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Cargo Bikes Without Electric (lemmy.ca)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Living in Montreal I’ve gotten to the point where I only ride my own bike when I’m transporting paniers of stuff or doing an overnight trip. I installed a double kickstand on my old bike and its worked well until today when my old frame kicked the bucket. I realized that what I basically want is a slightly long tail cargo bike. A rack that’s big and built in, not electric, normal sized wheels and straight handlebars. The weird thing is, I can’t find this product. I’d assume it would be a popular choice for people touring with a lot of kit, but almost everything I’ve found seems to be for electric urban cruising with a couple of kids on the back. Has anyone else looked for this product and encountered a similar gap in the market?

The Yuba Mundo Lux is probably as close as I’ve seen, but has anyone done a few full days on it? It’s probably too much to spend if it can’t handle a few days on tour.

Edit: I’ve decided to dabble with a cheap second hand aluminum Kona Ute, because I live in a salted road winter an aluminum frame is good to have around. If I like it, I’ll probably invest in an electric option for the other 3 seasons.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I used to live and bike in Philly on the bike share and it was pretty good back in 2015, have things just stalled out or something?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, sadly it doesn't feel like they've done a whole lot to expand things in the last decade.

The bike share is decent enough, but the situation with the actual bike lanes is pretty abysmal. Where the lanes even exist, you're lucky if you can make it a block or two at a time without them being blocked by a delivery truck, someone just straight-up parked there, or a dumpster or construction materials/equipment, and Philly traffic is scary enough in a car, let alone a bike.

Though to give credit where it's due, I do love some of the bike trails we have, the Schuylkill river trail, Fairmount park, the Perkiomen trail out in the suburbs, etc. all great to enjoy a rid, but not necessarily to get from point a to point b.