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

OK, I see how I misread that. I also knew that previously, but you know, the thing.

I think that if you’re over 6’4" you don’t get stock cargo bikes that fit you. I had to get a longer seatpost for the Supermarche, which 1. Is sketchily long and 2. still isn’t quite long enough.

I’d love to see a next version from them that kept the step through frame but specced about 150-200mm more seat post.

Got an air bubble in the rear brake line on my longtail. Probably just did a shitty job bleeding it when I installed it a month or 2 ago. The spongy brake wasn’t great but it was sort of like having ABS on the unloaded rear end lol

On a similar note, I think the front brake on my Bullitt needs a bleed but it’s a weird magura and I have no idea how.

What’s your saddle height?

You bleed Magura brakes by replacing them with Shimano.

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for cargo like 855-870mm

I ride a little low so that I can get totally flat footed on the ground in a hurry. I’m rarely riding for more than a couple miles without stopping on a cargo bike, so I am less worried about good fit.

for road more like 865-873, for comparison

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Went stump hunting for beer olympics 2morrow and found a good one

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It’s big, it’s heavy, it’s wood. It’s stump!

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It’s better than bad: it’s good!

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While I was heading out of town on a bike tour I ran into a train commuter friend on the Sounder and helped him lift his cargo bike into the train with a big piece of plywood strapped to the deck. He was bringing it into work so that he could use an industrial water jet cutter (that they manufacture) to custom cut panels/holes out of the sheet. He showed me his mockup so he could export the dimensions to the Water jet machine.

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Using a water jet to cut wood?

Yeah it works great as long as the lead ins and outs are far enough from the actual cut. If you cover it on both sides it won’t really get all that wet.

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yeah i’ve waterjet plywood plenty of times. works great. would probably prefer a CNC router if i had a choice but the waterjet at work is readily available and i’m trained up on it.

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Not sure I see much of an advantage to using plywood over a sturdy plastic or a tough outdoor fabric in that application, and I say that as someone with a bamboo box on my longjohn.

It’s not bad, but it’s heavy and rigid. I’ve been meaning to switch to the fabric kit for a while now.

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Will your bamboo box fit on my Bullitt? If so, wanna sell it to me?

baby I would but it’s for a Supermarche. I can take some measurements, but I’m guessing that at the least you’d have to re-do the fastener points.

Sounds doable…

I’ll take some measurements, but for what it will cost to ship some pieces of cut drilled board, it might be cheaper to get numbers from me and get the board locally.

I may be living in a fool’s paradise, but my dream is that hollow steel tubing supporting some cordura fabric sides (https://yubabikes.com/cargobikestore/yuba-open-loader-supermarche/) will make for a lighter and nimbler bike.