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Internet fame via the legendary YMS review https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C67thOEtVNQ

the arc of US history is long and confusing but it apparently the inevitable end result is pardoning aremoved and honestly, yeah, probably

Pictured here is a Musketier Radkutsche because it's one you could buy as a consumer, everything else with this config or similar - i.e. space in the back - is mostly those last mile logistic cycles and you can only really get them on a B2B contract.

This here fits an euro pallette in the back and has about ~200kg give or take maximum cargo load given a rider on the heavier side. pricepoint is ~6000€ upwards on account of they hand make this in the south of germany because seemingly nobody wants to do a factory for cargo bikes.

Over the similar in idea longtail cargo bikes that are loads more common this has the upside of giving you a flat, stable base to work from so you can throw on a big box or a café or whatever, like this:

did you know your run of the mill internal gear hub is only spec'd to 50nm? Gotta buy like a fucking Rohloff to get that up to 130nm. ride derailleurs if you want that fat ass

If the reddit comments are to be believed: straight from the parking lot into the drink

I was sober except for the part where I maybe wasn't except in a legal sense and then on top of that suffered a bunch of other ailments that made me drive into a pond, over a curb and some other shit

On good will I hand it to this person that this sounds american-with-no-alternatives as fuck and they didn't frame it as a sort of passive "I got into an accident" but like still

Every 1 in 1,000 libertarians seems to realize bicycles are good even according to their principles and then you get a post like this.

If you don't know Hickman, I think he'd best be described as a sort of primitivist-nostalgic liberterian for settler times in the USA. To fulfill his dreams he moved out into the boonies of upstate new york and ever so often hates how it's full of uncultured swine, by his definition.

I freely admit from an manufacturing perspective it is somewhat impressive

Picture from the german wiki article

Being fast on a bicycle has a lot to do with aerodynamics so you go build an aero chassis around a recumbent and bam, fast as fuck boy.

If you do 200 Watts on a regular bicycle on a windless flat and a regular road, you're looking at going about 30kph. With this? 50kph. Obviously generalizing a lot here but you get the point.

They suck ass on hills though, because they weigh ~30kg with the chassis. not so much a problem in motion on the flat, kind of sucks uphill where aero doesn't matter. From my experience you don't see a lot of e-bike variants so far because with EU regulations the motor'd cut out at the speed you'd go for a leisurely ride on a normal bicycle, but maybe it'd be interesting to make them more hillclimbing capable.

Fun fact: in 1968 some dude did 100kph in this with by himself with no outside help.

Chassis are usually some sort carbon fibre or fiberglass and built monocoque, which means you better not ding them babies because repairs are gonna be expensive as fuck.

Prices run around 10k€ and then up to whatever you feel like paying for a new one. But they do look like old timey racecars which is fun. From personal experience of having chatted up a few of the local velomobile riders I feel like there's about a 50:50 split between buying one and somebody going fully "dad in the shed" and just building the entire thing from scratch

carbrain is "this is the fault of 3 million parallel, separated, individual actors" a lot

Now I was willing to accept this if you wanted something special. Mud tyres or spikes or combination road / gravel tyres or even doing 45° angle corner leans at 80kph down Alpe d'Huez or whatever but surely, SURELY, for just going A to B in an paved enviroment it wouldn't matter?

Yeah no turns out the premium shit does feel great and rolls better. I can never return.