I am a male that have had a disability since birth and cant no longer ride a two-wheel bike because of my bad balance. About a couple of months I will buy a sweden made three-wheel cargobike that is made for people with disabities. The reason I chose a cargobike is that I want to take some luggage with me incase I wanna go far away and also you dont need to put down your leg in the ground when you stop.
It is an electric bike with the electric motor placed in the middle where the pedals are. A bike with a center motor is the best and strongest electric motor. Riding a three-wheel bike is a bit different from riding two-wheel bikes. First its much bigger and heavier than a two-wheeler, second it costs same as a used car. A three wheel bike is also good if you have kids, there is space for four or six kids or a dog in the front box and you can even change the entire frontbox to fit whatever you want to use it for.
Depending on the landscape or if you have much luggage with you the battery lasts up to 5-6 swedish miles on one fully charge battery. Ofcourse you dont need to buy a three-wheel bike just for taking your kids or your dog out there is many other ways to use a three-wheel bike but they are NOT competition bikes, more a touring or cruising-bike.
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@CyberSmuf Yes, his bike looks identical to your's in the photo except he chose a kid-carrying option instead of the closed box like your photo shows. The kid-carrying option also has stowage but it has no lid and the sides are mesh screen instead of solid.
He cautioned me in saying that the only problem he's had with it is the mounting bolts of the carrier to the frame itself, where the bolts come loose very easily from vibration because of the style of bolts and fasteners that were used.
He remedied the situation by swapping out the factory bolts with a combination of lock-washers with bolt nuts that have nylon inserts which are anti-loosening by design, which he purchased for about $5 at Home Depot.
If you'd like me to provide a picture of that modified bolt/nut I will post one here.
@swirlie Yes please show me a pic of the modified bolts. But maybe it depends too if he drives on gravel or tarmac. In my bike, that I will buy in a couple of months there is two benches in the frontbox with belts for four kids but I dont have kids so I gonna use it for other things.
@CyberSmuf He drives on both gravel and tarmac which is part of the problem, yet that really shouldn't make a difference but it does. It's the type of bolt, nut and flat washers that were used in Sweden, instead of a fine-threaded bolt and nut with a lock washer.
They were all coarse-threaded bolts and nuts ...and no lock washer at all.
@swirlie I will mostly drive on tarmac and I also have a walking frame that I need to take with me everwhere I go and my thought was to carry this walking frame in the frontbox on the bike. Thanks for the tip. I can ask a bike workshop if they can help me to change the bolts.
