I own several bike trailers, built a few cargo trailers myself, and ride with them a few times a week, so I’m going to chime in with some thoughts after looking at their Vimeo page, which inexplicably has more information than their website.

The Convoy appears to be a standard bike rack built atop an electric unicycle. I say this to illustrate that it’s offering maybe 30% more carrying space than you could reasonably get with a rack over the rear wheel of the bike.

The most striking thing to me is the use of a 14" wheel, yet the cargo area is the same height as a rack on the bike. If it was a bit longer, the centre of gravity could be lowered quite a bit. Though the compact nature could be useful to people with tight space limitations, I can’t help thinking a long tail bike would be more versatile.

12kg weight for 50kg of cargo capacity isn’t too bad, though my most used cargo trailer weighs 22.5kg with about ten fold the carrying capacity. It’s much longer though, bit over five feet. Storing something this long isn’t problematic for me though - my next one may be longer.

For a trailer that attaches to the axel, I like the connection design they’ve used (similar to the Burley Coho XC) and the tensioner being simple and effective for applying pressure on the powered wheel. It is also a stylish addition to a bike, which can be important.

The self steering aspect is quite interesting to me, though I’m not really sure it is needed for something with one wheel. The wheel does need to steer, given the trailer does not have any articulation from the bike, but why it has active steering is something I don’t understand. It’d be interesting to know if they tried a passive steer solution that didn’t work since the wheel is so close to the bike or something like that.

Unfortunately I have little confidence there is a niche for a product like this as I believe the dentists are buying Urban Arrows.

Based solely on your comment, I’m looking forward to watching a scene where Christian Bale goes around Wall Street collecting mugs in The Big Short 2: Polymer Boogaloo.

Thank you. I did think about that also.

‘Volunteers’ did the counting, but surely they should have known or been informed that a quorum of votes equal to x% of the community are required for the vote to be valid. If the count doesn’t meet or exceed that value, discard the ballots.

Or even why was the vote permitted to take place in less than the required notification period? I presume the answer to these questions is either incompetence or bravado on the part of the board members taking their position for granted.

I find it unlikely that if the vote had went the other way, the board would have had the integrity to raise the same objections.

To play devil’s advocate for a moment, having a sufficient vote notification period is important.

Though if that were the board’s true concern, they surely would have announced intention to notify the community alongside their statement cancelling the vote for this reason, which hasn’t happened insofar as I can tell.

I think that if half of the community shows up with less than a day’s notice to make themselves heard, that’s probably representative enough for how the community feels about these board members.

I found an update about the vote to remove the three board members.

Homeowners voted 190 to 20 in favour of removal, however the board cancelled the vote claiming there wasn’t a 24 hour notice given to the community and subsequently that 210 votes might not qualify a quorum of more than a thousand homes.

Not for nothing, but the headline of the article is talking about time spent golfing, and so is neon_nova’s comment.

The thing the President did isn’t the problem, or really even the frequency. The problem is the cost to the taxpayer.

‘20,000 American’s pay for President’s golf habit’ would be a better title.