Before we started the project, we did some pretty thorough googling, but were unable to find any center-hub-steering cargo bikes. Now, within the last month we have found no less than three of them. It is a bit of a bummer not being first, but we'll just have to be cheaper, lighter, faster, stronger, all round nicer and easier to build than the competition.
Here are the bikes we found:
Elian Cycles has created a beautiful bike, featuring a hub design related to what we are designing:
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| 01 Cargo by Elian Cycles |
The design and manufacture however is very much a contrast to ours. This is professional craftsmanship, requiring high levels of expertise, while our project follows a
'for dummies, by dummies' approach. Hopefully the prize tag of our bike will also be quite different. The 01 Cargo is listed as costing 3.245 euro. ($ 4.220 / 24.130 dkk)
More in line with our DIY approach, but still requiring specialist skills, is the
Sports Utility Bike. The front hub and wheel is that of an
Italjet scooter.
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| The Sports Utility Bike |
Last is a bike with the oddly familiar name
OpenCargoBike. Like the Sports Utility Bike it has a mono fork-like design. It also has a modular construction, which is related to our way of building, except this seems to require quite a lot of welding.
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| The OpenCargoBike |
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