Living in Montreal I’ve gotten to the point where I only ride my own bike when I’m transporting paniers of stuff or doing an overnight trip. I installed a double kickstand on my old bike and its worked well until today when my old frame kicked the bucket. I realized that what I basically want is a slightly long tail cargo bike. A rack that’s big and built in, not electric, normal sized wheels and straight handlebars. The weird thing is, I can’t find this product. I’d assume it would be a popular choice for people touring with a lot of kit, but almost everything I’ve found seems to be for electric urban cruising with a couple of kids on the back. Has anyone else looked for this product and encountered a similar gap in the market?

The Yuba Mundo Lux is probably as close as I’ve seen, but has anyone done a few full days on it? It’s probably too much to spend if it can’t handle a few days on tour.

Edit: I’ve decided to dabble with a cheap second hand aluminum Kona Ute, because I live in a salted road winter an aluminum frame is good to have around. If I like it, I’ll probably invest in an electric option for the other 3 seasons.

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Unfortunately I don’t have any recommendations for you, but I just wanted to say that I recently visited Montreal for the eclipse and I found myself feeling really jealous of your bike infrastructure compared to what we have around me in the Philadelphia area. I’m not super well-traveled, so maybe Philly is just that far behind the curve that anything else looks impressive, but at least from my perspective you guys really seemed to have it figured out.

I had a great time up there, probably one of my favorite cities I’ve ever visited, I’m already looking for excuses to go back.

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I used to live and bike in Philly on the bike share and it was pretty good back in 2015, have things just stalled out or something?

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