an affordable cargo trike
 

www.haleytrikes.com

i barrowed one when i was moving and it was great, i strapped dressers to the top etc.... I didnt know if you guyes had heard of him before

Ooo. I think the Display Trike would be awesome for my jewellery business. But their student/artist discount would have to be VERY substantial, with a list price of $1260 US!!!

For a true industrial strength cargo trike visit .........

www.worksman.com

Their market is cycles that work and carry VERY heavy loads as a matter
of course. My Worksman PAV trike, as an example, is rated at 550 lbs and
will easily carry much more!! Then there is the value built into a Worksman
trike.......what you get in every part is a heavy duty part made for work not
a bike part adapted for work. Pound for pound you get more,much more, in
a Worksman cycle than any other work cycle on the market today from a
100+ yr old American cycle company whose only business is work cycles.

I like the Worksman models, but I am concerned about the gearing. Charleston is not the capital of The Mountain State for no reason. Suffice it to say that there are streets here up which a car labors. I am thinking of starting a pedicab and/or human powered delivery service, but unless we restrict our territory to the Flats, I am not sure that most of the machines I have seen can make it; nor am I sure that with such restrictions that the service would be viable.

Worksman,for some reason, only offers trikes w/3 speed internal hubs with 23T or 20T front sprockets that really help. Worksman offers 7 speed hubs but only on their 2 wheelers.

Would any trike work on big hills? I don't know but it'd be work due to the extra weight of
the 3 wheeler. Worksman does offer electric assist but is adds $$$$ to the price.

Would it be possible to replace the threespeed hubs on the trikes with seven- or eight-speeds? Or replace the front sprockets with ones with a better number?

Oh yes, very easy to do. The hang up comes finding a welder who can weld a sprocket to the hub
without destroying the hub or warping it. Once you get by that hurdle the rest is simple wrench
work.

As to the front sprocket....
Worksman offers the 23T as an even exchange for the standard 32T with a new 20T now also offered.


I'd have a new 8 speed if I could find a really good welder but alas none live near me.

I'm surprised that the price of the Worksman trikes are so much less than the Haleys. I thought that Worksman was considered the standard for industrial bikes.

Worksman IS the standard for industrial bikes!! NO ONE makes a tougher work cycle. Nobody!

How Worksman keep the price down is they use mild steel tubing that is welded on site and all
work is done in house by the 50 or so employee's who make up a "do it all" crew. ALL the parts
on a Worksman are heavy duty which means no hi tech materials are used anywhere to save weight
that drives up the price. Common simple steels and motorcycle wheel parts from Taiwan all work to
keep the cycle indutrial tough but low in price compared to racer boy weight weenie cycles.

You won't ever go fast on a Worksman but your grandchildren will be able to ride it when the
racer boy stuff is in the junk pile.