The skateboard deck was replaced with a proper Xtracycle flight deck. This mounts onto the rails with bolted on hooks and are very strong. They recommend these if you carry human cargo. Onto this is a Magic Carpet, this is the grey seat running on the deck. Its a very comfortable but dense padding and is in a waterproof cover with reflective piping, with the back being a red reflective material. This straps down onto the top rail at 9 points so will never move. Then I put the U Tubes on, these are the rails that run along the side at foot height. This is where things went a bit confusing, the U Tubes fitted into the rails at each end and they had 2 holes near the end of the tubes with one at each end lining up with the holes in the Dummy frame. The tubes came supplied with four bolts, problem was my frame only had a hole on one side of the tube and the U Tube holes had no threading. After a bit of checking it turns out they sent me the later tubes as the earlier ones for the Dummy have a little spring loaded pin that when it gets pushed into the frame and aligns, then the pin pops out through the frame to stop the tube coming out. To remove, just push the pin in and slide the tube out. So U Tubes winging their way back to London and older tubes being sourced, hopefully wont be too long.
Anyway its getting there, just looking for a set of Nitto Albatross bars for Caleb but just hope they are not too wide, just need something with a wide sweep for him. Maybe there is some sort of kids swept back bars. Oh and I also need another set of bar ends for his footrest, just need to find something straight with a curve at the end as the old Specialized ones I have on there at the moment are slightly curved and when mounted for foot pegs they sweep upwards slightly.
Anyway just thought I would share.
You know you can even get a sidecar type platform for the side
It's all for carrying cargo, more so than for anything else. There is longloaders for carrying things like surfboards or long lengths of timber, wideloaders for carrying wide loads.The wideloaders are similar to the U Tubes only they stick out about 4 inches further. You can put them on one side or both. This stuff is all pretty 'modular' if that's the right word and so while it all fits many different cargo bikes and xtracycles Freeradical, you generally end up with very different type builds depending on what you want to do with it. It's a whole other world and thankfully I picked up the accessories at a pre Brexit price but it's looking like I might have a bit of hassle finding the replacement tubes in the UK or Europe and the same price.
I put the U Tubes on the side so there is somewhere for Caleb to stand to get on and off, though there is a bit of the frame that comes out, it also is to support anything your carrying and also the slot between the tubing along the rail fits the front wheel of a bike no problem so you can tow a bike as well, so when I take him somewhere to practice riding his bike, I just slot it in the back and tow it.
Jamie
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