Jakub's Amazing Bucket Bike

Jakub's Amazing bucket bike.
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Jakub Ner has taken on the challenge of creating a bike that is unique in a number of very interesting and innovative ways.

The basic bike is a comfort or hybrid bike.

On top of the straight handle bars an aero bar is mounted.

The saddle is unusual. Unlike most saddles it has almost no nose.

Towards the back of the bike there are two very prominently mounted buckets. As you can easily see from the pictures at the right these buckets are quite large. In addition to being waterproof they also have the ability to carry a significant load.

The bottom left picture also shows the reflective sidewalls of the Schwalbe tires. The bike is currently in commuting mode with Schwalbe studded tires installed. You can actually see the studs by clicking on the top picture on the left.

Yet another feature on this bike is the sidewall generator and two lights mounted just above the front wheel.

As you can from the picture at the left Jakub has mounted the buckets using a milk crate, webbing straps and some nylon zip ties.

Jakub's innovative bucket mounting system.
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This system has now been in service for over a month of daily commuting back and forth to work. Although it looks somewhat different then your typical bike it works extremely well for him.

I spent some time riding Jakub's bike one night. At the time it was heavily loaded. The bike handled fine and in truth the hardest thing to get used to was the unusual saddle.

Jakub intends to take this bicycle on a loaded tour next summer. In order to do so he will likely replace the current suspension fork at the front of the bike with an unsuspended fork and attach two more buckets.

I look forward to hearing more about his touring adventure after he completes it.

Jakub Ner

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