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There is loads of room for knees and they don't come anywhere near the box. The box has a limited turn, there are stops underneath near the rear corners of the box, so you can only move it to that stop against the frame.

Mine has a loading capacity of 150kg. I take that to mean load in addition to me.

Well I'll just copy my other one to here...

Thanks guys - I am currently having great fun with it. We are in Aberdeen, North East Scotland.

I am quite fortunate in that we have 6 miles of unbroken, surfaced shared use path (old railway line) close by, which is a direct "express" route straight from where we live into the city. Tree lined, no significant hills, no traffic or roads to navigate along its entire length. It's all very pleasant!

I've commuted by bike for quite a few years now (all weather - I have a bike with ice tyres on for winter), along the same route, and this now allows me to mainly do my shopping, but also journeys to recycling centre, taking the toolbox for minor repairs to places I help out at, etc. I'm sure more opportunities will come along for it that I haven't even thought of yet!

iandusud wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 9:20am I also find that don't use the electric assist a lot of the time. With a load on board once up and running it has a huge amount of momentum so on the flat or with even the slightest downhill gradient it flies along. When I do use the electric assist I generally use it on level 2 of 5 unless the gradient is steep. I'm not in a hurry and I like to put in some effort, otherwise it feels like I'm cheating

Yes I've found the same - any downhill at all and it picks up its own momentum which gets it over 15.5mph (at which point any assist cuts out anyway).

The other side benefit of it as I was actually able to hide in the cargo box (it's that big!) when photographing birds - it did cause one of our Red Kites to come over really close to investigate why some weird human was curled up in a box.

It allowed me to get some great shots of it though.

Dingdong wrote: ↑23 Apr 2022, 6:17am Just out of interest, what kind of range does it have?

So far it's doing over 25 miles on a full charge on the runs I've done... A ot of that is pretty flat though, and I haven't been pushing max speed all the way.

You could also try openstreetmap for directions - it has a couple of different cycle route engines...

https://www.openstreetmap.org/direction ... er_bicycle
https://www.openstreetmap.org/direction ... _osrm_bike

You can type in location or drag/drop the little red/green pins onto the map.

Carlton green wrote: ↑20 Apr 2022, 7:15pm I checked the link and was surprised at how reasonable the price seemed, particularly so with electric assist. The unassisted bikes are relatively affordable too. A two wheeled version (Long John) would suit me better but what you have seems very handy to me, enjoy.

Yeah - I would say self assembly isn't for the faint hearted, but there is a UK distributor, who can provide them fully assembled... for a higher cost of course. https://www.e-bikesdirect.co.uk/cargo-electric-bikes/

Paulatic wrote: ↑20 Apr 2022, 5:50pm Can it pull that horse trailer it’s yoked upto

Lol - yeah, that'd be quite something wouldn't it. .

Jdsk wrote: ↑20 Apr 2022, 5:38pm What is it, please?

Jonathan

Hi Jonathan - it is an "Ultimate Curve" with the "dog" door
From amcargobikes... https://amcargobikes.co.uk/product/elec ... ate-curve/

So I finally took the plunge and bought a cargo bike (with electric assist!), for the supermarket shopping and other general things which need a bit bigger capacity - carrying tools etc!

It's actually great fun, although quite weird to get used to the steering of it (and it certainly has a quite wide turning circle), plus you can't take corners fast, as I have found out by ending up in the grass verge. Most of my route is pretty flat and the electric pedal assist is great there - we have a quite steep hill near our house though, and even on full assist it still is quite a workout to get up there when loaded though.

It came "80% assembled - only takes 2-4 hours to complete". Two days later I had finally worked out where the dozens and dozens of different sized bolts went, and how to route the hydraulic brakes, as the four pieces of A4 assembly instructions left quite a bit to be desired. But got there in the end, and really pleased with it.