#cargo bikes

[legionnaireslover]

BC out and about...

Precious cargo perhaps??

And further down in the comments...

Cargo bikes...

Beginning to become very popular for families.

[citymaus]

dog taxi, san francisco. 

[rjzimmerman]

Cargo Bikes Are Faster, More Effective Than Vans for Urban Delivery

A new report compares cargo bike deliveries in London to van deliveries to find bikes were faster and more sustainable.

Excerpt from this story from Treehugger:

I picked up a cargo bike recently—I'll review it in the coming weeks but I can tell you that I did feel somewhat invincible riding it. I’m beginning to understand why Treehugger design editor Lloyd Alter says electric cargo bikes will eat cars.

Any time we make a claim like that, we hear from skeptics who question whether a bike really can compete with the power and supposed "speed" of a fossil-fueled automobile. But what those skeptics fail to take into account is the fact that in urban and even suburban environments, nimbleness and convenience are often more valuable than sheer power or top speed.

That’s certainly what the charity Possible found in their just-released report, "The Promise of Low Carbon Freight." Looking specifically at the potential for cargo bike deliveries in London, the report delivers a powerful case for using bikes for business purposes. Using GPS data, the report compares routes taken by cargo bikes in London with routes that vans would have to take to deliver the same parcels.

Here are some of the key findings:

The bikes were, on average, 1.61 times faster than an equivalent journey by van

They were able to deliver more packages in the same amount of time as their motorized counterparts

In the 98 days of work sampled, the bikes helped save a total of 3,896 kilograms of carbon dioxide and over 5.5 kilograms of nitrogen oxide

Extrapolating these numbers, replacing just 10% of van freight with bikes would save as much as 133,300 metric tons of carbon dioxide and 190.4 thousand kilograms of nitrogen oxide per year.

[lemondeabicyclette]

Jetez-y un œil

Kobenhavn - Babboe

Berlin - Bullitt

Prague - Alza + DHL

Cambridge - Outspoken

Graz - GLS

Strasbourg - Véloptimiste City Changer

Paris - Urban Arrow

San Sebastian - txita

Berlin - Urban-e

[bikedweeb]

(via The Return Of Tokyo Bike MeetUp | Ikuma Otsubo | Flickr)

[rollersinstinct]

People cross a street flooded by heavy monsoon rain in Assam, India from The Guardian’s Best photos of the day.

[citymaus]

“Happy Chinese New Year! No preschool today so we’re off to the beach.”

[citymaus]

bike racing is back. yesterday the capital city of zagreb in croatia held their annual traditional refuse collector’s bicycle race.