Show me the jury rigged shit you've cobbled together yourself instead of buying from a store. 5gal bucket panniers, homemade bags, diy anti-theft solutions, etc.p.s., picrel was absolute useless 3d printing and raspberry pi bullshit
xyz cargo bikes makes all their bikes out of square aluminium sections and fasteners even has one free plan for recumbent trike you can even add a roof to it
>>1983022ive always wanted a roof on my bike
>>1982831>Convert the seat stem of your bike to a 12 gauge barrel, pointing up>Set up simple slamfire mechanism and trigger>Bike thieves either get their hand blown off (sic semper furibus), or blows their testicles off so bike thieves are bred out of the gene pool.
I made some shitty brackets for a rear rack once just by bending some galvanized sheet metal and drilling a hole for a bolt.The bike didn't have a suitable braze on on the frame, and the brackets for sale were more than I could justify, so fifteen minutes and some sheet metal it was.
I don't have a metal shop unfortunately but I made a ton of 3D printed things for bikes.My best design so far is a flexible bar mount smartphone holder, pic rel.Also madeBracket for bellDecorative bash guardValve capsBottle holder bracketsExcentric spacer to correct FD offsetMount for head light, which I ripped off a trashed bike in the streetCurrently working on a smiley faced rear light
>>1983022Gonna make one of these. Disappointed that they don't have all the plans online or even for sale. They say they have some secret sauce they can only tell you about at their workshops in Berlin. Bro I'm an American.
are there any resources for making your own cargo bike?
>>1986773See >>1983022I'm planning to make a recumbent trike based on the XYZ system, with a wide platform similar to their Parkcycle. I'm still kicking around ideas for the fairing, as I want it to pop up into a fairly large camper.
the only way to properly unstuck a stuck cassette
>>1987279I used a post from a downed chain link fence and stuck the little nub of the cassette cracker in there once
>>1987279beautiful
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>>1985328if i had a 3d printer id be doing the same thingi always need more brackets and little plasti doodads
>>1986773just buy / build a trailer lol
>>1987279how the fuck does that even happen???????ive resorted to shit like this for freewheels but ive never had that much trouble with a cassette in my life
>>1987494engineering genius tbqh
>buy $16 spesh toque clone on ali>uncomfortable >buy $20 toque clone with layer of foam on it >meh>find some nice foam inside a package I open>cut it and glue it down with contact cement >good, but on a long ride it doesn't hold up >go to the place in the store where they sell shoe insoles >get the gel heel cups>put them on and temporarily wrap the saddle with saran wrap to try them out >move them around until they feel right >glue them down >glue doesn't stick to the gel>have some silicone "tape" for repairing holes in garden hose >sticks to nothing but itself >wrap it around the cutout >test ride >perfect.just got home. finally have a usable toque clone.and, oh yeah, I painted all the carbon blue because all my componentry is silver not black
>>1991372surfacing the carbon for paint
>>1987279I have seen this exact picture on reddit.
>>1991411probably in a thread where the solution to a seized cassette was to wedge the wheel against a wall.
>>1983022if I ever go there I am 100% gonna get their plans and then just open source them. knowledge should be free
>>1991690You can already download the plans from their website here:https://www.xyzcargo.com/about/
