Well, I've had very little (none, actually) support from box bike/long john owners so far.

But I'm not giving up - not on the build (of course!), and not on this thread. Someday people who can't afford a brand name long john will find this source of information that will help them, just as it happened to the homebuild xtracycle thread.

Good news:

I found out there is a German Cargo Bike Forum ( www.cargobikeforum.de ). There are several interesting threads on home building over there. One of them mentioned this VERY INTERESTING endeavour:

http://wiki.webinprogress.de/index.php/Hauptseite


wich includes pages on home building cargo bikes of various types:

http://wiki.webinprogress.de/index.php/Bauanleitungen


one of them WITH MEASUREMENTS! :-)

http://wiki.webinprogress.de/index.php/Long_Andr%C3%A9


and one project for building a cargo bike specific jig:

http://wiki.webinprogress.de/index.php/BikeBench


I happen to know German well, but I think it's worth a click even if you don't. Many pictures/schematics that speak for themselves.


all the best


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