargo bike.

[Straws]

Airgas deintely won’t let you pick up bottles on a bullitt. I’ve tried.

[Face]

[iwillbe]

I wonder if there’s some regulatory criteria for being able to secure the bottles, and if so, if you could get a hazardous materials transport cerfitication for your cargo bike.

[asterisk]

I think it’s a location by location thing. I’ve gotten a hard time at one of the big chains when I picked up a cylinder of shielding gas in my station wagon but the local indie supplier didn’t say anything when I picked up small cylinder of CO2 with my Bob trailer.

[Andrew_Andeson]

So on a fun trail ride with my kid on our recently craigslisted xtra, i shifted into the spokes. Luckily ive been a bad bike mechanic for my whole life and know how that feels and to stop pedaling when it happens. So there’s zero damage.

I will twizzle the limit screw a bit but are folx running dork discs on their long chainstay cargo bikes? It doesn’t seem like a terrible idea with all that extra chain bouncing around.

[Rusty_Piton]

I never did and never had a problem but I didn’t shift much on that bike and certainly didn’t ride it on too much singletrack.

[crowding]

Sometimes xtras will have a chain tensioner or dummy derderder mounted at the host frame dropout to help tame the lower run

[VT_regularbike]

@Straws

Airgas deintely won’t let you pick up bottles on a bullitt. I’ve tried.

Central welding you can do walk up though so you just have to lock up a little farther away.

[johnasavoia]

Not sure if it helped, but I never dropped a chain or threw it into the spokes, so maybe, but I used a seatpost light mount as a ghetto tensioner on my xtra, super simple, everyone has one kicking around.

[Rusty_Piton]

Today’s cargo bike load.

[crowding]

Well, I played several rounds of “find the weakest link” with this old stokemonkey battery pack, when I’d pulled the 18th collapsed cell (out of 30) I called it quits. Time to get some lithium.

Orig system is 36V but internet research suggests the motor+controller will handle 48. Thinking of maybe a triangle pack in 20Ah factor, maybe mounted behind the stays to keep weight centered. Anything I should watch out for?

[VT_regularbike]

Pixies

[Face]

@Andrew_Andeson

It doesn’t seem like a terrible idea with all that extra chain bouncing around.

The distance between the pulley and the cassette is the same no matter how long your chainstays are. Your dangler hangler is probably bent.