Home-Made Cargo Bike Is Cheap, Easy Rider

Want to trade your expensive car for a cheap bike in œThese Troubled Economic Times? Scared that you might not be able to create those monthly mega-mart runs and still carry home all that necessary junk food? Clearly a purpose-made cargo bike is out of the question, as it is a relatively expensive specialist machine. We have the answer: A hacked together cargo bike.

Flickr user Harvwoien took two feeble beaters and joined them together. The front bike is unmodified, other than the removal of the rear wheel. The rear bike has been more drastically chopped, and is now missing its down-tube. The finish of the top-tube has been hammered flat and drilled and then bolted onto the back of the seat-post of the front bicycle, and its bottom-bracket bolted to the dropouts.

Lastly, an feeble derailleur has been used to guide the chain through the frankenframes, and a pair of wire baskets hung on the sides to carry cargo. Although rather scrappy, the solution is elegant in its simplicity, and while it doesnt have the flat load-bed of some ready-made options, you execute acquire the extra stability of a long wheelbase. Now, imagine this made with an feeble mixte or step-through frame, and the extra load-space it would give, and you have a rather splendid and cheap bike, ready for a shopping trip. Bonus: Its so ugly, nobody would ever steal it.

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