Cargo bikes

[elizilla]

Interesting article about cargo bikes. As in bicycles, with pedals. The appeal seems to be similar to the Ural. I find myself tempted to get one. Except that they are pretty darned expensive, and I have never seen one here. Still, how cool.

Comments

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

I saw those around in Amsterdam. You saw people transporting all kinds of crazy stuff on bicycles over there. The winner was the dude transporting a quarter-keg of beer on the front rack of a regular bicycle. (Possibly empty, since it was Sunday morning.) Although it was also not uncommon to see people pile a couple of small children in the "wheelbarrow" on the front (helmets? what are those?).

When I go to Amsterdam again I'll bring you one back. ;-)

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

The other possibility is that you probably know plenty of folks who are skilled at fabbing various things out of bits of tubing, etc. I bet that for a suitable bribe you could probably get someone to build you something, starting with a standard mountain-bike frame, and then construct your own cargo box out of some 1" plywood.

[pi3832.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. Might be useful for me for going to the grocery store.

I have been thinking that I might get one of the obnoxiously huge jogging stroller that everyone is using for their rug rats these days, and hack it up into a cargo pusher. But with something bicycle-based I can go fast enough to use the streets, instead of hogging the sidewalks like all those self-centered stroller-pushers do.

Hell, maybe I should just get a trailer for the DRZ? I mean, a trailer at the DRZ could pull. Nothing I'd want to do on the highway, but maybe just over surface streets to the grocery, Goodwill, and Home Depot.

[schmi.livejournal.com]

Those look cool! You'll be giving rides to all the kids in town. And getting very fit.