How Cool is this

[Caph]

I'm surprised that load didn't float away Flecc! Did you have to add weights to keep it on the ground?

 

[flecc]

I'm surprised that load didn't float away Flecc! Did you have to add weights to keep it on the ground?

Much heavier than it looks, those folded sheets of plastic in the bottom half were stiff very heavy gauge stuff that I had a job to fold up like that. Only the top was ordinary polythene sheet.

Not the heaviest by far though, I've routinely carried fridges, cookers and old TVs to recycling, once a three seater settee, once a double bed cut in half. Those sort of loads always attract attention, no risk of a car driver ever colliding with me!
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[flecc]

Kalkhoff Sahel Comp valmorphonized

That's the Xtracycle load carrying attachment, plus panniers. This can be used on any conventional bike and some e-bikes.
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[Caph]

I've routinely carried fridges, cookers and old TVs to recycling, once a three seater settee, once a double bed cut in half.

Now those are most definitely heavy loads!!!

 

[daniel.weck]

Now those are most definitely heavy loads!!!

Bah, why use an e-bike ? ...nothing like good old donkey-powaaaa !! (Jeremy Clarkson voice) LOL

 

[flecc]

Bah, why use an e-bike ? ...nothing like good old donkey-powaaaa !! (Jeremy Clarkson voice) LOL

Absolutely. Reminds me of slowly passing a donkey and very large trap up a steep local hill in my unpowered cycling days. The Gypsy family who I knew were on board, enormously fat father and two teenage sons, so I slowed to
remark on how the tiny donkey was coping so well. The father said it was pulling 63 stones (over 400 kilos), and
that was a 1 in 7 hill. Amazing how strong donkeys are.
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[Straylight]

So, to join threads for a second, a Donkey on a suitably equipped bicycle, would be the ultimate in efficient, all terrain, load bearing transportation! I suppose you have to factor in the food miles for the oats & hay, but this is offset with an unending supply of fertiliser....in any case it could all be delivered by Donk-e-bike...I must stop or this will start to seem like a viable proposition



(I've just realised - it could ride a tandem by itself!)

 

[CeeGee]

So, to join threads for a second, a Donkey on a suitably equipped bicycle, would be the ultimate in efficient, all terrain, load bearing transportation! I suppose you have to factor in the food miles for the oats & hay, but this is offset with an unending supply of fertiliser....in any case it could all be delivered by Donk-e-bike...I must stop or this will start to seem like a viable proposition



(I've just realised - it could ride a tandem by itself!)

Don't be silly - how would it steer?

Colin

 

[flecc]

Don't be silly - how would it steer?

Colin

Lean control, yes really, some recumbent designs have lean steering and it can work well once used to it. Just
need a smart donkey.
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[HittheroadJ]

Aside from the trek there are many options for cargo bikes with assist.

Yuba Mundo Cargo Bike , for example sell longtails, frontloaders etc. and most of them are optionally available with the Ezee kit.

I keep wondering if a rear wheel kit is not more preferable on a frontloader as well (when you go uphill the weight will be more on the rear-wheel). Or am I mistaken?

 

[jac]

hi this ones ideal if you get thirsty on the journey

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jim

 

[HittheroadJ]

I manage a couple of beers like that fine on a two wheeler.
What kind of e_bike is that one with the beer?

btw. did you ever see this kind of "gear"?
YouTube - Unique Bike Crank (2-SPEED)

 

[Straylight]

And some thing else that's rather cool, an F1 e-bike!

 

[flecc]

btw. did you ever see this kind of "gear"?
YouTube - Unique Bike Crank (2-SPEED)

Ok for cadence alternatives, but too slow to implement and in any case, most experienced riders have a cadence preference that they don't change when riding.

A solution to a non-existent problem I think.
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[HittheroadJ]

Maybe he'll invent the Nupedci CVT version next.

 

[jac]

the red bike carrying the beer is a biketec flyer i-sy the bike seems to be made as an non electric bike then biketec add panasonic drive

jim

 

[thunderblue]

Lean control, yes really, some recumbent designs have lean steering and it can work well once used to it. Just
need a smart donkey.
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A smart-ASS, you mean lol

 

[flecc]

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