That's what I was thinking. I was originally thinking of getting an xtracycle setup and hacking my old Specialized Hardrock. Then I was thinking Yuba Mundo, etc. I then found the Sun, and thought to myself that for about the same money as xtracycle (and a little over half of a Mundo), I can have a whole additional bike that's probably stronger due to the frame being one piece instead of the xtracycle part melded onto the Hardrock. This way, I keep the Hardrock in non-longtail form for the times where I want to bomb around on that, and have the Sun if I want a cargo bike. Cost being roughly the same, made sense to me to have two bikes than one.

I'm sure the Sun will be a compromise. To me it wasn't ultimate hauling ability so much as value for the money. It will probably do the vast majority of what I need a cargo bike to do for really cheap money. Like you pointed out, I can hardly get an xtracycle setup for much less. Unless the bike turns out to be a total POS, seems like a good deal to me. $600 leaves you some budget to tweak some details you might not like and still feel pretty good about the expenditure.

Hopefully the bike shows up sooner than later. As soon as it does, I'll take pics, etc, of anything anyone wants to see in detail. I hope the shop isn't blase about it and actually does what they can to get the bike here. It's not like I'm getting a Big Dummy or something really nice, but for some reason I'm kind of excited to get this and it's bugging me to have to wait weeks rather than just walking in a shop and walking out with a bike.