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the time matt and i both ride enough that we tear through the crotches of our pants pretty regularly so it didn t take long to resolve that problem however the packster has a belt drive so i could probably wear palazzo pants if i owned this bike belt drives have other advantages as well smooth operation longevity no rust and no need for lubrication i could wear white palazzo pants and reduced weight front with suspension and an outstanding light there are really great accessories and most of them are included in the price of the bike the wired front and rear lights are incredible i don t often have a chance to test ride bikes at night but because this one stayed with us for about a week i did and the throw on the front light of the packster is the best i ve ever experienced it lit up exactly the section of the road i needed to see to get around the kickstand is sprung so that it s easy to release down and ranks in the stability range of the bakfiets nl making it almost impossible to tip over even when three or four kids swarm it because the stand uses an enclosed frame you can also lock it to a ground puck through the kickstand we recently started locking our bikes to floor pucks in the wake of several hot prowl thefts of cargo bikes from garages in our neighborhood it has a rear wheel lock which is of course totally inadequate as a primary lock here in san francisco but is enough in combination with another lock to discourage many bike thieves the pedals and saddle are nothing special but they re perfectly adequate if you are so inclined you can add three point restraints and a cushioned bench seat to the box the bike i rode had these there is also a rain cover available although no bell locked to a floor anchor through the kickstand this is cool thus far the packster is the only cargo bike i ve ever been able to bunny hop onto a curb i usually would never even attempt such a thing but while i was riding the bike back to the shop i got stuck behind two broken down buses which had led to an epic traffic meltdown after waiting a few minutes in the completely stopped car traffic i figured i had nothing to lose by trying to drag the bike onto the sidewalk and walk it past the buses i could barely believe it when the front wheel popped right up over the curb and glided up to the sidewalk my bet is that this is related to the suspension on the front fork but who cares why it works the fact that it did work was totally awesome the packster is surprisingly easy to park for a front loader i was edgy when the new wheel handed it off with a standard u lock which can be problematic for our other big bikes however my cargo lock had gone with my bike to the shop for a tune up so i didn t have a choice while the packster has a pretty hefty frame the rear of the bike is pretty lean the loaner had no rear rack but i don t think a standard rear rack would add any volume here so we had no trouble backing it into almost any rack or parking meter to lock up the usual caveats apply about trying to lift it up a flight of stairs though meaning no way yet combined with its ability to hop over curbs the packster is shockingly maneuverable for a long john this is a very clean look and easy to operate as well it looks cool although i try not to get hung up on aesthetics there is value to having a bike that i look at and say i want to ride that i was particularly impressed by the way all the wiring has been corralled in front in the past i have referred to the advice i once read to buy the cool bike i think liking your bike is especially relevant for cargo bikes which are sometimes kind of big and intimidating and are used to haul loads that understandably may give people pause in my case that s two squirming kids who are old enough to make their own fun often by fighting with each other beauty is in the eye of the beholder of course and my sense is that bikes with curvy frames seem friendlier than sharp edged bikes like the packster but after years of drive by parenting i m actually not interested in looking any more approachable than i already do anyway i found myself wanting to ride this bike what i don t like about this bike nice controller oh look we cracked it almost everything on the list of things that i didn t like about the packster could be summarized as first generation issues meaning that they re either aesthetic or correctable annoyances one of the ones that hit us on the second day was the fact that this particular bike looks interesting enough particularly loaded up that people around us could be frankly jerks when i was riding with the kids in golden gate park i tried to ride to a bike rack to park but was stopped by a guy standing in front of me on the street to get a closer look at the bike i answered a couple of his questions at which point he stopped talking and just stood there staring at us as mentioned above i m already way too approachable then i said i d like to get to the racks over there he said oh and stepped back and then just as i started riding again stepped right back out in front of us and because i am evidently way too nice a person i didn t run him over so instead we all went down my kids started screaming the guy immediately vaporized and the controller cracked i m sorry new wheel anyway i put this problem in the same category as vandalism and i hope anyone who happens to buy the bike will mow him down for me next time and generally beware of looky loos as always i note that there is a learning curve for bikes with linkage steering don t look at the front wheel look at your destination i can t tell anymore how easy or hard it is to pick up the steering on a particular make or model because once i mastered it on the bullitt i had no trouble with any of the others some lucky souls pick it up right away some people me struggle for a few days and how quickly a person picks it up seems completely unrelated to experience riding other bikes so who knows the possibility of dropping the bike on a test ride is real and it s something to keep in mind i expect that owning a bike shop that sells front loaders offers a real challenge to one s equanimity during test rides similarly the turning radius on all front loaders is pretty terrible what with the long wheel base and this bike is no exception tight u turns are a thing of the past it may be hard to see but this is too much reach at several points while i was riding i wondered if riese müller had a single woman test ride this bicycle before bringing it to market or even a non german person by which i mean a smaller person although there are signals that it s intended to be accessible to people of a range of heights including the low step over height of the frame and the quick releases to adjust the seat and handlebar heights one miss that stood out for me was the huge reach required to reach the brake levers i felt uncomfortable going down steep hills for this reason and for a woman i have long fingers i could reach a tenth on the piano back in high school an advantage that kept me playing far longer than my talent supported dialing that back to a shorter reach is something that any bike shop that wants to sell this bike to moms should probably do and i know it can be done similarly the box is a sort of origami structure held together by what i assume based on what my neighbor stores in our shared garage is a motorcycle tie down strap the ratchet cam that secures it is placed at the back left of the box this is perfectly positioned for anyone who is swinging a leg over the top bar to hit their right foot on it as they dismount several times ouch i presume that the tall german men who designed the bike were always lifting their leg over the back of the bike to dismount so this never came up for them i learned to pull back on the dismount after a while but it kind of ticked me off so many times i hit that thing on the dismount while the kickstand is rock solid and goes down to support with a mere touch of the foot it can be tricky to get back up what s supposed to happen is that you push the bike forward and it snaps up automatically what actually happens depends on what type of surface happens to be under the bike when we were on rough asphalt the kickstand gripped enough that it popped right up when we were on smooth cement like on the sidewalk it sort of dragged along and wouldn t go up without riding for a while or without me sticking a foot under it to nudge it before i got on i suspect that applying some kind of grip tape on the bottom of the kickstand would provide enough friction to resolve this but as is it s finicky incredibly stiff and annoying rear wheel lock although the packster mostly rides like a dream the wheel lock and battery attachments are very stiff i like having a rear wheel lock but i loathed trying to operate this one so much that i almost gave up on it it was bizarre because the u lock i was using was also made by abus and was easy to operate yet only the fact that i did not actually own the bike combined with the high levels of bike theft in san francisco made me endure messing with that wheel lock the plug attachment for the battery is also persnickety and hard to connect similarly the quick release adjustments on the handlebars and seat post while awesome in principle are not particularly intuitive or easy to operate i felt a weird dissonance between the times that i was riding the bike this bike is great and the times that i was getting on the bike getting off the bike or locking up the bike and charging it this bike is so annoying some of this may be the fact that it was just unboxed and not everything is working smoothly yet my experience with the older abus u lock would support this hypothesis however although the battery plug seems designed to be annoying note that at this level we were constantly doing a helmet v handlebars contest while the bike itself sometimes assumes a tall rider the accessories are sized for the littlest kids we did not have the rain cover on the bike that i test rode which is just as well because i could tell just by looking at the photo that older kids like mine would not fit under it my daughter s attempt to try the three point restraints left her laughing maniacally at how impossible it was while my kids appreciated the width of the box their legs were a bit cramped the box is a bit shallower than we re used to as well so although it was possible to put both kids and a pile of groceries in the bike we weren t breaking any maximum load records and because i didn t figure out how to make height adjustments until i returned the bike see above the handlebars and brake levers struck their helmets when we were riding together at the highest height point there s clearance for tall kids and short adults but i couldn t get it there when we had the bike overall the length and width of the packster 60 is roughly comparable to the bullitt but the standard box is shorter shallower and wider although the packster 80 would presumably be longer the model i rode was better sprung for riding unloaded than loaded which was interesting this is pretty nitpicky because the ride is great regardless however the handling improved when it was unloaded in this it is unlike our bullitt when i returned the bike to the new wheel they mentioned that riese müller supply stiffer springs that could be installed in front that would probably reverse this making the ride better loaded than unloaded if i were planning to use this bike for heavy loads and why get it if not i would want to make that switch the bosch middrive assist is not silent the higher levels of assist are extremely not silent i had a boyfriend in college who later went to law school and after he graduated he took a job at a big firm and decided to buy an affordable sports car with his new salary a mazda miata as we still hung out at times i rode with him in it occasionally and thus i had the opportunity to experience why it was an affordable sports car the engine noise was like a chorus of howling demons by comparison the bosch at level 4 i would classify as more like the whining of a moderately annoyed demon for a bicycle it s pretty loud relative to cars it s not offensive but relative to other bicycles it s a miata occasionally the general awesomeness of the ride was interrupted by a weird thunking sound from the gears on hill starts it never persisted and it didn t happen often but it was unnerving last and certainly not least this bike like all front loaders is pretty expensive the version i rode is priced at 5900 which does include the lights and whatnot however the kid accessories like the rain cover and so on are extra as is a second battery i can t price those accessories as the bike just came out so i couldn t find them listed things i can only speculate about as always with a new bike on the market i can t speak to reliability that said this is not a one off manufacturer the parts are all pretty high end and german engineering has a reputation for reliability recent exceptions like volkswagen notwithstanding personally i wouldn t feel any real concern i m not sure how well the packster would handle a fully loaded start on a steep hill although it is great starting from zero on moderate hills and for those living outside of san francisco that s probably more than enough after i dumped the bike my kids were not eager to get back in the box for extended test rides so the steepest hills i rode were all without them on board our usual bikes are bionx assisted and we use the boost buttons to make the steep uphill starts as a comparison i tried making a steep start from a dead stop with the assist dialed up to 4 and the gearing down low and the packster took off pretty fast however where we live i d want to test ride it with the kids on board before i felt completely confident if that s relevant the new wheel has the packster i rode sitting out in front and available for test rides at 420 cortland avenue in bernal heights i realized how i felt about the packster when i rode back to the shop to pick up the edgerunner and they wheeled it out the edgerunner is super practical and maneuverable but i admit although i am fond of it it looked like a beat up warthog next to the shiny new packster and also i realized once i started riding it that it squeaks and rattles a bit at higher speeds these are not things that i noticed about it before i rode the packster it is unquestionably true that the abuse we put our bikes through is a big factor in that nonetheless i curse my lost innocence we re not in the market for a new cargo bike and i am increasingly longing to return to the days of solo biking so the question i ask myself when i test ride is more along of the lines of who it would best serve it would serve a family like ours it turns out so i asked myself whether i would want it as a replacement for one of our cargo bikes in the not unlikely actually event that one was stol...