Name that cargo bike!

Can anyone identify this cargo bike? Or is this a normal bike with a cargo fork kit installed? Not electric, but if it was... while carrying heavy cargo on the front, a hub motor on the small front wheel would mean it won't lose traction while climbing steep hills? It'd also have the small wheel torque hill climbing advantage, and front wheel fallen and stuck in a pothole disaster disadvantage.

Edited August 6, 20241 yr by guerney

Interesting pic.. Thats what i call a Butchers bike, probably because i recall a city Butcher using one as an eye catching prop for the daily specials board when i was a lad.

Looks like your shops are safe from the faridge thugs..

That’s a brave man cycling through the middle of a riot.

Here is a similar one for sale and there are plenty more on eBay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315570069915?_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338343596&toolid=10001&customid=eb%3Ag%3Avms%3Aeb%3Ap%3A315570069915%3BEAIaIQobChMIobfarJvlhwMVfJWDBx1Jfh0tEAQYFiABEgJiGvD_BwE&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADmMgii6PLFicnNL737-_0COXhw4J&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIobfarJvlhwMVfJWDBx1Jfh0tEAQYFiABEgJiGvD_BwE

Edited August 8, 20241 yr by AGS

That’s a brave man cycling through the middle of a riot.

 

Here is a similar one for sale and there are plenty more on eBay.

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/315570069915?_ul=GB&mkevt=1&mkcid=1&mkrid=710-53481-19255-0&campid=5338343596&toolid=10001&customid=eb%3Ag%3Avms%3Aeb%3Ap%3A315570069915%3BEAIaIQobChMIobfarJvlhwMVfJWDBx1Jfh0tEAQYFiABEgJiGvD_BwE&gad_source=1&gbraid=0AAAAADmMgii6PLFicnNL737-_0COXhw4J&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIobfarJvlhwMVfJWDBx1Jfh0tEAQYFiABEgJiGvD_BwE

That's a proper one. The one in the original photo appears to have parallel rigid forks that act as a back-rest for anything on the front platform. They're fitted to a conventional steering head, while as butcher's bikes have conventional rigid forks with a very long steerer tube for the very long steering head. The platform isn't caged either. I think it might be a conversion.

Can anyone identify this cargo bike? Or is this a normal bike with a cargo fork kit installed? Not electric, but if it was... while carrying heavy cargo on the front, a hub motor on the small front wheel would mean it won't lose traction while climbing steep hills? It'd also have the small wheel torque hill climbing advantage, and front wheel fallen and stuck in a pothole disaster disadvantage.

 

 

Wow he's gathered quite the crowd. Although he must be cold, looking at the general attire there.

Thats what i call a Butchers bike, probably because i recall a city Butcher using one as an eye catching prop for the daily specials board when i was a lad.

That's a proper one. The one in the original photo appears to have parallel rigid forks that act as a back-rest for anything on the front platform. They're fitted to a conventional steering head, while as butcher's bikes have conventional rigid forks with a very long steerer tube for the very long steering head. The platform isn't caged either. I think it might be a conversion.

Not quite . It's a newspaper delivery bike, newagents all over the country once had them and I used to ride one on my morning and evening paper rounds in the 1940s.

The low unfenced platform over the small front wheel was for stacks of newspapers to lay flat on. They had a double flap of tarpaulin hanging from the bars at the front to sit behind and over the newspapers for when it was raining. That one has lost its original full mudguards.

Not quite . It's a newspaper delivery bike, newagents all over the country once had them and I used to ride one on my morning and evening paper rounds in the 1940s.

 

The low unfenced platform over the small front wheel was for stacks of newspapers to lay flat on. They had a double flap of tarpaulin hanging from the bars at the front to sit behind and over the newspapers for when it was raining. That one has lost its original full mudguards.

You're right that it's for stacking stuff, but the forks are modern double yoke ones and it has BMX style handlebars. It Hinksey he's just taken a normal bike, put some forks like these on it, welded on the platform and fitted a small wheel. It's ptobably a fixie too because no front brake. He's done it for Deliveroo:

http://www.cruisershop.eu/towar/500/long-double-crown-fork-69-cm-old-110-mm-1-18-black-triple-tree-chopper-cruiser-custom-cc.html

Interesting pic.. Thats what i call a Butchers bike, probably because i recall a city Butcher using one as an eye catching prop for the daily specials board when i was a lad.

In press pics, there doesn't appear to have been much use of microEVs in recent protests: two ebikes, one escooter, and one mobility scooter is all I've spotted. This cargo bike had me Googling for ages, I couldn't find an exact match. Is that a 16" wheel? I wondered if it was some kind of new Dutch flatlander cargo bike, owing to it's single gear. Unless that's some sort of very thin rear hub gear.

Looks like your shops are safe from the faridge thugs..

Evidently, protecting pizza supply evokes strong feeling. Can't think why - most small pizza joints only use something like 40% (or less) real cheese, and the rest is heavily processed plant fats. The clue can be a lack of "Cheese" stringiness. Things get stringy nearer 60% real cheese, when that proportion is a standard commercial pizza blend of mozzarella and other real cheeses.

Edited August 11, 20241 yr by guerney

Not quite . It's a newspaper delivery bike, newagents all over the country once had them and I used to ride one on my morning and evening paper rounds in the 1940s.

 

The low unfenced platform over the small front wheel was for stacks of newspapers to lay flat on. They had a double flap of tarpaulin hanging from the bars at the front to sit behind and over the newspapers for when it was raining. That one has lost its original full mudguards.

Great solution. While conversion kits can be bought and used legally, electrification of old delivery bikes would give them new useful lives. I think this was for delivering unwanted children to orphanages, or transporting a diminutive but big lunged town crier when they ran out of newspapers.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266265909858

Edited August 11, 20241 yr by guerney

You're right that it's for stacking stuff, but the forks are modern double yoke ones and it has BMX style handlebars. It Hinksey he's just taken a normal bike, put some forks like these on it, welded on the platform and fitted a small wheel. It's ptobably a fixie too because no front brake. He's done it for Deliveroo:

http://www.cruisershop.eu/towar/500/long-double-crown-fork-69-cm-old-110-mm-1-18-black-triple-tree-chopper-cruiser-custom-cc.html

I think you're highly likely right. Unless that's a cargo fork kit... he's fitted the front fork from something like a Schwinn Stingray chopper? Resulting in a higher bike frame angle, enabling the installation of a small front wheel?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/363645965647

There'd be loads of torque from a front hub motor then, if that's a 16" wheel. With cargo or luggage weight over that front wheel, less skidding climbing steep hills. It'd probably steer like a cow though, when fully loaded up. Oodles of noodle and pizza stacking space. Or for carrying a highviz inflated fatsuit front bumper.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/226021258425