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Ride reports, product news and school-run wisdom from the Tribe crew: rail trails, zoo trips, beach runs and the odd serious hill test.

LATEST STORY · 12 October 2026

What is a longtail cargo bike, and who is it for?

A longtail is a bike with a stretched back end that carries one or two kids behind you. How it rides, what it carries and how it compares with a box bike.

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29 September 2026

The Tribe Original MY27: the M510 motor, Deore gears and a bigger battery

The Tribe Original MY27 gets the Bafang M510 (110Nm), Shimano Deore 10-speed gears and a 576Wh battery. $5,990, on pre-order now and shipping from December.

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28 September 2026

Cargo bike versus a second car

Most people asking have already done the sum and want it checked. Here is the working, including the part that does not favour us.

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21 September 2026

Cargo bike or bike trailer?

A trailer costs a fraction of a cargo bike, and a lot of the time it’s the right answer. We sell cargo bikes, not trailers, so here’s when each one makes sense.

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14 September 2026

Are cargo bikes worth it?

It’s a lot of money for a bike. Who should buy one, who shouldn’t, and how much you’ll get back when the kids outgrow it.

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Thousand Heritage 2.0 Helmet — Carbon Black

9 September 2026

Introducing Thousand: helmets you’ll want to wear

We’re bringing in Thousand helmets: the Heritage 2.0 for grown-ups and the Jr. range for the passengers, with a lifetime replacement guarantee and 20% off with a bike until the end of spring.

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Two large dogs, a black labradoodle and a yellow Labrador, sitting in the box of a Tribe Original electric cargo trike

7 September 2026

Choosing a cargo bike for your dog

Three Goldies in a box or a terrier up front. What makes a cargo bike work for dogs, how they get in, and the gear worth having for each size.

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Ask someone who rides one

Every story here is somebody's actual week: the school run, the hills, the shopping. If you want to ask about yours, Tribe locals are real owners rather than salespeople, and they will tell you straight. Your question goes to their phone, and neither of you sees the other's number.

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31 August 2026

The redesigned Crew Cab now has a gate that opens

The redesigned Evamos Crew Cab has two bar positions and a gate that opens, so bigger kids can get on and off without ducking underneath.

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27 August 2026

Spring is cargo bike season

Spring is when the cargo bike earns its keep: school runs in daylight, first beach trips, market hauls and magpie season. How our family shakes off winter, and how to get your bike ready.

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24 August 2026

The Evamos now has 25% more battery, for the same price

The Tribe Evamos Longtail now ships with a 468Wh battery, up from 375Wh, at the same $3,990. Up to 50km on a charge, tested to EN50604.

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22 August 2026

Can you fit three kids on an Evamos?

The Evamos is happiest with one or two kids up back, but three fits when the setup is right. Pad maths, weight limits, loading order and the tips we give families who ask.

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19 August 2026

What is a cargo trike, and is one right for your family?

Three wheels, a big box and room for up to four kids. What a cargo trike is, when it beats a two wheeler, and when it doesn’t.

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13 August 2026

Watts don’t measure power: what Australia’s 250W e-bike rules really mean

There’s a number on the side of every legal e-bike in Australia, and it’s doing far more work than most people realise. 250 watts. To be a legal bicycle rather than a motorbike, a pedal assisted e-bike needs a motor rated at 250 watts of continuous power, with assistance stopping at 25 km/h. That’s been …

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4 August 2026

Our new website is live, and the prices haven’t changed

We’ve rebuilt the Tribe website from the ground up. The bikes, the people and the prices are the same, but pretty much everything around them has changed. The old site did us proud for years, but it had got heavy, with pages that were slow to load, a phone version that was never as good …

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29 July 2026

We have doubled our warranty to 24 months

Every Tribe bike now comes with a 24 month warranty covering the bike, the electronics and the non-consumable parts. It used to be 12. If you already own a Tribe then it applies to you too, and there’s nothing you need to do about it. You don’t have to register anything or send us an …

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26 July 2026

Queensland e-bike laws: every Tribe Bike complies

Queensland’s new e-bike rules target high powered machines. Every Tribe Bike is a 250W, 25km/h assisted pedal cycle tested to EN 15194, so nothing changes for you.

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21 June 2026

Ricky Rickshaw: An Affordable Trishaw for Cycling Without Age

The Ricky Rickshaw is an approved trishaw for Cycling Without Age Australia, co-designed with a Perth chapter and priced far below the $20,000 alternatives so more communities can ride.

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24 March 2026

Fuel prices went up. Your cargo bike doesn’t care.

The fuel surcharge is here, and it probably isn’t going away. What if the price of fuel stopped being your problem?

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12 August 2025

The all new Tribe Evamos: More power, same low price

What do you get when you take Australia’s most popular and best value longtail cargo bike, add a new and improved motor, gearset and a whole heap of other features, all for the same price? You get Australia’s best value longtail cargo bike… by a long way! The all new Tribe Evamos is now available, …

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7 October 2024

Why you should buy an electric cargo bike for your family

When we started Tribe Bikes, cargo bikes and even e-bikes were a novelty. Double takes were common when someone would see a bike loaded with kids, and it was sure to spark up conversation at the local park. However, the pandemic changed everything. As families looked to get the most out of their local area, …

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24 September 2024

Ricky Rickshaw v2.0 now available in 1 or 2 adult designs!

Tribe Bikes was launched based on our own needs, to better move our young families around and have fun in the process. Little did we realise when we launched, the diverse range of uses our bikes would have across Australia! It soon became clear that cargo bikes aren’t just great for getting kids out and …

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14 September 2024

Miles reviews the Tribe Evamos Longtail

There’s nothing like receiving honest feedback from customers about your product, but when they write a 2,000 word blog about their experience with their Tribe Evamos after a whopping 2,700 km of riding, well that’s something extra special. Check out Miles’ review below. Read the review

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16 March 2024

How a car rack allows you to take your Tribe Evamos or Raha on holiday adventures

It’s no secret that a cargo bike is a great way to leave the car at home when running local errands. With health benefits, environmental benefits and fun benefits, you’ll find you’ll leave the car home more often then not, and maybe even sell that second car that is used exclusively for running errands. However, …

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28 February 2024

How the Tribe Evamos and Raha geometry sets them apart

When it comes to cargo bikes, geometry is everything! You’re carrying a heavy load, get the weight distribution wrong and you’ll have trouble keeping your bike upright! When we developed the Tribe Evamos, this was front and centre in our thinking. Starting from wooden prototypes in the backyard to specialist bike engineer drawings, prototype bikes …

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4 January 2024

The Tribe Raha Utility Bike: Power & Fun in a small package!

18 months since the launch of the Tribe Evamos, we’ve been overwhelmed at its success & the positive feedback we receive from our Evamos customers. It’s practical, powerful and reliable, all in an affordable package! What if you don’t need to carry two kids now? Your oldest is on their own bike, your partner is …

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21 September 2023

Where can a cargo bike take you in 15 mins? Let Traveltime show you!

There’s lots to love about travelling by cargo bike. The fresh air, the breeze in your hair, the fact that kids love it! There all valid reasons to ditch the car and get around by bike. But for us the one thing that gets us on our bike more often than not is the convenience! …

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16 July 2023

Exploring Byron Bay and the Northern Rivers Rail Trail on the Tribe Evamos

We recently took a little school holiday adventure to Byron Bay. With a suitable bike rack attached to our caravan, we packed the Tribe Evamos Longtail, to make the most of the Northern Rivers mild winter weather and spend as much time out and about on bikes as possible. Our location of choice was Reflections …

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13 June 2023

Exploring Taronga Western Plains Zoo on the Tribe Evamos

I’ll be honest, when we visited Taronga Western Plains Zoo last year with our Tribe Original Cargo Bikes, we expected it to be a once off. We loved it, but after a 5 hour drive and winter weather, the adults thought maybe a 2023 trip up the coast to warmer weather might be on the …

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29 April 2023

Tribe Bikes Locals Platform Launched – Chat to a REAL Tribe Bike owner!

Update, September 2026: Tribe Locals is back, on our own platform. The owners below are real Tribe Bikes riders who have put their hand up to answer questions, and you can find your nearest one on the map at locals.tribebikes.com.au. The original 2023 announcement follows. We know for most families the decision to spend thousands …

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19 April 2023

A book for kids & kids at heart – Curious Casey’s Cargo Bike Caper

Join Casey, a curious and courageous kid who loves to explore their local neighbourhood on their trusty cargo bike! When the beloved golden egg goes missing from the park, Casey transforms into detective Casey and sets out to solve the mystery. Written by Tribe Bikes co-founder, Steve Bull, Curious Casey’s Cargo Bike Caper is a …

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17 January 2023

GreenRoad Loans now available – Why rent when you can buy for less!

We’re excited to announce our partnership with Transport Mutual Credit Union (TMCU), supporting their innovative Green Road Loan, designed to help finance environmentally sustainable forms of transport, including E-Bikes! The Greenroad features include no ongoing fees, a low variable interest rate and the ability to make extra repayments at any time. Plus, purchase your bike …

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17 January 2023

Carrying your Surfboard on the Tribe Evamos Longtail cargo bike

Are you a surfer looking for a way to get your kids and your surfboard to the beach? Don’t worry, Steve is too, and this summer he’s been experimenting with ways to get you, your board and optionally your kids to the beach for summer time fun! The below brief video shows a couple of …

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14 September 2022

Tribe Evamos Longtail Bike Available Now

Since we announced the launch of our Tribe Evamos Longtail bike a few weeks back, the response has been overwhelming! It seems plenty of people are looking for a high quality and affordable longtail bike. Well the bikes have arrived and we’ve been putting them through their paces. We love them, the kids love them …

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12 August 2022

Commercial Cargo Box – “The Triberoo” now available

Over the last few years we’ve seen first hand how cargo bikes can improve the lives of families and dog owners, with the added benefit of being a much more environmentally friendly solution! Over that time we’ve had tons of enquiries from people looking to use a bike to do other stuff with… stuff like …

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31 July 2022

Tribe Evamos Longtail Bike Coming Soon!

UPDATE: The Tribe Evamos is now available! Learn more We love our Tribe Original 3 wheel cargo bikes, we really love them and so do thousands of Australian families, but we know they’re not for everyone. If storage is at a premium it can be hard to find somewhere to store your bike and they’re …

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1 June 2022

Understanding e-bike battery capacity

We’ve previously covered how to understand an e-bike’s power, where the preferred method of calculation is to use torque. However to get power, there’s a critical piece of the puzzle still to solve, that being the battery that supplies the power. Today we take a brief look at how to understand the battery capacity of …

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12 May 2022

Our Cargo Bike Adventure at Taronga Western Plains Zoo Dubbo

We recently loaded up the Tribe Bikes onto a trailer and went for a weekend adventure out to Taronga Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo, NSW. What a weekend! We were blessed with perfect weather and a zoo that is perfectly setup for cargo bikes. It’s reasonably flat, with nice open bike paths to get up …

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24 February 2022

How Cargo Bikes can revolutionise the school run

There’s no doubt about it, cargo bikes have revolutionised family outings for our family. On weekends the car is generally left at home, and a boring old outing to the park often turns into a half day family adventure of new routes and experiences. However, with a new routine in 2022: a child starting school, …

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20 February 2022

What’s the difference between power and torque on an e-bike?

When one ventures into the world of e-bikes, they venture into a world of terminology that is foreign to most. Watts, torque, amps, volts, amp hours, watt hours, etc. For someone who knows that their house runs on 240 volts and car runs on 12 volts and not much more, it can be daunting. Today …

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19 January 2022

A little harbour and beachside afternoon adventure

Sometimes those little unplanned adventures are the best type. Sure, many of life’s great memories include loads of planning: weddings, the birth of a child, moving into a new house, etc. But equally ingrained in memories may be that random night out you had with some people you met in a bar in Shibuya, that …

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3 December 2021

Kidspot reviews the 2022 Tribe Bike

We were excited when Kidspot, Australia’s largest family focused website recently approached us to review the 2022 Tribe Bike. By all accounts they had a blast, with Jenna, the journalist leaving us with the following quote: For young, active families who love to get out and about, a Tribe bike might just be exactly what …

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8 November 2021

The Tribe Original Colour Range

The new Tribe Original Bike retains the signature 4 colour options of the previous model. With a high quality Marine Plywood and matt polyurethane finish, this year’s models colours really pop. Below we explore the colour range. Oak Our most popular colour in the previous model, we expect Oak to retain its status as the …

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18 October 2021

New model Tribe Bike available now. Learn more!

When we launched Tribe Bikes, we did so with the aim of providing Australia’s best value cargo bike. Since then we’ve become the cargo bike of choice for hundreds of Australian Families, saving thousands of car trips and making the mundane fun! Not to rest on our laurels, today we’re excited to be launching our …

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7 September 2021

Choosing a kid’s seat for your bike

When you’re child has graduated from that ‘wrap in cotton wool‘ stage to those pre toddler ‘want to explore the world‘ stage there’s no better way to show them the world than by bike! This brings a challenge for many new parents, how to carry your child by bike? Like buying your first pram, options …

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24 August 2021

Understanding Australia’s e-bike laws

When does an e-bike become a motorbike? Well in Australia the laws are quite clear, although unlike mandatory helmet laws, are not well understood. Below we identify the rules that govern e-bikes in Australia. Why the need for e-bike laws? When motor vehicles were powered by engines and bikes were powered by pedal power, it …

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23 August 2021

Hydraulic Disc Brake upgrade now available on all bikes

We’re now offering Hydraulic disk brake upgrades on the Tribe Original Electric Assist. Simply select this option when configuring your Tribe Bike. What are hydraulic disc brakes? Hydraulic disc brakes use hydraulic fluid (mineral oil) to enact the brake caliper. This is just like what your car likely has. By using oil, there is no …

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6 August 2021

Introducing Tribe Electric Plus – More power to go up, more stopping to go down!

Update 15/11/2021 – The 2022 Tribe Original Electric Plus is now available, offering even more power and a bunch of other features. Learn more here. Since launching the Tribe Original, we’ve had numerous questions about it’s pulling power up hills from people who live in hilly areas (hello Sydney!). Previously, we’ve done a hill test …

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18 May 2021

Cargo Bike Toddler Seats now Available

One of our most asked questions is ‘from what age can children ride in a cargo bike’. This is a question that does not have a black and white response as there are many factors at play. In European countries where cargo biking is extremely popular, babies are carried home from hospital in a cargo …

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19 February 2021

Choosing the right kid’s bike. A parent’s perspective

I love bikes! You generally don’t start a bike company if you don’t! I also love getting my kids out and about on bikes. It’s almost a rite of passage in Australia for kids to spend their youth getting around by bike in their suburbs or at a caravan park over the christmas holidays. I …

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6 February 2021

Sun Shades now Available

The last few months have been huge at Tribe Bikes HQ. Summer saw huge demand for our bikes and we’ve been working around the clock to fulfil our customer orders! As the weather heated up we started getting many requests from our customers to provide a way to keep kids (and dogs) cool and out of …

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14 January 2021

Launching the Tribe Bikes Front Door

We continue to be amazed at the varied uses our customers have been finding for our bikes. Originally launched as a bike to cart kids, we’ve had customers buy bikes to transport dogs, laundry, newspapers, elderly adults and special needs big kids. We’re loving the creative uses of these versatile bikes! We’re excited to launch an …

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29 October 2020

Tribe Bikes featured on Newy with Kids blog

It was great to chat to the Newy With Kids blog recently about how Cargo Biking has changed our lives, and some of our favourite rides around our home town of Newcastle. Check out the full story here. [elementor-template id=”2024″]

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23 August 2020

How safe is cargo biking with kids?

It’s a question we’ve been asked plenty of times now, so it deserves a proper answer. How safe is it really to cargo bike with kids? It’s a reasonable thing to ask. When you load your precious cargo into something with no car seats, no airbags and no crumple zones you can feel exposed, particularly …

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3 August 2020

Our afternoon video adventure

We had a day recently where after raining all afternoon, the weather finally cleared up for an afternoon adventure. We had 4 kids with energy to burn, so we got them to the beach and the park and had some fun rides in between. See a short clip of our adventure below. https://youtu.be/IwgJX2zRWBQ[elementor-template id=”2024″]

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3 August 2020

Tribe Bikes Featured on NBN News

We had a blast filming a story with Newcastle’s NBN News recently. NBN were excited about what Tribe Bikes are offering to families to get them out and about in a healthy and environmentally friendly way. They asked us if we’d like to do a story on Tribe Bikes and of course we accepted the …

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17 June 2020

Testing Tribe’s Electric Assist on a Serious Hill

Since getting our Tribe Bikes we’ve had plenty of questions about the electric assist. In a previous post we covered how far the electric assist can get you. One of the other questions is how bigger/steeper hills can it get you up. No better way to answer that than give it a test, so we …

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2 June 2020

Do you need electric assist on your Tribe Bike?

It’s a question we’re often asked, and with a significant difference in price points, a reasonable one to ask. Do you really need electric assist on your Tribe Bike? We’ll do our best at answering the question below. How does electric assist work? Firstly, a quick explanation on Tribe’s electric assist. Depending on your experience …

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1 June 2020

Confessions of a ‘cyclist’, now cargo biking convert

Steve (above right) is one of the co-founders of Tribe Bikes. This is his account of how he was converted from a ‘cyclist’ to a cargo bike rider. One day I got a phone call from Nick, it went something along the lines of this: “Hey mate, you know how much of a pain in …

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1 June 2020

2 wheel vs 3 wheel cargo bikes: which one suits your family

If you’ve started looking at cargo bikes you’ll have noticed they aren’t all the same shape. Three wheels, two wheels, a box on the front, a long rack out the back. It’s a bit like choosing between a road bike and a mountain bike: the right answer depends on what you’re actually going to do …

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22 May 2020

How far does an electric assist Tribe Bike really get you?

One of the first questions we get asked about our Electric Tribe Bikes is ‘how long does the battery last?‘. It’s a difficult one to answer, as it really depends on how hilly your ride is, how much stop/start you are doing and how much you are relying on the electric assist. We hate it …

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22 May 2020

Why we’re cargo biking converts

When we had our first child in 2016, life certainly changed for the better, but our lifestyle didn’t change too much. We’d find time to get out and about. We bought a child carrying hiking backpack and did some great hiking, we travelled internationally with a 6 month old, and we even found babies sleep …

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