this 1x8 cargo bike build is too fun 

Park Tool if you're watching this, please send Gary some tools.

true spirit of engineering and tool making here lol you have made a shop delivery bike

🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ NOIIICE! I can see how this would quickly become a favourite bike around town. I wonder how it would do on a small camping trip…

Gary, Shimano 8 and 9 speed have different cog spacing on the cassettes (Sunrace uses the same spacing.) 8 speed is 4.8mm between the centres of the cogs and 9 speed is 4.34mm. This is why your 9 speed shifter is not pulling enough cable to go though your larger cogs and you have to double click. From the smallest cog, your pull error increases until the point at the two largest cogs you need to shift twice. You may find that if you set the shifting pull from either the 4th or 5th cog that you get a smaller pull error eg only 3 or 4 changes up or down, rather than 7 up from cog 1 which might allow all 8 cogs to shift on one lever push.

Thanks Gary! Keepin' the builds simple, yet it brings joy that you are re-using most of the parts. Usually, when the channels grow, people tend to save time and just buy new stuff, props to You, man! @parktool, pls, help this man to make the content easier!

hey, you need to flip the brake pads around in the front since whole brake is backwards. These pads are directional and made form 2 parts, metal outer and brake shoe inner and it might just shoot out at some point since its how they are replaced. Stay safe and thank you for a video

These videos are so fun and rewarding to watch!! And... educational

Nice video, but I do have a couple of notes for you as a "frugal" bike mechanic. For the quick link removal you can just take those pliers and do it without the wire. I do this all the time. Open the jaws, and rest them on opposite sides of the link away from where the open part is and at an angle so that when you close the pliers they push on the opposite sides and open the quick link. If you have a pair of channel lock pliers that open wider this works better of course, but still can be done with regular ones. Thin needle nose pliers are also an option. As for getting grips on and off easier I use a little rubbing alcohol. This works very well for sliding on, and drying fast. To give a bit more "grip" use hair spray instead to install them. For the front brakes if you are considering carrying heavy stuff I'd really recommend going to disk. Especially if you ride in the rain as I sometimes have to do.

That's rad! And who would have thought that the oldest derailleur would have the most range! 😆

Milk crate for the win! Very practical build, and HNY to ya.

The fork looks gorgeous!

Always enjoy your lil cheeky blasts at the end of the build 😜 great job as per 🤙

Hey Gary I just wanna say thank you for making videos like this! its the best to watch and relax to fr fr! I just copped a 90s GT Timberline as my first project bike and I just wanna thank you for being so cool my man 🤘 Luv from NorCal

Love to see it! I put this fork on my Aluminum GT- Zaskar and use it as an urban hauler. I recommend getting a steering damper 🤙

Dude, an inspiration for what I want to learn to do! Keep making these videos, I love em!!

You make use of some great components to make for original looks, and one of a kind bicycles. I end up wanting them all.

I made headset tool on basically the same principle. Its lasted years, the way to increase strength is actually to make more and shorter slots and drill a hole at the end of them. Square corners are force multipliers and will start a crack on their own so drill, and wide tabs will crease more easily across the arc of the tube diameter, then you need shorter tabs to keep them proportional given the narrower width. You can also use a thicker walled tube if you chamfer the inside diameter before cutting the slots, this gives the tabs a definite outside corner thats necessary because of the thicker tube wall

put a mid drive in the xtracycle and put this fork on it. ultimate built cargo bike haha

clever trick for the chain link removal, wish I had thought of that last week

Happy New Year! Your videos are inspirational. In fact they're some sort of mind control experiment that makes me get off my ass and work on a bike.

i love this bike!! i’ve been obsessing for days! glad i found your youtube explanation

Great video, love the result. Happy New Year to you as well.

This looks sick! Didn't expect the 400LX to work with the wide range though. 🤯

Absolutly nailed this bike.

Very cool looking end result! and relatively cheap alternative to a cargo bike

Postie tub can be bolted to the tray ( just run a washer either side of the tub and a bolt it down

Hell yea this thing rules Happy New Year Gary Projects

This reminds me of the omnium bikes witch I like a lot they are great cargo bikes I've seen people carrying friends on the Omnium bikes, well done mate I think it's cool it's a fun bike the front pops up so easily the steering is so light it's more than a one trick pony ✌🏽

Nice vid Gary, welcome to the cycletruck gang! While cable pull ratio for 6-9s Shimano RD's is the same, you'll want to run your 8s cassette with a 8s shifter I reckon. It will work alright overall, but with a 9s shifter it will likely always be a bit off in some of the gear changes. Obv an easy fix :)

Oooh this one is cool Gary! Been waiting for you Adam or Mark to build one.

Really looks like it rips dude - damn now I want one

Love to see you working with rigged up tools. Everyone has done it at some point

Great job!

Great build. I have a Clydesdale build with 1 inch steerer. It is one of my favourites. You look way more agile than me. I think you showed the advantage of the Clydesdale by ripping around. It is lighter and more agile than it appears. I find getting forward on the steering axis helps handling. Backyard/balcony mechanics rule!

I need this fork so much

This is a dream!

Nice work as always!

Came here for the washer dance 😂😂

I like it😎have seen some 20 inch forks for 28 inch frames from a german company for same transportation purpose…good to see more and more „upgrades“ for older bikes nearly every owner won‘t miss to ride🙂think it’s a lot of fun playing around with it😉btw on 25:11 there‘s some family „bike train“ in the background…seems to be a brompton folding bike leading it…nice surprise coming along☺️cheers mate👋🏻

happy new year gary

Sick bike

I always prefer it to shoot out of the tip... I want a cargo fork so bad. But they are pricey and hard to find like you said. Sick build as always Gary! And I didn't even know steerer tubes could be that long.

I use a cane creek 40 on my castellano fango, 10/10 headset for the price. I actually don’t use a headset press, I’ve found a large dead blow hammer actually works really well. I tried using a press but it was honestly kinda slow in comparison as opposed to just smacking it with a hammer. I do use one of those cheap Chinese headset removal tools, it’s it’s fine, I recommend any of the cheap ones tbh. I feel like for people who do this every day you’d want the nice tools. But my $10 one does the job fine.

Unior if your watching this send gary some tools !

thanks Gary, very nice mod, do you ever go bikepacking? the cargo bike would be spot on, great stuff

Great use of still very usable parts...👍

I had to shave the front wheel axle, too.

25:10 The best shot in the video (IMAO), four bikes for the price of one. 😁 Happy New Year to everyone!

smartbike!

Nice! How does it ride with heavier cargo?

You probably know this, but you can use a vacuum cleaner rod to get the crown race in place.

nice bike 👍

that freehub should come off with a 15mm allen key

Make the headset cup removal tool from a steel tube and it will work great 😊

Gary, you see any issues running a Clydesdale fork with a Free radical?

surely the rack would stop bar spins ?

Some of the Shimano's will thread off w/ a 10mm allen key.

Cool bananas....😀

I’m looking to buy one of these old style mountain bikes my self. Do you think they would be good for food deliveries. Also subbed

Sick! Can't help but notice the front brake pads are backwards though.

1 or 1 1/8 steerer on that cargo fork?

Can I order this setup I have a MTB I can put this on

the chainring aint too big?

17:20 I got the tool but the other day I swear I just used my hands. It was a SRAM 9spd chain with a fresh link..

Homie if you need a quicklink tool i will just get you one 😭

Get the right tools then you will be great lol! 😊

Front brake on the left! 😨

You made a mistake on the front brake pads. They are backwards!

Bar spin? lol

Garrrryyyyyy 🤘

You need to removed paint from dropouts, not metal from axel😅

cool, but not a cargo bike

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