bikescape, to cargobike
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Rode the Cetma across town a couple of times this morning with the trailer, a bike, and a bunch of random stuff. Not fun on the hills without the motor!

A Cetma cargo bike with a Hinterher trailer attached carrying a purple bicycle.

Andres4NY, to random
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I'm planning make a rain cover for the new (paying $500 for a rain cover feels weird when I spent $600 for the entire bike). However, I'm hoping to not have to sew or really expend much effort. So far, I've got 6mm tent poles, a double side-by-side stroller rain cover, and some metal snaps. The stroller cover fits nicely even on the 32" wide box. I still need to figure out how to attach the tent poles to the stroller cover.

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Andres4NY,
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One of the things I never liked about my other 's blaq designs rain cover (which, admittedly, was high quality and has lasted > 10 years so far) is the included poles don't break down. So when you were riding around and it was sunny, there was no place to stow the rain cover. And because there was no place to stow the cover on/in the bike, there were times when we didn't have the cover and suddenly the weather got bad. Ultimately we just always kept the rain cover on because of that.

Andres4NY,
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These cheap replacement tent poles do break down into 12" segments, so that's something I wish I had a decade ago.

Andres4NY, to cargobike
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Two means twice the fun!

An orange long-john cargo bike with a love seat on the platform, pillows inside the love seat, and a mattress on top of the love seat. A ratchet strap is keeping the stuff in place on the bike.
Both cargo bikes, with two bookshelves visible on the blue bike (one on each side of the rear wheel), and the love seat on the orange bike. The mattress isn't on the orange bike yet.
Another view of the same two bikes with everything loaded up.

Andres4NY, (edited )
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View from the cockpit.

We have another load or two to do (probably tomorrow). Including a full couch.

EDIT: oh, she got a video https://photos.app.goo.gl/x2uTzxjty1Fdhx336

Andres4NY,
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Ended up doing the last load today. Full couch, TV, bed, desk.. The couch was a bit unwieldy , but we only had to go a little over half a mile.

The other side of the blue mid-tail cargo bike. Also in view now is an orange Cetma (long-john) cargo bike with a beige couch on it, and a woman in a bike helmet and blue pants/purple coat adjusting the straps holding it in place.
Same woman posing next to the couch & bike. On top of the couch there's a small desk, pillows, and sheets (covering/protecting a TV).
On the Queens Blvd protected bike lane, view from the back of the woman biking with the couch.

Andres4NY, to cargobike
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Baby 's first haul (with me, at least).

Same orange bike with plywood attached, but taken from behind the bike. The battery on the floor is visible, and the 2 ratchet straps (and a bungie which honestly wasn't doing anything) can be seen; one holding the plywood to the base of the bike, the other holding together the 3 pieces of 8ft long lumber and the sheet of plywood.

Andres4NY,
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Here's the cockpit view. This plywood is going to become the bike box.

When I was leaving, someone was like, "hey it's a Home Depot bike!". I didn't even realize until then that the color scheme of the bike and the store matched.

pjrt,
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@Andres4NY yo! Why isn't that a thing? Home Depot should keep a couple of cargo bikes for people to rent on the cheap!

They would pay for themselves in no time.

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enobacon,
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@Andres4NY and can't roll up a curb?

Andres4NY,
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@enobacon It's not much, but there's a little bit of splashing forward from the front wheel when it cuts through a puddle (eg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x8nHVOUUXY https://stock.adobe.com/video/the-bike-rides-through-a-muddy-puddle-shooting-in-slow-motion-of-bicycle-wheels/609041765 ).

The Cetma has a longer wheelbase, so maybe the forward splashing is bad at the back wheel too? 🤷

Could be they noticed gunk on the motor & added the mud flap. Or it could be they spent a lot of money on the motor & just wanted to be extra careful. I'd guess the latter.

Andres4NY, to random
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Bummed that my didn't come with a connector to power headlights.. but I've got my Margo with a that does have headlight connectors, & a dynamo hub on the front wheel. So I can move the dynamo hub wheel onto the BBSHD Cetma Largo, & use that for lighting. The TSDZ2 Cetma Margo can switch to using the ebike motor/battery for powering lights.

But seriously, why would you make an ebike motor w/out light connections? (newer BBSHDs now include connectors, I think)

bikescape,
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@Andres4NY Thanks. I have one of those and was never able to get it to work with my motor. I’ll give it another go. None of the displays I’ve looked at are certified as waterproof, so when I find one that works I’ll have buy some spares to keep on hand for when they fail. The current display only lasted a year.

Andres4NY,
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@bikescape Wow, that's not very long!

Andres4NY, to cargobike
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Here's what the install ends up looking like on my . I haven't cleaned up the zip ties yet because the battery is only temporary (I'm going to get a smaller one that fits better).

Instead of the standard anchor bracket, I screwed a chain tensioner into that anchor bolt hole (https://cycles.eco/collections/tsdz2-accessories-parts/products/chain-guide-for-tsdz2?variant=) because eccentric bottom bracket + chainstay. There's some foam protecting the frame in case the motor moves.

Zoomed in on the underside of the bottom bracket/motor, non-drivetrain side. You can see the small chain tensioner cog bolted into the motor. The Motor hangs down below the bottom bracket, under the white frame. There's some cables bunched up under there, too, and sloppily zip-tied.
Zoomed in on the front of the motor, again non-drivetrain side. The black motor hangs below the frame, and nestled between the white bike frame and black motor is a piece of grey (partially crushed) foam. Another unclipped zip tie is on the frame, holding a (not visibe battery) cable.
Non-drivetrain side, zoomed out, viewing the bottom bracket/motor. The chainring is in the background, the motor hangs below the bottom bracket, and there's another rusty old pedal attached to the brand new crank arm. Sloppy black zip ties hold motor wires to the frame. There's a black eccentric bottom bracket visible that the motor is attached to; the bolts for the eccentric BB are visible over the motor's silver lock ring. The eccentric BB is adjusted so that the bottom bracket is at 6 o-clock, because the motor is expected to be installed in a normal bottom bracket with minimal space between the BB shell and BB.

Andres4NY,
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You can see the bolt hole that I installed the chain tensioner into here (second pic): https://social.ridetrans.it/@Andres4NY/109898713519579220

Andres4NY,
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@kevinschaper I decided to keep the G70 hailong battery shared between the bikes, but installed off to the side like so. There's a key lock on one side and the power button on the other, so if it were centered one or the other would be unreachable.

This Cetma came with a Luna wolfpack battery, which was strapped where the back of the box is. During rides it shakes up and down and bends the plastic platform; this is a lot more stable since it partially rests on the metal frame.

view from the back of the same battery/bike. Here you can see that the back of the battery touches the steer tube, and extends left from there (parallel to the back of the bike box).
The battery is gone now, but the battery mount is visible where it once was.
close-up view of the battery mount, showing how it's screwed down to the black plastic platform.

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