Cargo Bike Live: Talking Winter Essential Accessories

[@Carsten_Diekmann]

A slightly different live stream than usual, but no less entertaining. Lots of input on cycling in winter, from someone who knows what winter really means. I'm looking forward to the next stream.👍

[@chow-chihuang4903]

It’s a different setup as the bike I have a winter cover for uses a frame-integrated battery, but it loses roughly 25% range when it’s around or slightly below freezing. With the foamed neoprene sleeve wrapped around the frame and battery, it loses about 10%. I stop riding when it’s -15C so I don’t know how it works then.

[@stevegerber169]

I missed the last two live streams because I didn't know they were happening. How can I get advanced notification 2 or 3 days ahead of time?

[@AmericanFietser]

Well, I tend to plan these streams no more than a day in advance and sometimes, such as yesterday, just a few hours in advance. If you want to attempt to catch a live stream, you can hit the notification bell on the channel to get notified when I go live. Unfortunately, that's the best I can do. Trying to do these streams amongst regular day to day life, weather, etc is a bit hard to plan...for me anyway. 🙃

[@SarahFrumento]

I have a keychain that looks just like that with all the Abus tags hanging off 😂

[@AmericanFietser]

There's dozens of us! 😂

[@SarahFrumento]

@ 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SarahFrumento]

@ an elite group 😆

[@nmosely]

One of these days you have to do a toolbox tour. Is that general purpose or just for your bike?

[@AmericanFietser]

Lol, that's just general tools. I'm not a bike mechanic by any means.

[@DizzyDiddy]

22:10 Why aren't you running studded tires on the Urban Arrow this year?

[@AmericanFietser]

The simple answer is that I don't have easy access to a shop that can swap them for me. I'd have to rent a U-Haul, haul it to a bike shop, and bring it home again. That's pretty much the whole of it.

[@DizzyDiddy]

@AmericanFietser that makes sense. I thought you did the swaps on your own. I'm in the same boat needing to rent a U-Haul whenever we need to service our Urban Arrow, with our dealer being about an hour away by car. You're absolutely right about the difficulties with riding in winter weather being an infrastructure or maintenance problem. They do okay here, but there is still way too much lag between when the plows have cleared the roadways before they get to clearing the pathways.

[@AmericanFietser]

@DizzyDiddy an hour away?! Man, that's bad. Mine is about 10 minutes away, but their location is just such that riding there could easily turn deadly. The stroad their shop is on claimed the life of one of their mechanics a few years ago from a motorist.

[@JaydenLitolff]

​@@AmericanFietser are tire swaps significantly harder on a cargo bike? I've done my own tires on my commuter and I didn't find it very mechanically complex

[@AmericanFietser]

Messing with a rear tire is a pain and like many people, I'm not mechanically inclined on a bike.