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Cargo Bike Review – Trek Transport+

Momentum Mag reviews the Trek Transport+.

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The Trek Transport+ is a longtail cargo bike with a 350-watt rear hub motor, heavy-duty rims, fenders, front disc brake, rear V-brake, fold-down aluminum racks, cargo bag, lights, eight-speed freewheel (13–32), 38/ 28 chainrings with trigger shifters and has a carrying capacity of 250 pounds (113 kilograms). It’s part of Trek’s Gary Fisher Collection.

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This is a great-looking cargo bike. The electric hub motor keeps heavy loads manageable and uphill rides easy. The fold-down rear low-rider racks are genius.This bike is light enough to carry and the front rack is a useful addition (and the perfect spot to load a pizza!).

The kickstand that comes with the Transport+ is barely sufficient. When loading even the smallest amount of cargo on even terrain, the bike would topple over.

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Great for anyone looking for a cargo bike – as long as you have somewhere to store it because it’s probably not the best idea to leave it locked outside overnight.

The Trek Transport+ is a great bike overall. At first, I thought that this might even be the perfect cargo build. The 26″ x1.5 Bontrager H4 Hard-Case Plus anti-flat tires provide a smooth ride. The electric hub motor really evens out the hills or gives you a needed boost when fully loaded. The gear range is suited to hauling cargo around town and, with minor modification, could be set up for touring. The bash guard on the large chainring is a nice touch.

As with any electric assist, maintenance may be an issue, especially if firmware updates are needed. You won’t be able to simply plug a USB cable into the battery, only an authorized dealer with the proprietary cable can do that sort of service. Although, it’s unclear how often, if ever, it will be required. Is the motor worth the $1500 it adds to the price tag (the “plus” in Transport+)? I’ll put it to you this way: I’m not sure I’ll be able to go back to riding my own un-assisted cargo bike. I regularly carry 50+ pounds (23 kilograms) of cargo up Vancouver’s hills and the motor on the Transport+ makes it easy.

As with any cargo bike, you’ll need an easy access space to store it. While it’s not as heavy as one would expect, the length makes it a challenge, especially around corners and up stairs. The high-tech gear may also makes it attractive to would-be-thieves if you park it overnight on an urban street. A garage in a house or a bike room in a condo is your safest storage bet.

It’s also a great looking bike: I really like the matte metallic bronze paint colour. It has a not-too-aggressive or too-upright riding position to keep the rider comfortable but still able to stand to peddle when necessary, unlike some of the competition. The step-through aluminum frame makes it easy to mount the bike when the cargo area is loaded enough that you can’t swing your leg over. Plus, the fold down rear low-rider racks are a stroke of genius. They’re similar to Xtracycle’s wide-loaders but with the added advantage of folding-up to keep the bike narrow enough to fit through doorways. Overall, the designers at Trek really did a good job making an attractive bike. 

That brings me to the one major flaw (and what could be a deal-breaker for me): the kickstand. Assuming you manage to load the bike evenly (and that seems unlikely), take caution with precious cargo: the kickstand is too weak to be considered reliable, especially when left unattended or parked on uneven ground. My first suggestion if you buy this bike: replace the stock kickstand with something more robust. My second suggestion is for Trek: It’s positioned too far forward on the bike, making it nearly impossible to load heavy cargo without assistance. The bike consistently tipped as I loaded it, even with small loads. Look to Xtracycle’s KickBack for inspiration: the kickstand needs to be placed closer to the cargo, much wider, and all metal (yes, the legs of the stock stand are partly adjustable plastic. With the current setup, it’s as if Trek’s designers didn’t talk to people who use other cargo bikes to see what’s available or test this bike before going into full production. I really hope Trek offers an upgrade or fixes this in future versions of the Transport+. At $2800+, I shouldn’t have to even think about the kickstand, it should have been central to the design of this bike.

The Trek Transport+ is a great bike overall. Tons of cargo capacity in the rear and on the front rack. The BionX electric hub motor really evens out the hills, especially when fully loaded. The gear range is suited to hauling cargo around town and, with minor modification, could be set up for touring. It’s also a great-looking bike: nice paint color, a not-too-aggressive or too-upright riding position, step-through frame and attractive design.

Momentum Mag contacted Trek to find out what the deal was with firmware updates and if there were any changes to the kickstand in the works. Here are their responses:

[Trek] We receive firmware updates periodically from our electronics vendor. Occasionally these include mildly enhanced features. That said, it is not necessary to get updates frequently. We recommend that the dealer perform the update whenever the customer brings their bike by the store. Performing an update is simple and fast (less than 3 minutes). In the event that a critical update were to release, we notify the Ride + dealers so that they may reach out to their customers and let them know that they should bring the bike in for an update. It has been over 2 years since the last critical update was released.

[Trek] The kickstand is a challenge to be sure. Our bike design has fold down load carriers which would obscure an extra-wide kickstand like the one linked above. The kickstand that is included on the Transport has adjustable leg lengths so that the bike can lean at rest which makes the bike easier to load from one side. Usability of the bike was the first priority. We’re looking at new kickstand options but the unit that is on the bike is what will come with Transport+ in the immediate future.

This bike was generously put together by Bicycle Sports Pacific in Vancouver, BC. bspbikes.com

Chris Bentzen is a freelance creative-type and transportation cyclist from Vancouver, BC. While he definitely doesn’t need another bike, he’s always on the lookout for the perfect ride (be it cargo or for daily use). His most recent project is Hot Art Wet City hotartwetcity.com and you can find out more about him at bentzen.ca and @bentzen on Twitter.

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I got a used one of these about 3 weeks ago. I test rode it one week and expected to hate it. I didn’t. If anything, it made me change my mind on buying a Big Dummy. I have a Pugsley and the BD frame reminds me of that style wise, but longer. Me being short, thinking about the lack of dropped top tube for easy on/off made me take notice. Then it was the folding side loaders for cargo support, again up charge on BD. And then the nice bags on the TT. And the upswept bars. And the ergo grips. And the front rack…Pretty soon after adding up all the extras, we are taking serious money! So for the price and having everything on it I was looking for, I figured why not? I LOVE IT! I made a rear rack seat cushion and stoker bars for my son and made footpegs and wheelskirts for safety. And I switched out the stock tires for smoother riding balloon schwalbe fat franks. Every time I ride it, I love it more! It rides like a normal bike for the most part. The only time I can tell the oddness of it when I stand and pedal rock hard up a hill, then you notice the length as it just feels sluggish in the rear. These aren’t common where I live(they should be though…our town has extensive Rails to Trails paved system throughout town) and people are always asking me about my bike. What is that? What does it do? Is it heavy? Hard to ride? How much was that? And it makes my kids smile when they ride on the back. But it might make me smile too:)

I have one of these. I love it for the price. Easy to pedal 30+ miles at a time. The kick stand is junk. I just lean mine against something for loading. I don’t have the motor. In costal Georgia I don’t need it. My 3 year old uses a tandem handle bar setup and pad to ride on the rear rack. On a fun per dollar scale, it’s the best bike I have ever gotten.

reply to above comment: I agree that there should have been more discussion of range etc, but since it is using a third-party system the specs are known (watts, Ah, etc). It would be useful to translate it into some kind of real-world data. I.E. I did this gps route w/ XX lbs of cargo+bike+rider and was able to go XX miles.

personal comment:

I thought all the other cargo bike reviews were well done and caught a lot of things that most people (who don’t normally ride cargo bikes) miss.

However, this review of the Transport really misses the boat. I was going to say that aluminum is a totally inadequate material for a cargo bike but I won’t, since Larry v Harry seem to have figured it out. But it does require rivnuts instead of braze-ons, and the Transport has plenty of rivnuts on the rear end, which are just begging to come loose (I worked at a Trek dealer, some of them did come loose on the Transport during the initial build).

And….kids. There is no kids seat that will fit the Transport rack w/o modification (“Trek’s legal department frowns on the idea of carrying passengers on the back of the Transport” – http://www.flickr.com/photos/cold_iron/5178560157/ ) and is difficult on the front since the front rack may interfere w/ front mounted seats.

I find it hard to believe that the childless cargo hauler that this bike is aimed at wouldn’t be better served by a Civia Halstead (even with its subpar kickstand).

I feel that is one more case of Trek compromising on design to the point of uselessness. Of course they could have designed a kickstand that would work better, but they would rather use off-the-shelf parts than go the extra mile to spec something that actually works. People will buy it because there are a lot more Trek dealers than Yuba/Kona/Extracycle dealers, too bad.

An ebike review without any mention of what sort of range you got and what conditions you put it through? What kind of load can it handle up a steep hill? What’s it’s limits? I personally don’t care as I build my own ebikes.

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Blix Bikes has an ongoing  Amazing Spring Savings sale  that is taking up to $700 off its e-bikes and also including up to $500 in free add-on accessories while supplies last. One of the notable standouts is Blix’s  Ultra Fat-Tire All-Terrain e-bike for  $1,399 shipped , with  $328 in free accessories  along with your purchase. Down from its $2,099 price tag, today’s deal gives you back a combined $1,028 in savings and lands at a new all-time low, beating out Black Friday prices. Along with the e-bike you’ll also be receiving your free accessories package that includes both a front and rear rack, a cushion for the rear rack, and passenger foot pegs for the rear as well. Blix also offers an additional way to save by using the promo code  RIDETOGETHER  for  $200 off  when purchasing two e-bikes together.

The Blix Ultra e-bike  is equipped with a 750W geared rear hub motor and your choice between one or two 48V batteries that pushes this e-bike up to max speeds of 20 to 28 MPH and travels a range of 40-80 miles, depending on your choice of battery setup. It offers five levels of pedal-assist with a 12-magnet cadence sensor, and a full digital display that relays real-time information such as battery level, odometer, speedometer, travel distance, pedal assist settings, and also supports Bluetooth connectivity to the Blix app for more comprehensive performance data. It also comes stocked with an integrated LED headlight and a pair of 26-inch fat tires for a smoother ride. Plus, with this deal you’ll also be getting the rear rack that can hold cargo and passengers alike with the added foot pegs should you be bringing another person along with you.

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The official Anker Amazon storefront is offering its  PowerCore Reserve 60,000mAh Power Station for  $109.99 shipped ,  after clipping the on-page $40 off coupon . Recently fetching $150, with an original $170 MSRP, this device rode its MSRP throughout 2023, with only a few discounts ever occurring – the biggest of which dropped costs to a $119 low. In the new year we saw a drop down to its new list price as the company switched from LiFePO4 batteries to typical models, followed by a drop in price to its new $105 low at the start of last month. Today’s deal comes in as a repeat 27% markdown off the going rate that lands at the second-lowest price we have tracked.

This  power station  has a 60,000mAh (192Wh) capacity that is tailored for personal use throughout your days rather than powering your camping sites. It sports a compact design of 4.59 inches by 4.59 inches by 8.17 inches and only weighs 5 pounds, making it easy to store and carry. You can even connect it to a solar panel for solar charging on-the-go, taking just 4 hours with a 60W input. It features a built-in retractable light with two brightness modes alongside an S.O.S. button to provide emergency lighting for safety during power outages or other emergency situations. You’ll also get four output ports to cover your personal devices: two USB-As and two USB-Cs. And for protection, you can even get a custom  co2CREA Hard Case for  $33 .

Bosch Tronic 4000 6.5kW Electric Tankless Water Heater now $158

Amazon is offering the  Bosch Thermotechnology Tronic 4000 6.5kW Electric Tankless Water Heater for  $158.40 shipped . Down from $250, it spent the first half of 2023 keeping between its MSRP and $200. It wasn’t until Labor Day sales that we saw it drop further to its former $160 low, which we didn’t see beaten until March when its fell to the new $154 low. Today’s deal comes in as a 37% markdown off the going rate that gives you a solid $92 in savings and returns costs to the second-lowest price we have tracked.  This 6.5kW under-sink tankless water heater  is designed to provide an endless supply of instantaneous hot water to one or more commercial/residential sinks. It can be installed in a 360 degree orientation, with its 13-inch by 8.5-inch by 4.5-inch size making it easy to fit in tight under-counter spaces, and its low 0.55 GPM activation flow rate works perfectly for commercial low-flow faucets. It boasts a 96% thermal efficiency rate with no standby heat loss, saving you time, water, and money.

Spring e-bike deals!

• GoTrax Everest Electric Dirt Bike: $5,999 (Reg. $6,500)
• Super73 RX Electric Motorbike: $2,999 (Reg. $3,695)
• Juiced JetCurrent Pro Foldable e-bike (pre-order): $2,499 (Reg. $2,799)
• Juiced’s HyperScrambler 2: $1,999 (Reg. $3,499)
• Vanpowers UrbanGlide Ultra e-bike: $1,899 (Reg. $2,499)
• Aventon Aventure.2 All-Terrain e-bike with free extra battery: $1,799 ($2,499 value)
• Aventon Abound Cargo e-bike with $372 in free accessories: $1,799 (Reg. $2,199)
• Hover-1 Altai Pro R750 e-bike: $1,490 (Reg. $3,000)
• Electric Bike Co. Model J e-bike: $1,299 (Reg. $1,499)
• Lectric XPress 750 High-Step e-bike with extra battery (pre-order): $1,299 (Reg. $1,799)
• Lectric XPress 750 Step-Thru e-bike with extra battery (pre-order): $1,299 (Reg. $1,799)
• Vanpowers UrbanGlide Pro e-bike: $1,299 (Reg. $1,899)
• Velotric Nomad 1 e-bike: $1,299 (Reg. $1,799)
• Velotric Discover 1 e-bike: $1,099 (Reg. $1,599)
• Vanpowers UrbanGlide Standard e-bike: $999 (Reg. $1,299)
• Schwinn Ridgewood Electric Mountain Bike: $800 (Reg. $1,500)
• Schwinn Ingersoll Electric Hybrid Bike: $700 (Reg. $1,500)

Other new Green Deals landing this week

The savings this week are also continuing to a collection of other markdowns. To the same tune as the offers above, these all help you take a more energy-conscious approach to your routine. Winter means you can lock in even better off-season price cuts on electric tools for the lawn while saving on EVs and tons of other gear.

• Hover-1 Instinct electric bike falls to new $432 low (Reg. $1,000), more EVs starting from $280
• Save $1,346 on Hover-1’s blue Altai Pro R500 e-bike at $954, more EVs starting from $280
• RadRover 6 Plus high-step e-bike hits new $1,099 low during Rad Power’s latest flash sale
• Rachio 3 smart 4-zone sprinkler controller keeps yards vibrant and lowers bills for new $99 low
• Save $230 on the EGO Power+ 21-inch cordless electric mower at $419 low, more from $123
• Save up to $300+ on TENWAYS CGO series e-bikes with bonus savings starting from $1,499
• Save $501 on GoTrax’s Everest electric dirt bike with 53 MPH top speeds
• Husqvarna’s Automower 115H robotic lawn mower with smart controls now $599 (Reg. $700)
• Amazon Basics 2,000mAh rechargeable AA NiMH battery 16-pack falls 33% to $18

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A home stager is a professional who prepares a house for sale, aiming to attract more buyers and potentially secure a higher selling price. They achieve this through the following techniques:

• Rearranging furniture to optimize space and functionality.
• Decluttering to create a clean and spacious look.
• Making repairs to address visible issues.
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• Introducing new furnishings to update the style.

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A ride across passages of history - Moscow Metro rolls on

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Lying at a depth of 5 (Pechatniki station) to 80 metres (Park Pobedy station), the history of the last eight decades unfold before your eyes, carved out of marble and granite and built in iron and glass – revealing the tastes, ideas, dreams, hopes and disappointments of the previous generations and contemporaries. The Moscow Metro dates back to 1931, when its construction first began, although engineers Pyotr Balinsky and Evgeny Knorre submitted their first designs to the Moscow City Duma as far back as 1902. “His speeches carried a strong temptation: like a true demon, he would promise to cast Moscow down to the bottom of the sea and raise it above the clouds”, a journalist for the Russkoye Slovo newspaper commented on Balinsky’s idea. Yet the Duma, made up of rich people, did not bite the bait: after all, they all lived in the centre of the city and never rode overcrowded trams.

After five failed proposals before the Duma, the Moscow Metro finally threw open its doors on May 15, 1935, 18 years after the revolution, and carried the first passengers on its moving staircases, escalators, and the padded seats of its new wagons (unlike the wooden seats in trams). The first metro line – from Sokolniki to Dvorets Sovetov (now known as Kropotkinskaya) -- was 11 km long and had 13 stations. Now, the Moscow Metro has a track of over 300 km with 12 lines and 182 stations. The city’s development outline for 2020 envisages that, by then, another 120 km will have been added to the existing routes.

For the first 20 years of its history, the Moscow Metro was named after Lazar Kaganovich, the “iron commissar” and Stalin’s right hand man, who was in-charge of construction of the first stage of the metro (incidentally, he personally blew up the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in December 1931 as a part of the Proletarian Capital project). In 1955, however, the Metro was renamed after Vladimir Lenin. Although Russia has long since changed its political track, you can still find the images of the former leader at over 10 stations, including, for instance, busts of Lenin at Belorusskaya and Komsomolskaya stations, impressive mosaics at Baumanskaya and Kievskaya stations, a tile panel in the passage between the Borovitskaya and Biblioteka Imeni Lenina stations. By a bitter irony of fate, Lenin’s full-face and side-face images decorate the Tsaritsyno (translated as the Tsarina’s Estate) station (dubbed Lenino up until 1990) – images of the very person who ordered the shooting of the royal family. You will not, however, find any images of Stalin in Moscow’s underground. A symbol of Russia's victory, he was omnipresent in the late 1940s. After his death in 1953 and the denunciation of Stalin’s personality cult, his images were gradually withdrawn from the Moscow Metro.

“Architecture developed along the same lines, both above and below the surface. Anything that emerged above ground had a reflection underground. It is equally true that vice versa never occurred: good architecture underground but bad architecture above the ground,” says Nikolay Shumakov, chief architect of the Moscow Metro. The first metro stations, up until the mid-1950s, were conceived and built as luxurious “palaces for the people”, great architecture for a great state. Art historians insist that the richly-decorated underground was a deliberate ideological move to eulogise the young Soviet country. Stations built between 1937 and 1955 are characteristic of the first architectural period. Everything completed at this time is worthy of special attention. For instance, look at the ceiling at Mayakovskaya and Novokuznetskaya stations to see mosaic panels based on designs by artist Alexander Deineka – 24-Hour Soviet Sky and Heroic Labour of the Soviet People on the Home Front. The mosaics were assembled by famous mosaic artist Vladimir Frolov, author of the mosaic icons in St. Petersburg’s Church of the Saviour on Blood. The Ploshchad Revolutsii station was decorated with 76 bronze sculptures of workers, soldiers, farmers, students and other Soviet people. You can even find a frontier guard with a dog and rub its nose for good luck. You may also note that all the figures (except pioneers) are either sitting or bent, which engendered the sad joke – “Any Soviet man is either in jail or on his knees.”

 Elements of decoration in Moscow's metro.   Photos by Alexandr Ganyushin

1955 heralded the end of the good times for Russian architecture – both underground and above ground – after the Communist Party issued a decree "On elimination of extravagance in design and construction.” Dull stations, without any stucco work, mosaics, original columns or other “unjustified” elements, were built under the slogan “Kilometres at the expense of architecture”. Things were the same above the ground, where entire cities were built of commonplace five-storey apartment blocks, all looking the same, nicknamed ‘Khrushchevkas’ after the then leader, Nikita Khrushchev. To get a sense of this period’s architecture, see the few stations built in the 1960s-1980s like Tverskaya, Kitay-Gorod and Kolomenskaya. In 2002, with the reconstruction of the Vorobyovy Gory station, the development of the Moscow Metro entered a third stage, which could be defined as ‘renaissance’. The platform of the station offers a splendid view of the Moskva River, the Luzhniki Olympic Complex and the Academy of Sciences building. Architectural canons of the 1930s-1940s were once again in use in the design of underground stations. By the same token, artists once again become involved in decorating the stations. As such, the Sretensky Bulvar station boasts silhouettes of Pushkin, Gogol, and Timiryazev and Moscow sights; the Dostoevskaya station is decorated with black-and-white panels featuring the main characters from Dostoyevsky’s novels The Idiot, Demons, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and the Maryina Roshcha station flaunts its pastoral mosaic landscapes. In 2004, Russia's first monorail transport system was launched into service – an elevated track (running 6 to 12 metres above the ground) in the northern part of Moscow, linking the All-Russian Exhibition Centre and the Timiryazevskaya metro station. The evolution of the Moscow Metro goes on. It’s still a work in progress, with ambitious plans to move the Moscow Metro even closer to passengers over the next ten years, not just by adding an extra 120 km to its total track. “We want to strip the stations of everything we can,” says Nikolai Shumakov. “We are trying to show the passengers their very framework, what the metro is made of. Cast iron and concrete are beautiful.”

Joy ride: Read Gogol, Dante or savour art

The Aquarelle Train.   Source: Reuters/Vostock-Photo

With any luck, you can ride in a retro train, a moving art gallery or a library. The trains are actually a part of the general traffic (i.e., they do not run to any special schedule) and are used on certain lines. The Reading Moscow Train , an ordinary train on the face of it, features extracts from literary works for adults and children. Each wagon has its own selection, from children’s fairy tales to Gogol. Circle Line. The Poetry in Metro Train carries an exposition, updated this year, dedicated to Italian poets Dante Alighieri, Francesco Petrarch, Giacomo Leopardi, etc. All the poems are featured in two languages, Russian and Italian. Filevskaya Line. The Sokolniki Retro Train looks exactly like the first Moscow Metro train, both inside and out. Painted brown, it has padded seats, typical wall decorations and retro lamps. Sokolnicheskaya Line. The Aquarelle Train looks like a cabinet painted with flowers and fruit on the outside. Inside, it is an art gallery featuring art reproductions from the Vyatka Apollinary and Viktor Vasnetsov Art Museum. Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line.

Revolution Square station (built in 1938) is close to the Red Square area. There are 72 sculptures in the station, depicting the people of the Soviet Union, including soldiers, farmers, athletes, writers, industrial workers and school children.

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