I always love that @ternbicycles knows how to build bikes that speak to me, as. queer person.
The new Tern Orox: an all terrain cargo e-bike! In case I want to ride to the grocery store through the mountains! (Being very utterly serious about this!)
It's basically the Subaru for climate conscious lesbians like me
@skinnylatte I look forward to checking that out. With what happened to me here at UC Davis, I lost the ability to lift my leg high enough to mount the Bridgestone MB-3 I have attached to an Xtracycle Freeloader.
I've been looking for something like this (gotta sell old bikes first).
@meganL@skinnylatte As someone who likes to take the single track home from Costco on my GSD, I think the main thing that makes the Tern Orox ($6,500) preferable to say a Surly Skid Loader ($4,800) or something in the same class but cheaper is the ability to use your accessories on both bikes. I mean unless you're made of money and you want a belt drive Rohloff hub motor. I don't even know how much those cost, but the GSD version is double the base GSD model.
@HayiWena I'm just interested in more information.
If the manufacturer had refused to do a free replacement of the cargo quad frame, I would have been in the immediate market for a hybrid or all-terrain cargo bike, preferably with some folding ability.
At this point, it's more like something I can attend to when I have time & money.
@dr2chase@meganL As a Big Dummy owner who has also ridden that on single track (unloaded), I'm not sure the Big Easy is nippy enough for the kinds of adventuring the Oryx is targeted for. I can't think of a good low stand-over height option in a 26"+ wheel size intended for off-road hauling. The Oryx struck me as a really niche bike with a huge ticket, until I put two and two together with the accessories. I guess the Xtracycle RFA might be in the same class with the lowest step-over height.
@HayiWena@dr2chase@meganL the xtracycle edgerunner (now replaced by "swoop" with slightly lower step-thru) has a 20in rear but if you can roll over something with the 26in front, you can usually ride it out, though I generally stop/slow and crank the rear wheel up a curb if it's over ~5in, depending on how much load is on the back. I have a 10sp derailler but one might want an IGH on that if concerned about catching sticks and leaves in it.
@enobacon Okay but now I want video of you hopping a curb on a long-tail ebike. That sounds like core strength that a body that had two c-sections an only dream about.
@HayiWena It's much less hopping and more unweighting the front wheel as it rolls up, shifting my weight forward to unweight the rear only does so much if loaded, then time the pedal stroke to climb the curb. Just like a bunny hop but bumpier. If the curb is very sharp or tall, roll rear wheel right up to it and stop, put one foot down and the other on the pedal at like 1-o'clock, and stand onto it.
@HayiWena@dr2chase@meganL@skinnylatte here's some curb stunts on an edgerunner. It (or the swoop) would do fine with groceries on mild-mid singletrack but the schwalbe pick-up 20x2.35 is the biggest rear tire it will take under the stock fender, might fit ~3in with mods.
@skinnylatte@ternbicycles If I didn't already have three Tern bikes in my garage, I would absolutely be buying the Orox for exactly this purpose. I don't live by mountains, but I do live along a muddy rocky trail called Forbidden Drive, and I often use it for my grocery runs. In particular, we belong to a pick-your-own CSA where we travel to a farm on the other side of Forbidden Drive and gather our own produce from the fields once a week.
My GSD does OK, but the trails are a bit rough on it.
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