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Stumbled upon a cycletruck I hadn't seen before during morning patina-hunting. Perhaps this was what Frances Cycles was referencing with their Platypus? Absolutely love the color.

Roadmaster Cycle Truck.

Such a fucking bruiser of a cargo bike. I love it.

Sounds like there will be an explosion of ‘cargo’ bikes that are what people have wanted for generations - well-engineered shoppers.

Well yeah? Aren't the vast majority of cargo bikes used for transportation/kid hauling/grocery getting?

I didn't want to start a thread but what happened to

Thomson has a whole pile of prototypes that never made it to production for one reason or another - often because they can't be produced to the standards he's looking for.

Paul Tall & Handsome as a sub?

Looks like cargo is splintering into sub-genres. This is supposedly a "light duty cargo bike" that carries less than the GSD, but is more capable than the Vektron. Sports the new Performance Line motor.

I'm both excited to see it, and absolutely dreading the inevitable QC issues of the first production run.

Nice Rohloff Bullitt!

Lovely form factor - but forward-face horizontal drop-outs with an Belt-Drive-IGH? I don't know about that one.

The mounting position of that headlight rustles my jimmies so bad.

Far more interesting than a Crust fork.

Absolutely porn-worthy. Even has my favorite gruppo :3

Your light's upside down though...

Love stuff like this!

We've seen issues with these not having enough retention for disc brake bikes. Use that info as you will.

RE: Gates Belt Drive

I need to do some research between now and December. Gates apparently has stiffness requirements for running their belts on any given frame, the issue being that your rear triangle can flex enough for the belt to skip/get caught on the teeth of the cog. I've so far read specifically that oversized chainstays are preferred, which the Tradesperson doesn't have.

It'd be a shame to find that after investing in having a break put in the frame, and spending 10X as much on a chainring/cog/belt drivetrain that my frame is too noodley for it to be viable.

Thanks! You get it.

The Tradesperson is my only bike currently. I don't own a car, and while I rarely ride more than 100km in a given week, I do ride it every day.

I work at a cargo-specific shop and spend a fair amount of time working with and riding on both the Rohloff and Nuvinci (Enviolo), and while the Nunvinci is super cool and we've had a lot of success having them on our Bosch cargo bikes, the range isn't quite enough for an acoustic cycletruck in Seattle... at least not for my baby legs.

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To clarify for anyone reading, I'm not trying to justify purchasing a Rohloff - I think they're neat, and I want one. I'm fortunate enough to work at a place where I can get one at cost -which puts it within financial reach for me- and I'm excited to take advantage of that.

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It's silly because it's expensive?

I agree with @tallsam, it seems a bit silly to buy a Rohloff for a grocery bike...

Why's that?

The red electrical tape repair on the bars is a nice touch.

Do you ride it a lot? Personally I'd only buy a Rohloff if I knew I was going to ride that bike near enough 100% of the time I ride.

Sounds like a bunch of marketing wankery aimed at freds looking for microgains on their weekend group rides to me.

Not updating the title of this just yet, but I've been in talks with a local frame builder to have the frame modified this winter. It's taken nearly a year to get around to it, but I'm glad I waited as my needs and tastes have changed in that time.

The agreed upon checklist is as follows:

• Replacing the BB shell with an oversized one to run an eccentric BB for chain/belt tensioning
  
• Braising a torque stud onto the NDS dropout for a Rohloff OEM2 torque arm.
  
• Adding guides for dynamo wiring
  
• Adding guides & stops for Rohloff routing
  
• Adding a break in the DS seatstay for Belt Drive
  
  

I already have the money set aside for the frame mods, but the shop doesn't work on outside frames until winter time. After that the hope is that the following spring I'll be able to secure a Rohloff for this bike with my tax return.

Can you tell us how you changed the radius on the front mudguard? I'd like to try it for my own 20'' front wheel.

There's photo documentation on the 3rd page. You decrease the radius of an alloy fender by pulling the rolled edges on either side away from each other. It's an inch-by-inch process that takes time and strong hands, but it's worth it.

Here's a post on VO's blog about it: https://velo-orange.com/pages/re-radiusing-fenders

What's the fork?

Bosch just announced a cargo-specific motor line in normal and speed versions