I'd still be interested in what you would do to lighten it up, given my limitations.
The thing with the cargo is that very occasionally I run into the chance to get 5-10 40lb bags of dog food for next to nothing for various reasons (someone's dog wouldn't eat it (or died) so they're giving it away, clearance because it's about to expire, discontinued products, etc.), and it's usually critical to be able to carry it all in one load, or miss out on some of it. If it's at my work, I can buy all of it, hold it in the warehouse, and just come back for it in several loads, but at other places it's unlikely I'll be able to do that.
I also sometimes run into various junk items on Freecycle and thru friends that if I could haul them, I could get them for free...while I'm already out picking something else up, the person I'm picking up from says "oh, BTW, I've got X that you could probably use--do you want ot take it with you, too?". Well, if I didn't plan on that, I probably won't have room to take it...so being able to carry it on the bike itself would be really good.
I'm hoping to make the entire cargo rack detachable, bolt-on, with a lighter aluminum rack made of a couple of folding cots for the "commuter" cargo rack that can carry all my normal loads to bolt on in it's place.
But that wheel-breaking problem happens even with no loads sometimes, when I run into potholes I can't avoid because of traffic conditions. Rare, but it usually takes out several spokes at a time, and damages the rim, when it does happen. So the dirtbike wheel I know will not havea problem with that.
The thing with the cargo is that very occasionally I run into the chance to get 5-10 40lb bags of dog food for next to nothing for various reasons (someone's dog wouldn't eat it (or died) so they're giving it away, clearance because it's about to expire, discontinued products, etc.), and it's usually critical to be able to carry it all in one load, or miss out on some of it. If it's at my work, I can buy all of it, hold it in the warehouse, and just come back for it in several loads, but at other places it's unlikely I'll be able to do that.
I also sometimes run into various junk items on Freecycle and thru friends that if I could haul them, I could get them for free...while I'm already out picking something else up, the person I'm picking up from says "oh, BTW, I've got X that you could probably use--do you want ot take it with you, too?". Well, if I didn't plan on that, I probably won't have room to take it...so being able to carry it on the bike itself would be really good.
I'm hoping to make the entire cargo rack detachable, bolt-on, with a lighter aluminum rack made of a couple of folding cots for the "commuter" cargo rack that can carry all my normal loads to bolt on in it's place.
But that wheel-breaking problem happens even with no loads sometimes, when I run into potholes I can't avoid because of traffic conditions. Rare, but it usually takes out several spokes at a time, and damages the rim, when it does happen. So the dirtbike wheel I know will not havea problem with that.