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Yup bmw and many other motorcycle mftr have made and perfected front end that don't use a regular telescopic fork, especially for larger and heavier use machines. Many benefits as you say including brake dive isolation.

More pics. Alloy sections have a rad dark grey on light grey speckle, kinda looks like dirt as haven't cleaned it or done anything yet.

Got this 1994/5 ish Trek 8300 carbon. Tubes bonded into alloy lugs style, but lots of nice features on thr frame, minimal corrosion, used but not wrecked, no play or tubes coming apart yet. Mostly original parts on it suntour mtb thumbs and shifter, I think an early xt or xtr rear qr if anyone can identify it, suntour foe most of the other parts.
Fork is wrong, think it's about 4 or 5 years newer but geometry ok.
Going to try and it get it as original as I can
Makes a nice contrast to a modern29er carbon enduro machine!
Customers mint Mtrax Ti, very original extremely low use and again functional no failed joints yet.
Also have an early 9s xt equipped Orange Prestige lying around thats in very tidy condition, Judy long travel and Use fittings. Never meant to but slowly building a classic mtb collection

How old? Current gen hopes use a liner of some kind between the caliper bore and the piston,to mitigate similar issue.
Would hey new pistons and seals from hope, doesn't take much dirt and wear to make pistons behave weird

This is a common experience with any cargo that uses suspension forks, none of thrm are upto the job IME. Catastrophic play developing within 600 miles in some cases. But usually wobble on till around 2000 miles until the movement gets so bad folk finally look at changing them. Tern, R+m and Ua all use similar fork and all give their excuses when you go looking for a replacement beyond warranty period.
Having a fork is a nice idea on a family orientated bike and advise would be get the fork lowers off and have it greased with fork /suspension grease on day 1 when the bike is new. Then strip and regress every 6 months of regular use, or 1000 miles, whichever happens first. If you do that they will last much longer, bushs will still wear but the stanchions won't be eaten through with corrosion and physical wear!

Remi demi is great, didn't realise the price has gone up so much. I have a new one for sale in Glasgow for last year's price, it's grey, new/1 mile on it, has a passenger jump aeat and pannier attachment and I think a red front basket?
They are ideal foe folk moving one kid from as small as they can be in a thule yupp up to about 12. Then stick your bag on the front rack and the bike remains within thr physical foot print of a regular bike.
Stock tyres aren't super puncture proof but tbh none of the balloon tyre bikes are

Go and check the forums, loads of info on thrm. I think if you have the higher spec ES model with a cd changed in it then you can use a yatour cd changer emulator and then either plug a line into it to your device of choice or add an aptX Bluetooth device which gives you about as good as Bluetooth gets kind of connection (regular Bluetooth sucks for music tbh)

Or rip it out and install a dash cover

My ex was around old vic for about 2 years during 2008 - 10. Didn't see the guy much themselves but was obviously around folk that were full time, a few straight guys and two openly gay guys, none were apparently bothered by the guy. But none were exactly enamored with him, maybe not a sociopath but not an easy person to work with or around.

Hcm is tame compared to Hanoi!

But yeah offski for a bit, year at least, will see what happens, need to get some more adventures in the go as really expensive now to do much in Europe unless you are rolling in it.

Mad 2als fun, I've defo heard some aggressive 2s but not seen any close up, speed limits aren't really a thing, but traffic police do carry tasers there and been seen to use them on moving targets!

I'm moving over end of the year, means new bike time when there. Ideally pass local test, proper insurance card and bike in my own or a mates name, i. E as legit as poss as Vietnam police are really cracking down on illegal riding especially rural areas it's easy for them to stop just about everyone.

Honda adv 160 is likely thr ticket was going to get a pcx but they haven't importer them either since 2018 approx. So might as well go for a pcx with extra suspension and toys.
Anything bigger than 160cc (the new cap since 2018) attracts big tax duties and more attention as they stand out due to size.

Plan to settle for a few months and get paperwork in order as can then travel the peninsula without much bother over the winter. Hammock, minimal crap and take camera gear and just cruise about basically. Thai coast is most expensive area, so staying awya from that you can go a long way on not a lot.
Modern injection hondas get around 2.5L/100km easily, use less if cruising (no one in Vietnam really goes more than about 70kmh even when road is empty) and cost about 65-70p a litre just now (falling). Bigger bikes use more fuel, suck in busy cities, can't use them on thr open road anyway, massive import duties (a £22k ots harley will cost more like £70-85k to get on the road!!!) and stand out so it's a field day for police.

Any fancy hammock with build in bug net that works (big rough to actually move around) and tarp combo. For a hot country use with moderate but problem (not australia bad).
Eno double jungle seems about right. Important to have a water break on the lines though, some of them like hennesy use a metal t toggle to 1) make setup faster 2) bug and water drip point

Tbh apart from weird wheel size and not fitting decent hydraulic brakes (even shimano cheapest would be ok) I thought the radpower long tail was good, certainly for£2-3k price point they do a lot of things right. Wrote a review about 6 months back.
Company had the spine to admit there was a tyre problem (mostly caused by cheap rim tape which any bike shop could fix regardless of mftr) and then did something about it, most of these new companies will not do that, they'll just fold and pop up under a new name. Kudos to them for doing the right thing.

Negative, new distributor looks to be in finland!

Buy a benno boost instead ;)

Nexus 5 is yeah mostly over geared if that makes sense. For uk use would fit a smaller chainring (34t i think it's smallest?) and a 30t sprocket on the back, even then 5th gear is pointless but slightly more hill climbing ability. As with all igh, don't add forward momentum when changing gear.

Nexus 5 are fairly fragile tbh, but if you do treat them with mechanical sympathy they work well enough

Btw if anyone wants their partner to get significantly better at being a pillion send then to Vietnam (or any of se asia tbh) for a few months, best way around without riding yourself is on a grab bike. Traffic is always full on.
3 months later and i now have the perfect sack of flour that never flinches no matter the situation. They can now also ride side saddle with a phone in one hand foot directions and a bag of shopping in the other.

Most important thing is the bung fully supports the stem + a few mm for good measure. That was stem is clamping fork steerer is clamping the bung. Otherwise you can get at the least cosmetic damage which can make stem and spacers hard to move out worst fork failure. There's a thead on it somewhere.

Basically the same. In the Uk there is a huge push going on not really behind the scenes by Trek and Spesh to buy up a lot of shops or at least get some contracts laid out.
Cargo bikes are super niche and in the uk at least will remain super niche for near another ten years yet.
Only small and weird bike shops (like us and many others on here) have bothered to push cargo bikes in the Uk at all, small to no margins (except tern and r+m, big fat margins on those boys), difficult to acquire, difficult to warranty now thanks to Brexit import /export issues. Very low numbers sold per shop, this year especially slow. And now the big boys from the US (with similar thick margins), Europe like Cube are starting to really get into this market. Sure they'll sell the demo bike that they are contractually obliged to stock in, and maybe one more, then they won't get another, won't have any mechanics that truly know what they are doing, and your£5-6k trek long tail will be impossible to get a fork or any other accessories for within 5 year guaranteed.
At least with the regular euro brands, R+m, gazelle, ua, bullitt, omnium and all the dozens of Dutch and now French and Italian offering yes it may not be super quick to get a replacement fork for a 2015 premium cargo bike, but it will at least exist and you will eventually get it.
Beware industry has seen this market behavior dozens of times on repeat for decades.

'MR'
'MS'
'MA'
'MB'
etc there are loads of these
Are the terms shimano use for those 4 bolt road chainring type, it means only some of them work with other inner + outer as a matched pair otherwise they don't shift very well.
Check Shimano tech docs and I also find SJS cycles website is good for explaining about chainrings, we run a shop but sometimes end up referencing a few places like SJS for a sanity check on whats what.

Stop using immediately. Seek professional advise.

Non professional advise...... If its a cheap bike then corrosion on all sorts is going to hapoen. Best uk outdoor storage solution is to be protected from above and the back from weather, but with front open. A lean to against shed to stop almost all the rain falling on it and then plenty of air flow so it will dry asap. Avoid waterproof covers.

If could be a slight anoidic affect caused by the electrical fault causing extra corrosion (like a boat). What bike is it exactly?

Mr vs ms I think the shimano chainring terms your after

Ta specialises and a bunch of other people make aftermarket rings foe slightly less than the probably obsolete shimano ones

Been a mtber for 20+ years. It's the one thing I don't do for customers. Older lyric and pike sort of size forks from about ten years ago seemed to have an issue with the lower bush rattling up the casting = slacker

Have a 30,32 and 36mm tool i made up on a lathe many years ago but not 35mm. There now 38 and 40 and the cost of material and machine time just to make a head, ignoring the rest of the thing is gonna be over £150. So the£350 isn't actually that bad#

#perfectly justifies bike tools being mad high pricey

New pro5 has like zero drag built two now and Beth impressed. Beware with xd driver there's a thing you have to do with fitting cassette and then taking it off again to push the spacer thing into the hub. Microspline is a bit different but also like zero drag.

Can't imagine that dirt sealing is as good

I could sense that impact from beginning of description, nasty!

Can confirm hgv can hit various things and not hear, feel it or really even notice. Neighbours parked car (skoda supurb estate) got hooked by a rigid body truck and flung into a junction and dragged along a few other cars. Probably £100k of damage in 30 seconds and the guy only really stopped as a dog walker in the road they turned into jumped out and stopped them. Was about 8 cars scraped to death by the supurb bumper attachment. Whilst it's no fault and no injuries at all, means my postcode insurance will now be up for next millenia....

Ebay as a company sell this or a seller on their platform sells it through ebay?

If former interesting. If later what thr sort of dodge ones do is start a new company every so often and avoid their uk retail responsibility. No idea on that brand but have seen first hand hundreds of junk e bikes and junk batteries, so many have very convincing uk retail websites, rohs stickers etc, but still fake burn your house down garbage.
Doesn't mean yours is, but just beware vast majority are junk and these sellers will go to good length to hide that fact.

Most recent example is a brand called "eskute" look almost like a cube, have a genuine bafang mid drive in them. But frame and fork are trash quality, very questionable fork construction to the point we rejected pdi'ing the bike and suggested they return it. Steel steerer, but had so much flex, IN THE STEERER! that I rejected it as defective/dangerous.
Brakes are fake Chinese domestic knock off of entry level shimano, gears actually were fine.
"eskute" is in the higher price point of bad bikes, the genuine bafang had me fooled for about 20 mins into it until I started really looking at it.

Beware people.

Yeah the 1st gen and maybe 2nd gen so 2008 to 2011 its possible if you see a skinny seat tube, but TBH all of those broke well over a decade ago, they fixed it from 2011 IIRC and frames are best in the industry now. Bullitts don't brake anymore unless you crash into something solid.