Recent content by cargodad

The bigger shipping whiplash will be if and when China and U.S. come to a deal and the China tariffs are reduced. The floodgates of containers that are currently sitting on factory floors in China will be released simultaneously, ships will be backlogged, delayed, and ocean freight rates will...

I’m not an economist. I don’t pretend to know the long term impacts of tariffs as a policy. Nor am I privy to the classified geo-political info that is informing decisions being made. But there is a sensible way to make major changes to policy that would give businesses the time to adapt, and...

x1000 (most of it on social media). Lots of people telling us to go get our parts made down at our local machine shop. I don’t think I’d trust them to make cargo bike capable hydraulic disc brakes…. Sorry. The ones I need are only made in one place in the world.

2.3 million viewers… you can’t ask for better advertising. Just comes with loads of hate mail! I already apologized to my team for it!

I got on Fox News today to share my experience on how tariffs are impacting our business. https://www.foxnews.com/video/6371367723112 I’m not against bringing manufacturing back to America, I think that’d be great actually, but to raise tariffs 125% in a week on one country, and then issue...

Easy way to do it here: https://5calls.org/

I own a cargo bike company in the U.S. and have seen our product costs rise 125% in the last 7 days. We have paid deposits for hundreds of thousands of dollars of product in production right now, and 7 days is not enough time to set up alternative supply chains. We have to significantly raise...

This one is a really special one. It wasn't even on my mind in the beginning, but we've learned that many of our customers have children with special needs. Kids that have never been able to bike on their own. This makes it hard for families who have multiple kids to do things like go on a...

When I started Bunch Bikes in 2017, I figured that the worst case scenario was no one would want to buy a bike like this in the U.S., and at least I could just keep the prototype for myself. I got the first prototype 5 days before my son (our 2nd child) was born. And he's ridden in the bike...

Hey this is a cool product. I’ve started to kind of tune out of long-tail bike updates as there are so many copies of one another and not many differentiating features of note. This is the first long-tail I’ve seen in a while with some fresh ideas. Very cool toddler foot box. Weird, but...

Ongoing tech support available for existing customers, although if it’s anything too complex they may opt to just refund. All sales in u.s. are in process of shutting down (we had some inventory and they are refunding us). They are moving entire focus to Taiwan RIP

I like the new box shape plus suspension fork. Green is nice too. Charging extra for those corner LEDs, knowing how cheap LEDs are, and how much Urban Arrow will probably charge for them... eh, don't love that as much.

This one is called the "Mini Bikehanger" and there idea is for this product to be a direct to customer product, whereas they've thus far primarily focused on larger storage units for commercial and government applications. Website here, but no pricing listed...

Got some intel from Roadio indirectly (A Bunch Bike customer who had purchased a system had a support conversation with Roadio related to install, and talked to a roadio employee who had been laid off due to company transition and was in final 2 weeks of employment). - Roadio is transitioning...

You know, I didn’t. And they have been extremely responsive to me in the past so it’s weird that they didn’t. Not a good sign.