Originally Posted by
Roody
That's a messed up analogy. Do you really believe that Americans and Europeans should shun gears on a cargo bike? We have the money to buy them, and repairs and replacements are readily available. I bet if he could afford them and repair them, the average Zimbabwean cargo hauler would LOVE to have some gears.
Well, it all depends on where you live. On this side of the Arkansas River, the foothills of the Ouachita Mountains, you couldn't do a SS cargo bike. The hills are ubiquitous. But if you went 10 miles east from here, across the river it's flat river-delta land. SS cargo bike, no problem. The pics Zeppinger chose were from Shanghai, which appears to be pancake flat delta land, so they work.
But me, I loves my gears.