String fullTitle = 'Your DIY Bike Inventions';
int postNumber = 1982831;
String image = '1709239904815745.png';
String date = '02/29/24(Thu)15:51:44';
String comment = 'Show me the jury rigged shit you've cobbled together yourself instead of buying from a store.
5gal bucket panniers, homemade bags, diy anti-theft solutions, etc.
p.s., picrel was absolute useless 3d printing and raspberry pi bullshit';
'xyz cargo bikes makes all their bikes out of square aluminium sections and fasteners
even has one free plan for recumbent trike you can even add a roof to it';
'>>1983022
ive always wanted a roof on my bike';
'>>1982831
>Convert the seat stem of your bike to a 12 gauge barrel, pointing up
>Set up simple slamfire mechanism and trigger
>Bike thieves either get their hand blown off (sic semper furibus), or blows their testicles off so bike thieves are bred out of the gene pool.';
'I made some shitty brackets for a rear rack once just by bending some galvanized sheet metal and drilling a hole for a bolt.
The bike didn't have a suitable braze on on the frame, and the brackets for sale were more than I could justify, so fifteen minutes and some sheet metal it was.';
'I don't have a metal shop unfortunately but I made a ton of 3D printed things for bikes.
My best design so far is a flexible bar mount smartphone holder, pic rel.
Also made
Bracket for bell
Decorative bash guard
Valve caps
Bottle holder brackets
Excentric spacer to correct FD offset
Mount for head light, which I ripped off a trashed bike in the street
Currently working on a smiley faced rear light';
'>>1983022
Gonna make one of these. Disappointed that they don't have all the plans online or even for sale. They say they have some secret sauce they can only tell you about at their workshops in Berlin. Bro I'm an American.';
'are there any resources for making your own cargo bike?';
'>>1986773
See >>1983022
I'm planning to make a recumbent trike based on the XYZ system, with a wide platform similar to their Parkcycle. I'm still kicking around ideas for the fairing, as I want it to pop up into a fairly large camper.';
'the only way to properly unstuck a stuck cassette';
'>>1987279
I used a post from a downed chain link fence and stuck the little nub of the cassette cracker in there once';
'>>1987279
beautiful';
'>>1986773';
'>>1985328
if i had a 3d printer id be doing the same thing
i always need more brackets and little plasti doodads';
'>>1986773
just buy / build a trailer lol';
'>>1987279
how the fuck does that even happen???????
ive resorted to shit like this for freewheels but ive never had that much trouble with a cassette in my life';
'>>1987494
engineering genius tbqh';
'>buy $16 spesh toque clone on ali
>uncomfortable
>buy $20 toque clone with layer of foam on it
>meh
>find some nice foam inside a package I open
>cut it and glue it down with contact cement
>good, but on a long ride it doesn't hold up
>go to the place in the store where they sell shoe insoles
>get the gel heel cups
>put them on and temporarily wrap the saddle with saran wrap to try them out
>move them around until they feel right
>glue them down
>glue doesn't stick to the gel
>have some silicone "tape" for repairing holes in garden hose
>sticks to nothing but itself
>wrap it around the cutout
>test ride
>perfect.
just got home. finally have a usable toque clone.
and, oh yeah, I painted all the carbon blue because all my componentry is silver not black';
'>>1991372
surfacing the carbon for paint';
'>>1987279
I have seen this exact picture on reddit.';
'>>1991411
probably in a thread where the solution to a seized cassette was to wedge the wheel against a wall.';
'>>1983022
if I ever go there I am 100% gonna get their plans and then just open source them. knowledge should be free';
'>>1991690
You can already download the plans from their website here:
https://www.xyzcargo.com/about/';
}