If you have been following my blog about electric cargo bikes for a while, you know that I often make predictions about where the market for these bikes will go. Over time, many of my predictions have come to pass, but usually later or on a smaller scale than I had anticipated. For example, I [...]
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It has been 7 months since I posted my first article mentioning the Trek Transport+. After a very long fall and winter, the bike appears to be available to order. Trek has removed the “available late fall” qualification from their web site, and dealers in my area would be happy to take my order. With [...] An eventful year has passed since my first New Year status report. A lot has happened in my life and the cargo biking scene that would have strained my imagination last January. And a few things didn’t happen that I confidently anticipated. I would be thrilled to repeat last year’s progress in 2011, but I’ll try to [...] Last month I wrote an article describing various internal hub transmissions as alternatives to the derailleur-gear system found on most bikes in the U.S. I was especially intrigued by the updated NuVinci hub, which uses a clever mechanism consisting of rotating balls in a fluid bath. A friend directed me to this blog post, which [...] About five months ago, I wrote an article called Dawn of the (U.S.) cargo bike revolution. At the time, the title seemed like a pretty big leap. I was extrapolating a new market and mode of transportation based on two barely-available cargo bikes with electric motor options. If I was worried I was out on a [...] I worked in the computer industry for three decades, so I am accustomed to the furious pace of innovation associated with that enterprise. Even so, I have been surprised by the pace of development of electric bikes in general. While competition in the electric cargo bike category has been a little less fierce, it’s amazing [...] A few days ago, I was carrying a load of groceries home on my cargo bike. Ahead of me, a serious lycra-clad cyclist was cranking a nice-looking bike up the steady incline. Normally, I try to avoid passing hard-working cyclists on hills out of respect for their efforts. But on this occasion, the gap between [...] Christiania cargo bike There are many ways to haul cargo on bikes – a fact that was demonstrated daily on the streets of Copenhagen during the year we lived there. By far the most popular were Christiania bikes, which were used to haul various daily goods including kids and girlfriends. There were also quite a [...] I’ve focused rather heavily on cargo bike brakes in recent blog posts (like here), so I thought it would be a good idea to round things out with thoughts on other weak links in my cargo bike hardware. After a year of biking in Copenhagen, and another year here in Seattle, the components that have [...] To avoid developing brake monomania, I’m promising myself that this will be my last post (at least for awhile) on the topic of cargo bike brakes. But I noticed something interesting during my emergency braking tests yesterday: my bike had approximately the same stopping distance when carrying 180 pounds of cargo as it did with no [...] |
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