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Having had an longtail and *then* a bakfiets aka "box bike" has been a slightly backwards journey from what's probably typical for bike parents, but I doubt we would have ridden the infants around in the suburbs and the longtail is way more agile, squeezing between stopped car traffic and bumping up a curb is maybe doable without putting a foot down (if it's 6in or less for me), vs being a matter of leverage and quite an ordeal with the box bike.

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A2 unless your bike has rack-mounting designed into the head tube, probably not. I think xtracycle and radpower say 50lb for their fixed front racks. I might put 50lb on this contraption on my zigo but it starts to pull on the handlebar. Davey Oil once built this head tube extension for an xtracycle with -- wish I could get one for a suspension fork.

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Davey Oil in front of G&O Family Cyclery with the xtracycle + rack/fork swap. ISTR featured in a familyride blog post somewhere.
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Riding the 2014 bbs02 more often lately, thinking maybe I should get a motor for the rear of it, possibly a new bigger battery and update some parts. It's just such a dependable old truck but the rear is a little flexible when youngest+spouse are both on it. 11yo prefers the / & 13yo is too heavy to not be pedaling so we end up on the tandem more. Crowded in the garage though

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Current state of the "" / setup, if the kids' bike tire wedges into the cargo rails, you don't need to strap it at the bottom. It's best with 3 good points of contact on the wheel and the fork to be able to pivot. Experimenting on this strut/compression bit: the white PVC won't survive outside, going to be grey, but needs a different arrangement of the strap to draw tight, (and some rubber on the ends?)

Rear of xtracycle Edgerunner cargo bike, two parallel horizontal aluminum rails have a rubber strap attached, which can slide forward and back to fit different sized wheels. A red bungee cord keeps the bags snug but can be attached to the kids' handlebar to keep the steerer from flopping back if the towed bike goes sideways, so it will right itself. A black strap to the top rail of the cargo platform has a segment of plastic pipe around it, but is currently tied in a way that doesn't allow all of the play to be cinched out of it when lashed to the top of the towed bike's front wheel. It also will rub on the tire and cargo frame, so probably needs rubber caps, and the straps to be done in a way that can take up the play but without letting the "strut" slide off. There is also a flappy/strappy cargo bag with rain flap (before getting the cargo rails, I've never been able to do actual "bag and drag" well with just putting the wheel in the bag, the bottom would flop away from the frame too easily, and the fork + axle would rub on stuff. Plus you need a strap extender that matches their buckles to go around the top of the tire.), another buckle on a strap over the top of the deck, with gray air pad and green foam kneeling pad strap/clipped onto the whole mess, and the corner of the raised + rear offset handmade bit of HDPE deck with yepp seat window (mounted to the deck with 1/4in SS bolts through two 1x2 wood spacers.)
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