Cargo bike build

[@brett8382]

Great work Old Mate. You shown excellent aptitude to make the frame. I did have a chuckle at the 100 mile/hr tape on the flip flop. Thanks for your efforts.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate

[@xDrDeath78x]

You ever watch Alec Steele? He made a push bike a while back. Took him a month of Sunday’s, half a million quids worth of equipment and still had to get sent a pro gig. Looked like knackers at the end. You’ve got some scrap wood and some tent poles and have produced a bike that wiggins would have a little go on. Nice one brother

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

That enthusiasm of his though, wow.

[@xDrDeath78x]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle enthused by that cheddar

[@BensWorkshop]

Nice build. I especially liked the way you ribbed those flat panels. Impressive! When you had the gas bottles and kegs on there I immediately thought of Colin Furze and wondered if you were going to fit two rockets on the side with the kegs as tanks.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thank you mate, I'm having lots of fun with the bead rolling at the moment, should have made some plastic dies for that allu though.

[@BensWorkshop]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 It does look good.

[@Know-Expert]

'It’s top heavy' .... you’d know all about that wouldn’t you..... ha ha ha . Stoppy on a cargo bike whilst wearing safety flip flops..... you’ve gotta love this guy. Another great video keep em coming..... know Expert.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate, you know with your boat towing antics you are partly responsible for me wanting to drag a canoe with this thing. I'll make sure I give you a shout if I do, it'd be nice to use a 10 sec clip of your vid if that is ok?

[@Know-Expert]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle Wow, ABSOLUTELY would you like a clip of me towing a Batmobile as well? Thank you.......

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@Know-Expert if you don't mind me grabbing 10 seconds from where you run out of batmobile fuel to pedaling off on your bike I can just do a screen grab video, that bit was especially amusing.

[@Know-Expert]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle you choose what you like from any of my videos I’m happy you even want to use them.... I’m thanking you! Appreciated.... know Expert

[@reculvertowers]

That looks like a KONA UTE CARGO BIKE,you gotta love a good bike Turbo.Ive got a Sigma sports Nemesis, a 80's Pinarello, a 78 Chas Roberts bespoke, a 80's ALAN, a 80's Francesco Moser, a Ribble Nero Corsa, a Cannodale and a Pashley unicycle

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

The Ute is in my humble opinion the most organic looking long tail, dam fine lines. So thanks for the drawing the similarity but I don't see it. I very much like bikes too, especially the old clankers, one day I'll buy some nice lugs and build a frame.

[@reculvertowers]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Would be great to see you build up a frame with ornate lugs and Reynolds 531

[@keithfulkerson]

That dropout was a work of art.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate

[@nogocux]

Great dropouts! It's a nice bike. I have made a wooden frame holding the brack pins in place, it worked out great on two bikes.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate. Wood is great for stuff like this, my dad rode around the black sea with a wooden panier he's made hanging off the brake pins.

[@vitthalkadam266]

You are more than R&D 👌👌👌👌👌👌 Touring 🚴🚲bike manufacturer... Working great

[@blueeyeswhitedragon9839]

One of my biggest mistakes in loading a mountain bike for 4-5 day camping trips was in not distributing the weight properly between front and rear tires. Did the same with my pick-up truck once...too many stones in the back and the front end was bouncing all the way home...with almost no steering. Very scary! My brother & I ended up re-packing the bikes to prevent the front ends from lifting completely off the ground. Lesson learned.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

You've got to do it once to know you don't want to do it again! Trailers is where I've gotten really sketchy, not paying attention to the ball weight and the tail starts wagging the dog.

[@abale1729]

Great first attempt. I see hours of hard work and fun ahead.

[@JustClaude13]

10:46 What are you doing here? It looks like pop rivets or some screw inserts for attaching accessories. I don't recognize the tool. The finished frame is gorgeous. You're a bit of an artist to do that level of work on an improvised bike.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Thank you mate. Those thread inserts are called rivnuts, not the strongest fix but easy, quick and tidy.

[@markifi]

your work is really top-notch

[@maryandsam2]

Loved that build! Right up my street. My Yuba Mundo cargo bike is essentially the same design but with extra stiffness and low side loaders...it's massively over engineered but i love it! 13000 miles and counting. I reckon a large part of the poor handling is due to weight behind the rear axle, the Yuba is rated to carry 200 kilos of cargo plus the rider (which is bonkers! I've had over 100 kilos on which was fine) BUT only a maximum of 50 kg behind the rear axle. Also the rear axle is a solid 14mm bolt on and the rear wheel has 48 spokes...like I said really solid!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

That's some pretty impressive numbers, id need better steel, precision and an even longer wheelbase to get anywhere near that, can't imagine what it's like trying to get going with 200kg strapped to the back, that's the weight of a motorbike. It's the 2 up front trike that I'm really interested in spending a bit of time on and doing a nice job, classic Dutch tradesman's cargo trike, then I can stick the whole family in it for picnics.

[@maryandsam2]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 re wheelbase the Yuba is 7 ft long nose to tail. So I think you are right. As regards the trike, if you can make it able to lean through corners (an engineering challenge I know) it'll make a huge difference to the ride comfort, rode cambers make trikes really horrible to ride. Just always feels a bit shit. I think the best cargo loaders are the front loader 'long john' type the are lovely to ride and loads of fun ..plus you can get the kids in them!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I managed to get my first ice cream bike to lean into corners by putting the pivot at an angle, unfortunately something wasn't right, I don't know if it was geometry or purely frame flex and it spat me off and summersaulted on a French A road at 30mph after a bit of a tank slapper. The nearest hill to me is 12 miles away so sometimes things don't get tested as much as they should before entering service. Maybe you are right about the long nose bikes, obviously I'd have to find HD 48 spoke wheels somewhere.

[@maryandsam2]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 BMX or tandem wheels, often 48 spoke.

[@louwelly5036]

Done a lovely job on the back end 🙂

[@fraaggl]

very good !! Maybe with 20" tires to lower the center of gravity and the access to the load ?

[@Traderjoe]

That’s brilliant James! Your son is so lucky to be able to watch his dad create things from nothing and still be a funny father. If they learn these skills, it’ll give them a huge leg up over their friends who probably only play video games. Could it ever be practical to add two smaller wheels way in back to support the cargo? Would that mess up handling?

[@brenwyattm0rij909]

Another great vid, although it did look like a WMD with gas bottles strapped to the back! Nice job Mate!

[@ianschannel6947]

nice, its good to see you building bikes again

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Forgot how fun it was

[@ianschannel6947]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 i found a old bike you put together for me and it has your red dmr v8 pedals on it.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

@@ianschannel6947 was that for the adventure you me and Dave took around to Alex's gaff?

[@ianschannel6947]

​@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 not sure really, i dont remember much of any of that. i do remember falling in a river lol

[@samrowland2816]

Nice big space in that frame for one of them Chinese 4 stroke kits

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I built a kids motorbike around one of those kits, lovely little engines but I need the exercise!

[@vitthalkadam266]

Very nice work...good fabrication

[@motorcyclewild5873]

Looks ace matey. I wish i had your skills

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate

[@PetesCreativeRecycling]

I think this looks pretty damn good! Time to put a TCME logo on the side, ya think?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Yes mate! I need to get more stickers done

[@PetesCreativeRecycling]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I still have the original sticker you made about having a big tool. I got 2 of them and only stuck 1 for the contest.

[@garrybeard7718]

Looks awesome.it done the job you built it for great video well done mate.👍🍺🇬🇧🤘

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Garry! Cheers mate

[@alexonder1545]

i like the Clint shirt turbo man.....nice video as always.Maybe 3 wheels for a cargo bike would have been more stable.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I built a reverse trike for a camping trip I did in France some years ago, also crashed that. It's not the bike, it's me.

[@marco.6224]

what wielding system did you use?

[@TopCat2021]

@13:47 I knew it "Cargo" bike er......BEER bike, for the beer runs....LOL nice bike great job on the build.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

The most precious cargo... Cheers mate

[@papajapluk3471]

Nice work Thanks for sharing

[@MeleeTiger]

When I saw "cargo bike" I figured you'd make one of those 3 wheelers.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I made an ice cream bike many years ago, always wanted to have another go so some day.

[@MeleeTiger]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I remember that video, the kind of cargo 3 wheel bikes we have here that you could buy in a store have the single wheel up front and two wheels in the back, we do have the two wheels up front type for ice cream vendors though.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Ok, nice one for paying attention and I'm impressed you remember that far back. I've messed around on a few of the conversational trikes and was very unimpressed with their lack of stability at speed so for me it'll always be 2 up front..... Or 4?

[@MeleeTiger]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Peddle Powered 4-wheeler sounds interesting!

[@rollandelliott]

wow came out great considering you used a basic wood jig to weld it up! a small electric hub motor and battery would make the extra weight irrelevant. what is the total weight?

[@Carletdesiles]

Didn't see the parameters of the welding process. Thin wall tubes are not easy to weld how did you manage it so easily?

[@benspeedschannel888]

Excellent job butty! Any joy with the pallet wrap canoe yet?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

The new covering just arrived, hopefully I'll get onto it next week my man

[@benspeedschannel888]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle awesome! Can’t wait!!

[@Japs_Eye_Of_The_Tiger]

Next Week: Fitting gas-jet propulsion to the cargo bike.

[@BrownianMotionPicture]

Great job! Is there anything you can't do?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Calligraphy

[@BrownianMotionPicture]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I bet you could do a cracking video on Calligraphy.

[@richbuilds_com]

I've been looking into bike camping. I have zero experience with it other than knowing cycling and camping but I do like the look of frame bags. (Alpkit have some good examples - expensive but when you buy kit that wont let you down, you buy alpkit :) ). You can drastically reduce the weight of your camping gear for cheap. There's loads of videos on youtube about going ultralight. I did the coast to coast with a carry weight of around 10kgs (inc food & water for a few days). There's no dicking about with it though. If you want a sub 10kg pack weight you have to spend £££. (Only on a few key items, the rest can be sourced cheaply), You could start with a lighter bag - sure it's rugged, but when are you dragging it through gauze bushes while bike camping? ;-)

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I like my bivvy, the bag inside is pants though, just an old fishing thing for maggot drowners. I hear you on the weight but until I loose my excess I'd not spend money on lightweight stuff, it's like seeing a fat man on a carbon fiber bike.

[@richbuilds_com]

​ @Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle I have the Alpkit Hunka bivi for Scotland / Wales. And an aliexpress UL one for cheap for everywhere else. You gotta pack for the weather/terrain :)

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

What sort of mat do you use?

[@richbuilds_com]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 I have a Thermarest Neoair (expensive, but it a massive weight/comfort/warmth boost over cheaper mats). I've been through tens of mats trying them out as I switched to ultralite and that's the one I've stuck with :)

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

So the reason I like my particular ex Dutch army bivvy is I can roll it up with a mat and a big 3 season bag inside it, packing up or making camp takes 30sec, Its got wings near the head that fold over and tie and as long as you keep it the right way up in the rain It'll keep everything dry. It looks to me like other bags are designed to be packed up separately both military and commercial stuff. Is it normal to carry everything separately?

[@Farm_fab]

Maybe you need a caravan to pull behind your bike to haul your cylinders.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I'll get on it straight away!

[@Farm_fab]

That would be an interesting build.

[@xDrDeath78x]

Ever tried the “long john” cargo bikes? Might be better suited to your needs

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I'm working my way through all the designs, done a reverse trike, remote steer long nose full sus, now this. I'm only going to try the long John after I get hold of a scrap shaft drive bike because 10 foot of chain flapping around looks like wank and is a terrible solution.

[@xDrDeath78x]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle maybe just use the back half of the bike for the drive train and build a platform for your goods and then a linkage for the steering

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I thought long John was lengthened at the back? I already built a long nose, made a little video compilation of it and the trike last year when I scrapped them

[@xDrDeath78x]

Turbo Conquering Mega Eagle I thought it was lengthened in the front but what the fuck do I know about push bikes. I remember the postie bike and the trike... maybe do a recumbent with a trailer next. You normally see those eco bellends riding them about. What ever mate, keep em coming

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Nah mate, what the fuck do I know, you are right, the long tails are just called long tails.... And fuck recumbents, I'm too nosey not to be sat as high up as possible, maybe I should try a cargo penny farthing.

[@garvielloken3929]

Love theTURBO intro

[@doOf3r]

When I saw those two cylinders I thought 'He's not going to...' and sadly you didn't. I love it except the colour, reminds me of an egg.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I got that paint for painting my power hacksaw but didn't like it either so it's going on stuff I won't see everyday.

[@Know-Expert]

doofer I thought exactly the same as you...... ha ha ha.

[@johanstrom3271]

How 'bout coupla pints mate! Grand!

[@BrownianMotionPicture]

In terms of clamping force, the hierarchy is said to go: External cam QR, Internal cam QR, then the simple nut! I see you are using the former which is the most likely to slip!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

That's a very handy nugget of fact my man, cheers.

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

Is there anything you can't do Jims?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Origami

[@vinniesdayoff3968]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 don't believe you 😊😊

[@oceanofsandwiches7784]

Hey boss did ya try the VPN thing I was talking about the other week? If so let me know if it helped at all

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Not yet my brother

[@oceanofsandwiches7784]

Chuur I dont know if it'll help but it's worth a shot

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Definitely, should I just try Nord? That certainly seems to be the most advertised VPN

[@oceanofsandwiches7784]

Yeah for sure from what I've heard nord is the most secure VPN

[@mealex303]

sweet job me old mucker shame about the chipmunks talking through out lol

[@markemarkpsv1]

Sooooo, when's the trailer being made for it? If you carry GAS ⛽ you should have an orange plate and an ADR license! 🤣 I guess we as humans should be fitted with orange plates, Humans packing code (7) .1 😉 👍🤣👍 MDS

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I don't know about the orange plate but I could definitely do with a blow off valve in this heat! Cheers Mark

[@mealex303]

still not managed to thumb up b4 the part of intro with a mouth full of paper 😆

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Keep trying mate, cheers

[@Carletdesiles]

Excellent !

[@morophineswordphich8229]

Thats a pretty swanky rig, gov!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers boss

[@CrownJewelzMusicGroup]

Thats sick

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Cheers mate

[@CrownJewelzMusicGroup]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 love a good bike camp im always out m8..that impressed me ive got a steel frame that needs some mods

[@normannormiemates4844]

Only two wheels?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I could strap 50 more on the back of you want?

[@normannormiemates4844]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 A three wheeler would be more stable with loads of gas bottles on and would distribute all that weight about more.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Definitely, I do like the reverse trike set up

[@normannormiemates4844]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 yeah two wheels at the front with an ackerman set up would take quite a lot of weight and would have weight over the front wheels for grip on the road when turning.

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

You are quite right, ackerman steering has big weight/complexity/load area penalties. I built an "ice cream bike" with simple cart steering many years ago. It was very unstable at speed, I think this was due to frame flex though so could be remedied with better design and the other big drawback was hitting a bump with a front tyre caused it to slew over in that direction however on smooth surfaces i think it's the least compromised pedal powered 3 wheel set up. If I had more time on my hands id build a mock up with adjustable geometry and find a big hill so I could experiment with pivot placement, castor ect. I put my pivot at a top leaning forward angle so the rear half of the frame leant into the corner and set the axle slightly behind the pivot but my dad pointed out (during our 200 mile trip through France on bikes) that if I had the load c of g over the axle (behind the pivot) any centrifugal forces I generated at speed would want to further increase the steering angle so I'd created a negative stability issue. I scoured the internet for decent info on cart steering geometry but alas it doesn't seem to be something people apart from me are interested in these days.

[@aaronshed]

We saw that can of wife beater

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Gotta stay hydrated mate

[@samc705]

Eeeeh...I were right about that saddle though!

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

What about the saddle Sam?

[@samc705]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 You don't remember that advert then Jimbo? It was a quote from an old Yellow Pages ad where a kid begged his dad for a new racer bike and the dad was telling him that the "saddle was like a razor blade, maybe next year son!"...He then looked up a bike shop in Yellow Pages and surprised the lad...

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Nice, don't remember that one. Internet pretty much fucked yellow pages, I can find a gynochologist in Mogadishu in 20sec now

[@samc705]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 Check messenger, I sent a link to it roflmao. Always a worthwhile thing to know where your nearest gynocologist is if you're ever in "The Mog".

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

Bruh, I'm not really using any of the socials at the moment, feel free to use the tcme email on the info page of my channel.

[@jmyd83]

👍

[@Everythings_Adjustable]

👍👍🌝

[@Everythings_Adjustable]

Some of your comment on the padlock came up in my notifications but I can't find it to reply, very strange

[@laciihasz4734]

Next step to place a v8 engine on that thing, u know, just for fun:)

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I think everyone else is asking for rockets after seeing the bottles tied up there

[@laciihasz4734]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 A big v8 would be much more fun😁 But being serious, did u think about battery power?

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

I really want to get rid of my tits and beer gut mate, my options are exercise or stop drinking beer so while I'd genuinely love to build an electric bike, I'd love to carry on drinking beer more.

[@anttitiilikainen8543]

eka

[@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006]

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[@anttitiilikainen8543]

@@turboconqueringmegaeagle9006 eka (finnish) = first (english)... so nothing important :D you have intresting videos, keep posting... when we see more about digging dirt?