Tag: Cargo

I moved to Oakland and bought a cargo bike. Oakland’s been very walkable and bikeable so far (with a good grocery store, hardware store, coffeehouse, garden center, transit centers, and bike shop all within 10 minute rides). While I’ve been idly looking at and researching cargo bikes for many years (including admiring the range of designs I’d see in Copenhagen, Amsterdam, or the Supermarket Street Sweep), I could never really justify the expense. Now that I’m living somewhere a bit more spread out than SF (and with, for the first time, a yard and room for gardening and woodworking), and with my motorcycle retired (no registration, insurance, gas the past few years), when I saw an Xtracycle Edgerunner for auction at a fund raiser for a good cause, I made an impulsive decision and rode it home that night. ...

A friend’s Yuba el Mundo cargo bike with electrical assist, set up for carrying a kid and large quantities of groceries/cargo. I hitched a ride home sitting on the back rack and it lugged both of us and our groceries stably. Interesting…

Friend’s electric-assist Yuba longtail bike (w/ room for two kid seats). I took it for a few-minute test ride and it was fun.

Cargo bikes with front-basket “kickstands” – in Hong Kong

Bike carrying a pot of hot soup.

Cargo tricycle (photo from my father, in India)

Guy biking with daughter in bakfiets, each holding a cone of frites.

Dual cargo bikes (bakfiets style)

Took a risk, transported a case of wine with the custom pannier and backpack pannier.