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Dutch Car­go Bikes Com­ing to Gov Island

Jul 22, 2010 1:49 am

[cap­tion id=“attachment_3615” align=“aligncenter” width=“366” caption=“I’m on a Fiets­fab­riek Car­go­b­ike”][/​caption] Bike and Roll, in part­ner­ship with Rolling Orange Bikes, a new bike shop in Brook­lyn that favors slow bikes, is rent­ing Fiets­fab­riek Car­go­b­ikes (yes, they’re Dutch, we’re so pre­dictable here). The mod­els for rent are tri­cy­cles with a box in the front big enough to car­ry a small child or a mon­th’s worth of gro­ceries. You may rec­og­nize the con­cept from such recent New York Times arti­cles as ​“Haul­ing Car­go, No Car Nec­es­sary”. The car­go bikes are avail­able for rent at the same rate as tandems and all the reg­u­lar rules apply, so be sure to check Bike and Rol­l’s web­site. FYI — They are not the first or only car­go bikes out here. Every week­end you are like­ly to catch our friends at Earth Mat­ter zip­ping around the Island with buck­ets of com­post in their car­go­b­ike. And who knows? Soon, we could be host­ing the New York City’s first bak­fi­ets race… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cy0UmakZck]