One Less Truck: The Homemade Cargo Bikes of Tom LaBonty

[@randaldavis8976]

it's hard to make a bike that's unrideable... but I love this video, recycling bikes into cargo bikes is awsome. I have wanted one since I saw one.

[@alistersibley2155]

Tom, your philosophy is brilliant! Build it, ride it, enjoy it!

[@florianbartschiger1616]

"there must be a mathematical formula for this, but..." is my life motto from now on

[@cptbrncls7050]

Great stuff - keep up the good work Tom

[@um_gaucho_no_mundo]

Nice bike, congratulations from South brazil!

[@metaspencer]

excellent build! love the philosophy

[@dalewildey4102]

I've been wanting to build one for awhile. It's nice to have the cargo in the front down low. Can keep an eye on it. I'll haul grandkids, dogs and groceries ect. I know the kids will love going for a ride. Electric assist would be nice to help with the weight and hills

[@marcijunebug]

Thanks so much for sharing this! Love it!

[@drew031127]

Love it, feeling inspired. Working on a cargo ebike with solar canopy at the moment...might need one of them angle gauges...haha.

[@damonthomas8955]

That's the major problem with this country; not enough people like this dude.

[@reinplat]

He's like the Great Lebowski of bike building.

[@microcosmpub]

I think you mean "Great LeBontski"

[@ahmedalbakry1943]

Nice work

[@JonVanOast]

so awesome!

[@AB-jc3gd]

very cool ...

[@joseccteixeira1971]

Very cool, your video friend! This pipe bend wrench, I love it, can you holm oak?

[@tariq111971]

great job

[@paddlepower888]

In everyone lurks a builder. When we get the builder out, great things happen.

[@woodywiest]

Bravo.

[@eugeniodiazorellana1205]

Nice bikes cargo' good jobs.

[@SlowLifeProject]

👍 💪

[@futurama3585]

The steerer tube doesn't need to be 90° angle right? Lots of videos on youtube about building cargo bikes stated that it has to be 90° in angle.

[@MicrocosmPublishing]

No, this bike is about 75 degrees. I think at 90 degrees, the measurements are just simpler to make elsewhere. The real magic of this bike is the double support pieces of conduit (two side-by-side) along the bottom. I swear that's what makes it perform as well as a $4,000 cargo bike.

[@Pocketfarmer1]

Having the steering tube 90* would make the wheel base shorter.

[@plintdillion286]

How are we going to insure, tax, validate, standardize, legalize this contraption? Said the grumpy old control freak. Joking everybody. Welldone! Great to see ingenuity.

[@JustClaude13]

I'd like a semi-recumbent Long John. The problem with my sketches so far is that even with dual 20" wheels and an 18" cargo box the wheelbase is 7-1/2 feet!

[@AB-jc3gd]

maybe you could make a three wheeler

[@JustClaude13]

@@AB-jc3gd I came up with a box tail design with the cranks over the head tube and the rear wheel well splitting the back of the box. 48" wheel base. I need a welder.

[@CasperRc81]

Your a cool dude

[@boathemian7694]

How much does he sell these for?

[@mememem32e]

Just signed up for welding class at my local community college, after being inspired by this video. Looks like you stopped building bikes, curious why that is.

[@REYKING-Muzic]

Did you try looking him up , cuz I was really interested in a bike ?

[@TheTsjippie]

caveman engeneering best ever

[@clayguinard3651]

Where does this guy live and how do you get in touch with them I'm out here in Maine

[@darrannewman7113]

I like it , it don't have to be pretty to work

[@MicrocosmPublishing]

But it's pretty too!

[@fmc6338]

so cool

[@timvenutolo8228]

. How much do you charge for theses cargo bikes. I’d love to build two for my street scrapper friends

[@Arkferret]

looks like a hoot to ride.

[@microcosmpub]

It seems like it shouldn't work but ten years later it's my favorite bike, even with 600 pounds on it.

[@felicetanka]

Welder wears visión protection but viewers of this video here can't.

[@palmeraz73]

ok i want one to haul my dog on rides. how much do you charge?

[@konnandaojang]

super

[@andrewwilson8317]

Need to try tig welding of gas welding/ brazing mate and drop the ugly mig welds. Mig welding ok but not the best process for what you are doing.

[@maikelsilva4077]

muito bom

[@databanks]

I would seriously love to do this sort of work in my own back yard, but my landlord is a complete dick. He even objected to a work bench until I thinly disguised it as a BBQ table. He even moaned about the bike I use as primary transport (yet has no problem with a guy in another apartment taking up 3 damn parking spaces with 2 cars and a boat for one person)

[@jonandjeansaul2695]

A little extra lighting would go along way in helping your videos. Great work though.

[@Seregium]

My eyes bleed! It is good job but it was old chrome-molibden steel racing bike. You must use carbon fork and made this cargo bike not harder than eleven kilo net weight :D

[@microcosmpub]

I dunno! Ten years later and this is my favorite bike. As easy to ride as $4,000 model which also weighs 70 pounds.

[@demonlover6966]

godzilla

[@leemacho7067]

I was the one who disliked your video. I believe Mexican power can build a better bike

[@MicrocosmPublishing]

Great! Make a video about it! Tom's vision is that it's collaborative, not competitive!

[@johndoes2434]

There's a World War II bicycle ambulance where the ambulances in front of the the writer on a tricycle type Carriage with a front wheel steering take a 10 inch wheel I ask what I want to make a lot of those being made would help the homeless problem could you see a lot of these Homeless Shelter trailer bite things going in those are Grove difficult to ride but if you get a three wheeler High thing like I need to take a look at it on Google Images it's really cool in the homeless would have a place to live and nobody steal her bike because they're sleeping in it and all her stuff would be right there with him and the cops wouldn't have so much junk and have to worry about do a lot of bikes got a funny China House mountains bike sitting around a little mountains if you look on China's bicycle waste cuz they all went from bicycles to cars and all those bicycles just got piled up in huge mountains and you can imagine three million people riding bikes suddenly stopping where they all go you make 10 of those bikes for pennies on the dollar

[@johnlindsay3647]

Now ce if have tool time money to do this I don't 7 paper out don't leave you a lot and being homeless oh no homeless man working my God

[@jadirkersting]

Não gostei. Estragou uma bicicleta antiga.