Equipping the WorkCycles Fr8 family bike with a long rear rack means that it can accommodate up to three children, or two children and a set of panniers. If you need to carry more stuff, just add a city front carrier and essentially double the amount of cargo you can carry – the Fr8 has a total load capacity of 250kg, so you don’t exactly have to worry about overloading it! Comfortably carrying 3 children + cargo is a pretty incredible feat for a bike with the same overall length as your average hybrid, road bike, or mountain bike, and this should give you an idea of why we venerate the Fr8 so much at Flying Dutchman.
One particularly nifty WorkCycles feature is the ingenious ‘Escape Hatch’, which make it easy to replace things like the rear tyre, inner tube, or rollerbrake without opening the chaincase or having to adjusting any of the Fr8’s more fiddly parts. Moreover, the enclosed gears, brakes, and drivetrain keep all of the bike’s more sensitive components totally protected from the weather, meaning that you can more or less forget about maintenance and just enjoy years of reliable service.
Short of going the whole hog and getting a bakfiets, the WorkCycles Fr8 is pretty much as good as it gets in the world of family bikes. From the rust protected 4130 chromoly frame, to the specially made wheels and super fat tyres, this bike is certifiably bomb-proof. In our experience, there really is nothing even close to as tough as the WorkCycles Fr8 family bike, and nothing that handles heavy loads quite so confidently.
The Fr8 is one of our most versatile bikes, and more information about its many distinctive features and applications can be found on the WorkCycles blog.