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An e-bike for Deutsche Post by Luke Guttery

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By James Thomas – March 4, 2013

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Vincent says

I think that Luke is right, Grace belongs now to MIFA, and their bike factory shouldn’t have anything comparable, at least in Europe (I let Luke responsable for his saying for the rest of the world!). The smart ebike also comes out there, Daimler had probably good reasons to choose them.
This would be great to see such finest design for the postal service. The hard specification makes them interesting products. I’m looking forward also!

March 4, 2013, 2:49 pm Reply
Impossibly Stupid says

One noticeable difference between the concepts and the actual bikes seems to be having front “panniers” that are attached to the frame instead of the fork. Makes me wonder how long it took before they listened to someone who has actually tried to ride with an overloaded front wheel!

I do like the containerization approach. Allows for very flexible management of the sorting/delivery of the letters. The logistics behind their efforts are probably as interesting as the bikes themselves.

March 4, 2013, 6:55 pm Reply
padd says

I used one of the older postbikes for a while: https://www.bvdp.de/uploads/pics/080429_Fahrrad_DPAG.JPG
The stand attached to the front rack worked amazingly well. Because it rotated up and backwards you could kick it down with your feet before the bike stopped. Why has Luke given up on that concept?

March 5, 2013, 3:31 am Reply
Luke says

Hi there, many thanks for your comments on my work.
Padd, we took a lot of inspiration from the old work horse that you used to use . I am afraid to say I did nto have much to do with the kick stand. By this point it was fully in the hands of the Engineers at Grace. However I can vouch that the kick stand on the prototypes is very effective and there has been no complaintes from the postal service.

Luke

March 6, 2013, 2:13 pm Reply
Iain says

Wow, that is a fantastic design.

I would love to see Canada Post using this type of system more often. I think the problem they would run into might be the snow, but for a good part of the year this could be used.

I love the design very slick. We haven’t seen a huge increase in the number of electric bikes in Canada yet.

At the moment it is more of a niche. However, I think that over time it will become more prominent.

Thanks for sharing

March 12, 2013, 6:40 am Reply

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