A Crust Clydesdale Cargo Fork <https://crustbikes.com/products/clydesdale-fork/> might be a good fit for the large basket/heavy load!
On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 8:50:28 AM UTC-7, Will wrote: > > Back in the days when I delivered newspapers, the bikes we used all had > long curved fork blades and wide tires. We didn't know about low trail. We > knew we needed to keep the load center >behind< the front axle. That > requirement, by definition, meant low trail (and usually, slack headtubes). > And we knew we needed fat tires to cushion the load. > > Check out the Worksman Cycles site. Those bikes are designed to carry > stuff. They are not promoted as low trail. > > On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 9:58:00 AM UTC-5, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> Isn't that what Wald used to sell as the "Newsboy"? I owned one, but >> despite the volume it could carry only a fraction of the weight that I >> could readily carry in rear panniers without making the handling go >> to hell, so I gave up on front loading as the primary carrying mode. >> >> I think you need a dedicated, *very* low trail (30 mm or so, or less) to >> carry 30 lb+ in front, all the more so with a basket in a rideable way. So >> I don't know how the newsboys carried a neighborhood's worth of fat Sunday >> papers on their Schwinns. >> >> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 3:22 PM J Imler <imle...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Get a load of this behemoth. >>> Pics here >>> <https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Adct4cWdTZP0ZX_H4MDSv6OICtGF0Z9m> >>> >>> Same width as the big Bosco bars. I think you could lug a Labrador in >>> there. I bought it to hold my kid's school papers, looks like we'll be good >>> for a couple years worth of hoarding. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> >> -- >> Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. >> By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >> Other professional writing services. >> http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, New Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique >> ************************************* >> *************************************************** >> *Auditis an me ludit amabilis insania?* >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
