Elephant Bikes

[D C]

I just happened to see this, I wonder if it would make the basis of a good and cheap cargo bike conversion for someone?
https://elephantbike.co.uk/
Heavy and only 3 speed but maybe with a Woosh front hub kit and hydraulic front disc brake.
Should last for ever.
Dave.

 

[JuicyBike]

I just happened to see this, I wonder if it would make the basis of a good and cheap cargo bike conversion for someone?
https://elephantbike.co.uk/
Heavy and only 3 speed but maybe with a Woosh front hub kit and hydraulic front disc brake.
Should last for ever.
Dave.

Two bikes for the price of one, and you don't even have to ride the second bike. Elephant Bikes are wonderful people and I can thoroughly recommend them.

 

[Deleted member 4366]

Drum brakes make it very difficult to convert - not for your average amateur.

 

[mike killay]

I wonder if a Woosh crank drive kit would fit one of them?

 

[Woosh]

yes Mike.
Paul Arnett did that with a GSM CD kit.

 

[D C]

I guess you would have to change the forks, is it even possible to get a 24 inch fork with a disc brake fitting.
Maybe a mid drive if it would fit.
It's getting more of a challenge.
I'd really love to own one but four bikes already and can't possibly see a use for it for me, particularly with the hills in these parts.
Maybe if I was younger I could wait till they are on ebay in ten years or so and make a good profit

Dave.

 

[mike killay]

Are the wheels 24 inch?

 

[Deleted member 4366]

26" wheels.

The bottom bracket doesn't look like a standard 68mm, so you'd need to check what it is before thinking about a crank-drive motor

 

[grldtnr]

This is a resurrection of a previous thread, I have had an intimate relationship of the Nellie bikes, in a previous life ,many of these bikes were British postal bikes, and I used to service them as Royal mail bike mechanic, I knew them as Mailstar 5 bikes.
Many have had hard lives, used , abused, any one needs advice, I might help

 

[Deleted member 4366]

This is a resurrection of a previous thread, I have had an intimate relationship of the Nellie bikes, in a previous life ,many of these bikes were British postal bikes, and I used to service them as Royal mail bike mechanic, I knew them as Mailstar 5 bikes.
Many have had hard lives, used , abused, any one needs advice, I might help

What bottom bracket do they have?

 

[Woosh]

Paul Arnett did not mention any issue with the bottom bracket when he fitted the GSM kit.

 

[grldtnr]

What bottom bracket do they have?

We're supplied with SKS & FAG sealed units, not got measurements to hand ,but can find out when back at work,sadly I work processing mail now, Royal mail don't use cycles from our office now ,but have supplies left over for postie's that kept their bike to commute to work officially all bikes and parts have been scrapped, there is an element of the Nelson touch, 'I see no ship's'.

 

[D C]

Are the wheels 24 inch?

It says the front wheel is 24" in the FAQ's, rear wheel 26"

https://elephantbike.co.uk/faqs/

 

[grldtnr]

It says the front wheel is 24" in the FAQ's, rear wheel 26"

https://elephantbike.co.uk/faqs/

Yes, that's correct, seems odd,but RM specced them that way to give the load more stability, I always thought it stupid, better to have both wheels the same, the previous bike had the British 26" , then when MTB's came popular things were changed to the American 26", Royal mail specced Hub brakes after they ditched the old Dawes post bike which had rod brakes,0r to say roller brakes as correct.

Here ends a short history lesson on postal bikes.