Sell the second car.
Two kids in the front, in a box where you can see them. A week's shop on top. Full suspension on both wheels for Dublin potholes and Cork hills. The Load 5 is the cargo bike that ends the second-car conversation for good.
In a foam-lined box, eye contact maintained, 5-point harness as standard. The bike you can have a conversation on.
A full weekly shop. Two kids and a buggy. A garden centre haul. The Load 5 stops feeling like a bike and starts feeling like a van.
Front and rear. The only cargo bike that absorbs an Irish pothole at 25 km/h with the kids on board. You feel the bike, not the road.
The only cargo bike with full suspension.
Every other front-loader cargo bike on the Irish market gives you one suspension fork at the front and a rigid rear. The Load 5 is the only one engineered with full suspension on both ends — a Suntour Aion air shock at the rear, matched to a Suntour fork at the front. The difference is the difference between riding a city bike and riding a tractor.
It matters because cargo bikes carry weight on uneven ground every day. School run. Recycling run. Garden centre. With two kids and a 60-litre shop on board, full suspension is what stops your bike feeling like a wheelbarrow at 20 km/h. It's why R&M Load owners stay loyal for ten years and don't switch to anything else.
Load 75 vario, or Load 60.
Riese & Müller builds the Load in two wheelbases. The 75 is the family bike. The 60 is the urban delivery bike. Almost every Irish family buys the 75; almost every business buys the 60.
Two kids in the box, picnic on top. Enviolo continuously-variable hub, Gates belt drive, full suspension, Bosch CX. The one most Irish families buy.
Tighter wheelbase. Same drivetrain. Easier to park, easier to manoeuvre, slightly smaller box. The build for last-mile delivery and tighter urban routes.
Same engineering, two wheelbases.
Optional: child seats, rain canopy, DualBattery, RX Chip for GPS & motion alarm, flatbed for non-child use. We spec the bike to your routes during the test ride.
About €120 a month, for 12 months.
Cycle to Work is a 12-month salary sacrifice — so it’s the repayment scheme. €3,000 of the bike comes off your gross salary over the year. At higher-rate tax, that’s about €120 from your take-home each month for the CtW portion. The balance is paid outright on collection.
Load 75 vario. Pay in full. Full suspension, Bosch CX, belt drive. R&M warranty + lifetime GreenAer workshop.
From your take-home, over 12 months. Saves about €1,560 in tax on the cargo cap. CtW portion fully paid in a year — balance (~€6,750) paid outright on collection.
See your exact saving in the calculator →A second family car costs an Irish household €4,218 a year on AA Ireland numbers. A Load 5 costs about €50. Want to spread the balance over a longer period instead of paying outright? Humm finance available — ask us. Final price depends on configuration.
Why people don't buy this online.
A €9,750 cargo bike that arrives in a box and never gets fitted is not a €9,750 cargo bike. Four reasons our customers walk in instead of clicking checkout.
Direct-to-consumer cargo bikes arrive in a crate. Ours arrive after you've ridden one with your kids strapped into the box, on the route you'd actually use.
Saddle, bars, brake reach, child seats. Set up in 5 minutes by someone who's spent years on a Load themselves.
Authorised by Riese & Müller. Bosch certified. Year one service included. Loaner cargo bike if yours needs longer.
Jack in Sandyford, Alan in Mullingar, Robbie in Cork. Sells you the bike, services it, picks up the phone three years later.
If the Load is too much bike, these usually fit.
The two bikes our Load customers often consider before deciding the Load is the right answer.
Strap the kids in. Then ride it.
We'll have a Load 5 sized, the rain canopy on if it's wet, and the kids' seats fitted before you arrive. Bring the family. Ride a real route. 30 minutes is enough.
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