My Solar Electric Cargo Bike

Not quite One Less Car, but close. A bike that makes doing 50 mile long errands easier, and gets some of it's power from the sun.

Thursday, November 27, 2025

The Breeze recumbent cargo bike frame is rolling!

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  The Breeze is now a rolling chassis.  Although it still needs a front trunk with a solar panel lid, a retractable solar canopy, a deflecto...
Monday, September 8, 2025

The Breeze frame is painted, plus a little bike advocacy

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The Breeze single track semi recumbent frame (click to enlarge) Last month I finally finished welding all of the small mounting tabs on The ...
Sunday, December 10, 2023

A flat work table for making cargo bike frames

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Cargo bike frames don't fit very well on a standard bike frame building jig.  I've gotten around this by placing a sheet of plywood ...
Sunday, August 21, 2022

Calibrating a Spoke Tension Gauge and looking at the results

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My spoke tension gauge has helped me get a more even tension for the spokes on each side of a wheel than I was able to achieve by plucking t...
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Sunday, January 30, 2022

The Breeze, the Stratus battery (S1E4)

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Over the years I've used several types of batteries.  My first bikes had huge LiFePO4 bricks with A123 type cells, which could take a lo...
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Karl K
We are starting to build new systems that rely less on fossil fuels. I've lived off grid for 37 years designing and building all sorts of projects before they were widespread in the marketplace, and thought I might add something both useful and fun from my experiences. Please email me with any questions at karl@MySolarElectricCargoBike.com
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