Comments on: Stoke your bak?

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 17:33:53 +0000

Thanks for your reply, Todd. I hadn't considered that. My rack is 15 cm wide. The seat I had in mind is one like this. Since I don't read (or speak) Dutch, these specs were not very useful. :/

By: Todd (admin)

Todd (admin) — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:26:33 +0000

Vicki, Azor makes many bikes with different rack specs. And GMG makes many seats. I don’t know of a US source for GMG. But this particular seat did indeed just snap on to the rack of this particular Azor-manufactured bike.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:11:20 +0000

I’m looking into a GMG seat for my Azor. Will it really just snap onto to the rack? :)

By: DrMekon

DrMekon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 19:17:27 +0000

Henry Workcycles reckons that the Schlump isn’t a good idea. See his answer to “Can I fit a Schlumpf Mountain Drive 2-speed crankset to a Bakfiets Cargobike?”

http://www.bakfiets-en-meer.nl/bakfiets-cargobike-tips-tricks-faq/

By: BAW

BAW — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:59:54 +0000

I understand that a bak won’t take a Rolhoff, but would it take a Schlumpf up front? (http://www.schlumpf.ch/antriebe_engl.htm) That might help Kathleen. It isn’t cheap, but if she’s willing to invest that much in a bak, she might as well ‘be hanged for the cow as for the calf.’

By: Todd (admin)

Todd (admin) — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:01:38 +0000

Kathleen, we made special mounting hardware just to try it. We won’t make more. It “works,” but we will not support this application as a product. We don’t think it is responsible to enable people to haul hundreds of pounds of precious cargo up extremely steep grades when they very well might not be able to descend said grades safely. Longtails have much better high-speed handling and braking characteristics than bakfietsen.

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:25:39 +0000

Looking at the pages on the stokemonkey, it specifies that it only works with an Xtracycle. So how did this bakfiets get stoked?

I test-drove a bakfiets this weekend and am now in love! Just thinkin’ about that hill between my house and the grocery store….

By: Bruce Alan Wilson

Bruce Alan Wilson — Wed, 30 May 2007 15:59:38 +0000

Thanks. I’ll send the article to my cousin; as his mother (my aunt) is a retired English teacher, he’s used to explaining things so that dumb humanities majors can understand them.

By: Erik Sandblom

Erik Sandblom — Wed, 30 May 2007 13:21:43 +0000

Bruce, Mathew’s bike has 27 gears and 413% range. So the eight-speed Shimano and nine-speed Sram hubs with 307% and 340% respectively will not be far behind your 24-speed.

To read Mathew’s link, you need to cut off the period at the end of the link. Like this:

http://www.uscoles.com/threespeedgearing.pdf

By: Bruce Alan Wilson

Bruce Alan Wilson — Tue, 29 May 2007 21:03:21 +0000

Matt, are you aware that there seems to be a problem with the link you posted? I wanted to print it out to give to my cousin who is a Mechanical Engineer.