jeremywhitehorn

hey shop people - any of you know who deals with dutch-style cargo bikes in this town? the kind with the load on the front like this. better yet, anyone making them in canada?

TRaffic Jammer

That's evil Mike... Hey any plans for Rob's/Operator's/Almond Sex Legs™'s last days?

iherald

I usually just check updates on velonews, but holy cow do I need to watch it tonight. The mind bogles how teams let that happen.

trueno92

just wondering if anyone knows where to find TUFO tires in toronto? just the S22 pro's...

or do i have to wake Vlad up by calling him and ordering online???

that west-coast chillaxin' god damn.......

im also thinking of converting to brifters, but its a touch cost prohibitive at the moment......

anyone with 8speed or higher downtube shifters they want to unload?

running 8 speed friction at the moment and its OKAY.. have done about 300 kms friction..
but the precision of indexing is leaving me feeling all empty.. . hahah

pyze-guy

True North makes them in part with another company. True north does the frame and Wike bike does the cargo boxes.

cavit8

Urbane used to import Bakfiets but no longer, I think. At least they're not on the website.

https://www.cargobike.ca/

wasted weasel

a while ago there was a guy in Scarborough making his own:
invodane engineering
saw them up close a few times years ago. They looked fairly well built, but maybe not quite the capacity of other long cargo bikes, but I've always secretly wanted one

*edit* beaten to it

nerdsgirth

Anyone share a good Tour De France Torrent lead?

tuz

Curbside had some (pricey) dutch cargo bikes.

exhibitx

demonoid.com should be pretty good, not sure how fast the stages get up, but they do and tend to have lots of seeders, if you want an invite PM me, not sure if registration is open without an invite right now

exhibitx

demonoid.com should be pretty good, not sure how fast the stages get up, but they do and tend to have lots of seeders, if you want an invite PM me, not sure if registration is open without an invite right now

if you get OLN they rerun it at night and i assume versus.com reruns it streaming

jeremywhitehorn

i saw that true north was making them but i was hoping to avoid a custom job because of the cost. i'm going to email that invodane (sp?) guy and ask - i think i remember seeing one of his at the bike show a few years ago.

nerdsgirth

exhibit see PM - I only has internets

cavit8

Not to be a jackass, but you're going to have a hard time finding anything under $2500 - $3000 custom or import. It would be great if they'd be cheaper (I'd buy one myself), but they're really prohibitively expensive, often very heavy, and pretty specialized as haulers go. These are true work bikes. Trailers or home-made extra-cycles work better for mere mortals.

wasted weasel

let us know what he says, I'd be interested (i guess I could always email him). I remember I asked him (or someone from Invodane) about cost... but can't remember if he said something like $1200-$1500 for a frame then built it up from there extra depending on components?! For bike month a few years ago they had a cargo bike meetup at the east york civic center on Coxwell, about a dozen homemade outfits and a couple of his that he offered to people to ride around and try out. kind of unique.

also notice on my last trip back from the island, when getting off the ferry; when you exit through the west side gate right next to the edge of the pier there looks to be an old (possibly abandoned?) long john cargo bike locked up behind a fence. Pretty beat up and sitting on flat tires half covered in rust... not sure if it's still there or not, or who it belongs to.

I_bRAD

I've used the bikes at work trailer from CBN a few times and you can haul a ton of stuff easily on that thing. 500 bucks for an 8' and you can leave it at home when you're not using it.

jeremywhitehorn

the thing that appeals to me about a cargo bike is being able to carry the kid in front of you and still have a nice low centre of gravity. for some reason i feel a bit uncomfortable with him way behind me in a trailer. plus he hates the car and i'm afraid that a trailer will remind him too much of that...

pyze-guy

My son hated the car,now he loves it. Something they seem to grow out of. I don't mind having him in the trailer, and after the intial struggle to get him to wear the helmet, he now runs to the trailer when he sees it, grabs his helmet and tries to put it on. The child hads to be able to sit by themselves and be strong enough to wear a helmet, and have a big enough head too.

I don't find the trailer to be too far back of me. It is quite visable and drivers take extra care when they see me with it attached to the bike. That being said I stick to side streets and don't ride that fast. If you want to give mine a try when I get back in August give it a go.

jet sanchEz

Those 3-wheel'd adult trikes can carry a good amount of cargo and they are fairly cheap. I took my 2 week's worth of garbage down to the depot on one today, it worked really well.

I_bRAD

They have racing seats for the burley trailers for as young as 3 months. I'm going to give one of those a whirl.



We're getting an official "kid" trailer, but I'm also considering getting the bikes at work trailer just 'cause it's so damn useful (especially when you don't have a car) If I get that I'll probably rig up some way to put a child seat designed for a car onto it.

Jeremy- I see where you're coming from with the kid in front of you and all, what about if your wife rides sweep?

I've only ridden a big cargo bike like the one you are talking about a few times, they take a bit of getting used to but smooth sailing once you do. A guy on Sorauren had one of those with a baby seat rigged up in the cargo bay, it worked pretty well for him and his kid has moved to a jump seat on one of those big 'ol dutch bikes with 2 spots on the back for the kiddies. His bike was made by a guy on the island. Local, and around 3 grand. I wasn't too impressed with it though. The concept was nice, but the welding was really sloppy and there were other weird things like XT hubs built up with $2 single wall rims. I could probably find his contact info if you'd like to find out more about his bike... his kids are pretty big now, perhaps he might sell you his!

If you do get a cargo trailer- get good puncture resistant tires! Those big dutch things are a pain in the ass to change a flat on, as you often have an internal hub, drum brake and full chain case as well.

shapelike

That was the best TTT I've ever seen.

TRaffic Jammer

Pretty darned good I must say.

exhibitx

the ben stiller thing was weird

great stage though

zippered

so i saw my friendly neighbourhood traffic cop on the way home today. he had a car stopped at an intersection, lights flashing, blocking the right-turn side of the lane, backing up vehicles for a ways. then he proceeds to get in his squad car and pull (a very messy) U-turn, now further blocking traffic from both directions.

i couldn't resist calling out "nice U-ie, st. clair..." to which i hear a syrupy "why, thank-you"

<ROLL! EYES!>

shapelike

st. clair?