Our local police department's bike patrol uses Fujis. Bruce Alan Wilson http://www.wvdemolay.org/ http://nationalmssociety.org/gotobruce_alan_wilson The...
I built a folding WideLoader. You can look at it on the following links. It is also in the photo section here at rootsradical. I'm using the stock kickstand....
... Wow, thank you so much for all of the photos, and especially for the part numbers! I have to say, you've put the 'wide' back in wideloader. That thing...
nice build! very well done. also, thanks for including the part #s. I've been searching for good hardware to use for xtracycle accessories, and these are...
I am a little crazed. , but I do have an odd idea. Maybe everyone here will think I am over the edge. But I have a small motorcycle that I just love. The...
People in Taiwan have been doing this sort of thing for decades. I can still occasionally see trikes where the single front wheel is the front end of a...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 20, 2012 3:13 am
I am considering buying a small trailer to do the cargo thing. But the Honda is pretty small so I need to keep it light. The xtracycle is such a perfect...
Well, the default motorbike in Taiwan is 50cc. It wasn't until the last few years that they've allowed anything >250cc on the roads. They had legitimate...
Which motorcycle do you have? I was considering the same thing not long ago but ended up selling the motorcycle for unrelated reasons. My plan though was to...
... If you're going the wheelbase route, check out pictures of drag bikes with extended swingarms for ideas. They've done it to keep high-powered motorbike's...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 20, 2012 4:58 pm
I had already thought of the long wheelbase frame by using a longer swingarm because a bolt on would be just trouble waiting to happen. I wanted to keep the...
http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=698507 Here is a thread i started once when i was thinking about putting cargo bags on my dual sport...
... I like the way it drives the rear wheel directly, using what I'd describe as a flip-flop hub, only I imagine both sides freewheel. That motor looks way...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 21, 2012 9:44 pm
I have a Curries drive on my X right now. Works well. But needs batteries. SLA sucks. Heavy, inefficient. And heavy. Did I mention heavy? I know a guy who...
... People have been working on the use of hobby R/C LiPo batteries instead of SLA for e-bikes. There's an e-bike forum with discussion of this. HobbyKing...
For some of us, our xtracycle IS the truck. And before we got the xtracycle, our motorbike was the truck. CL who has moved house many times with just a 90 cc...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 22, 2012 4:14 pm
There is no doubt that the xtracycle is the greatest cargo carrier in the two wheel world. My problem is distance. And of course the winter. Not bad this...
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rootsradicals-owner@y...
Feb 23, 2012 4:29 am
Thanks for the inspiration folks: http://everydayadventurers.com/2012/02/longtail-standard-makes-everything-more-useful/ -Nate...
Here's a few examples of Taiwan's cargo motorbikes. Excepting the wheelchairs, all vehicles here are 50-250 cc. ...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 23, 2012 11:52 am
For several years I used my xtracycle as both transportation and as a stand for my balloon and magic show. It worked really well. I could hit the farmers...
You're right. That wasn't the most brilliant thing for me to say, especially here! It's true at some point though, there is a limit to what one can carry on a...
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Mark Garvey
lazybee45@...
Feb 23, 2012 4:14 pm
Quite honesttly my whole premise was based on the idea that I really find the xtracycle concept a very practical and useful solution to the entire cargo...
My Xtracycle is my truck,I regularly max it's capacity by volume and enough times with weight that I'm looking into a stoked Big Dummy or Surly "Bill" trailer...
