How one
cargo bike company does it all.
Not exact matches
The vehicle accessories
company is now partnering with Toyota to sell their products — vehicle racks,
cargo boxes,
cargo management accessories and mounts for
bikes, skis and boats — in Toyota dealerships throughout the United States.
The French porteur
bike and the Dutch semi-transportfiets bicycle are two similar designs that look and feel (mostly) like riding just about any other
bike, yet can also carry heavy or bulky loads on frame - mounted racks, and new to that mid-sized
cargo bike category is a fresh entry that adds the leverage of an electric drivetrain to create what the
company calls «your new S.U.V. (Super Utility Vehicle).»
Not unless you are Cask Beverage
Company of San Francisco, that is — which has joined the long and illustrious tradition of
cargo bikes (or trikes, really), delivering artisanal beverages to bars and restaurants across the city by tricycle.
Babboe, a Dutch
company, starting making affordable, classically styled
cargo bikes and trikes in 2007.
We covered Taga's carrier bicycle here and here, but it's worth just one more look at the
company's concept of «continuity» - being able to use your
bike through most of the day regardless of what type of
cargo need arises.
The Dutch
company Urban Arrow has been designing and building electric - assist
cargo bikes that have the potential to replace many car trips, thanks to their large hauling capacity on a low - slung bakfiets design, and their ability to carry children or stuff with ease, and even keep everything out of the weather with a rain canopy.
Lloyd wrote about the first prototype back in 2010, and since then, the
company has developed a few variations on the electric
cargo bike theme, including the Family
bike, the Shorty, and the freight - and business - oriented
Cargo.
It's got great components, is built from the ground up to be an electric
bike with a big
cargo capacity, and comes with the
company's standard 10 - year warranty.
The RadWagon, which the
company describes as the «ultimate electric
cargo bike,» is not your brother's
cargo bike, in the sense that it's not a full - on conventional
cargo bike that could pull double - duty hauling massive amounts of materials, but is instead not much bigger than a standard bicycle (80» / 203 cm total length).
Much of the innovation around what a utility bicycle should be is happening not at the level of the Trek's and Bianchi's of this world - those
companies aren't bothering much with what is considered the tiny utility or
cargo bike market.
According to the
company, folding the
bike reduces its overall size by 30 %, so «it packs down small enough to fit in a VW Touran or an urban apartment,» and even when unfolded it can fit into small elevators or other compact spaces that aren't very manageable with a long or wide
cargo bike.
The Sperm
Bike is, like the
company's sperm donations, a Danish product and constructed around the Danish Bullitt
cargo bike from Larry vs Harry.
Now
Bike Friday, the Portland - Eugene - based
company that's become known for its innovative folding
bikes, is getting into the
cargo bike business too.
While it's so far built 70 or so early versions of its Haul - a-Day
cargo bike in its R&D department, the
company is now looking to Kickstarter to fund a major expansion of its production line, aiming to build a whopping 1000 Haul - a-Days in 2015.
Leading bicycle planning and communications consultants at Copenhagenize Design
Company have teamed up with Cyclehoop to create the best
cargo bike parking around.