Incredible performance of a tiny wheeled bike!

[Amuro Lee]

Last month, I rode my 26" wheeled Mountain Bike together with my neighbor who rode his CarryMe DS and other friends from our home town, Tuen Mun to another town, Tsuen Wan and back.



The journey was about 50km long and we had to go up and down many long and steep inclines.
He logged our route by his cell phone with GPS device during the journey.



He got the maximum speed of 42.5km/h when he was going down an incline. It was so incredible!


Two weeks later, he broke his own record.

[Weakling logged in as]

Thanks indeed! Love such stories. 50Kilometers. I felt lucky last summer when I rode just 12 KMtrs on a 28" regular bike when the weather was very good and traffic low. To ride that far on such a small bike is an adventure accomplishment like climbing a big mountain or similar. Congratulations!

[Amuro Lee]

There will be a tricycle version of CarryMe called CarryAll next year.

[Weakling logged in as]

Thanks indeed. That was clever of him to do it that way. I am a poor constructor. Had I been as smart as he is I would have done that thing years ago cause I have thought about that for a long time.

The advantage is that it behaves as a "trolley" or "Shopping Cart" while folded. Those two rather big wheels compared with the very very small one of the two wheeled Carryme is difficult to roll over uneven rough surfaces.

while now with three wheel two big ones are always on the ground for stability.

Hope he makes it so one could have a bag or rug sack down there on the rack while folded so it will get practical to take lots of foods and stuff through the department store and then later when one are on the road one could have it in its proper place as a bike too.

Will add the cost of it though.

Wonder if it will be more stable on Ice in winter for us living up north Europe.

Happy you told us about this.

[Amuro Lee]

There's no further information provided by Pacific Cycles about this.

[Weakling logged in as]

The forum for Strida? also seems to have a subforum for the Carryme so maybe they will take up Carryall too. Amuro thanks that you are active there too but the contributions from others seems to have slowed down after the first enthusiasm

http://stridasingapore.com/forum/index.php#8

I have to look for a distributor in Germany, England or similar Europe country to hear with them what it would cost to get a Carryme sent over to Sweden.

EDIT to fix the link. Thanks Amuro[/url]

[Amuro Lee]

Yes, there're CarryMe subforums on stridasingapore.com
http://stridasingapore.com/forum/index.php#8

There's a thread talking about CarryMe on bikeforums.net too.
http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=277444

There's also a forum in Chinese on the Taiwan distributor's website.
http://forum.hometec.com.tw

World-wide distributors of CarryMe
http://www.pacific-cycles.com/bike.asp? ... 3&model=39

[Weakling]

Hi Amuro, I have finally joined the forum I felt bad about joining cause the chance me would buy an Abike is very slim. I'm very tall, 194 and very heavy, Just now 95 Kg. And the Abike would not stand the strain on material and me hate to change inner tube on such a small wheel.

I really like the Carryall. With your generous help I found out that Velorution in London will sell Carryme hopefully this spring or summer. From Stockholm to London is ok to travel to test it out. Would be a nice vacation.

But I doubt they take in the Carryall. But I will try to persuade them to have at least one on display and for testing so potential customers could make up their mind to ask for to get one.

I joined the bikeforum too cause I saw your active there. Great that you found that good picture. Looking forward to more info on them.

http://www.bikeforums.net/showthread.php?t=367405



If you have time could you write to Pacific and ask them to give more info on Carryall on their homepage. That would be super cool.

Best regards
Vekling

[Amuro Lee]

Hi Vekling,

I have to say that I weight 115kg and I haven't needed to change the inner tubes of my A-bike's wheels yet after I have been using the bike for a whole year.

By the way, there's another bike called "Carry Bike" in Japan which can be transformed into a luggage carrier.
http://www.abikecentral.com/forum/viewt ... c&start=17
http://www.abikecentral.com/forum/viewt ... c&start=28

Regards,

Amuro

[kenwshmt2]

I like this one better than the luggage carrier bike, though it still looks like a big tricycle.

Anyone have any thought to a swing down sidecar wheel? .. something that could be put up for 'performance', but down with a luggage / bbq grill for hauling.

[Weakling]

By "this one " you mean Carryall by Pacific in Taiwan?

The Carrybike have three gears built in to the rear Hub.

While the Carryall is zero gears? Maybe it is more difficult to have gears if the rear wheel is two wheels. How do big Delta? trikes do gearing?

Anyone have any thought to a swing down sidecar wheel? .. something that could be put up for 'performance', but down with a luggage / bbq grill for hauling.

I like your suggestion. It could even be attached to those bikes that customers already bought.

the hard part is to make it practical while un-folding it.

[kenwshmt2]

http://www.steves-workshop.co.uk/other/sidecar/sidecardesign/sidecardesign.htm


that guy has the right idea.

Someone needs to fiddle with a sidecar.

[Weakling]

Do it foldable and that could make Carryme more versatile.

thanks for providing these suggestions. How does such one behave in snow? or on slippery icy streets?

Would one still fall over or is it so heavy it keep me on track?

Look at how the Carryme have a super low rack. Not much to triangle on there. Would be weak if one doesn't weld it in place?

But I love the idea. That would allow the rear wheel to not only have two gears as DS have but as many gears as competing small bikes have.

the Carryall maybe is difficult to give many gear in hub?

[Amuro Lee]

The CarryAll has just been announced on the Pacific Cycles website
http://www.pacific-cycles.com/news_deta ... 0=2&cat=22

[Weakling]

Did we link to this video of Carryme here in our forum?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDaJfOdWzqY&feature=related

Those of you who have tested carryme or A-bike or Strida.
Who are easiest to keep a straight course on?

Could you see if it is the straight one with 0-gears of the DS who have 2gears?

She wiggle a lot. She don't go straight path. Is that due to her careless and who love to fool around cause she use the sidwalk while that is strictly forbidden where I live. Fined maybe between 100 USD to 250 USD?

Very expensive. You could buy an ordinary cheap bike for that ride.

Is it that difficult to keep Carryme at a straight path? Would make it dangerous to be in traffic where big lorry and buses are close to your body in narrow streets.