Dutch Cargo Bikes Coming to Canada
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto on 05. 3.07
Warren covered Bakfiets, big Dutch cargo bikes, and noted that you can get them in the US. Now we learn that we will be able to puchase these "zero emission SUVs" in Canada too! according to Bike Toronto, An Amsterdam couple is bringing one of their cargo bikes over to Canada to demonstrate it here in Toronto for the month of May, with hopes of importing a line of cargo bikes here for sale in the near future. This is an initiative of Anandamayii Czerwinski (above on her bike in Amsterdam and look, helmets!) of the Netherlands and her Candian partner Michael Lorincz who have been users of these cargo bikes in the Netherlands and now see an opportunity to bring them to Canada. We wish them the best of luck! ::Bike Toronto
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Great news. Now all we need is somewhere to use them...
Here's another US source for Bakfiets:
http://clevercycles.com/
Down here in Mexico transport bikes have been used for long time now, remember the "elotes", esqueleto ate in Nacho libre, well traditionally those are broiled and commercialized in the streets on cargo bikes.
(pic of mexican transport bike found in http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.duermevela.com/wp-content/images/elotes.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.duermevela.com/%3Fm%3D200610&h=242&w=350&sz=54&hl=es&start=10&um=1&tbnid=l9AhdVSmAGfhZM:&tbnh=83&tbnw=120&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dhay%2Belotes%26svnum%3D10%26um%3D1%26hl%3Des%26rls%3DRNFA,RNFA:1970--2,RNFA:en%26sa%3DN)
I think there´s a lot of green news in Mexico not covered in treehugger
Greetings from Monterrey, Mexico.
er isn't this a Trishaw - used here in the East for ages?