Posts Tagged ‘ Bakfiets ’

For those of you who’ve been asking to see the Frankenbike in action, here’s a short clip: The paint arrived for it last Friday, so over the next few days I’ll be stripping it back to the frame and painting it scarlet!
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Last Friday the weather was fine, and the winds light, so I knocked off early to head up to Ashington to collect the Frankenbike. At around 3m long, it won’t fit into the car, so the only option was to ride it home. And that’s just what I did - I rode there on the...
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We’re getting closer to the official launch of the Frankenbike, and over the last week I’ve been building the cargo box. As this DIY bakfiets has been cobbled together from other bikes and the frame angles have been done by eye, I’ve not had any drawings. So the box had to be built in-situ, with...
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A while ago I stumbled upon Tom’s Cargo Bikes - a great little site about cargo bikes (does what it says on the tin!), which includes instructions on how to build your own. Seeing as I used to be an engineer, I decided to have a go. First up, I sourced a couple of suitable...
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