Velomobiles, Quadracycles, Or Bike Cars
Cruising through Wikipedia, I landed on the Human-Powered Transport page, and started seeing some cool pics:
[Image: Wikipedia / Ekimebam]
[Image: Wikipedia / Liftarn]
Some Toronto artists put together a nice bike car - the cops didn’t like it too much.
I’d like to start seeing more of these things around town — maybe starting with the different bike rental companies. At a minimum, they might serve to expand our imaginations about what is possible. We need more pedicabs, real bike infrastructure so pedicabs don’t have to run pedestrians over on the Embarcadero, etc.
I especially want to see more cargo bikes being used in American’s 2nd Densest City — good-looking cargo bikes like this, from La Petite Reine (English translation):
Hat tip, Springwise.
p.s. The New Amerstdam Project - the bike delivery business out of Boston/Cambridge - has changed its name to MetroPed - they’ve got a blog.
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January 30th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Thanks Peter for offering visibility to La Petite Reine and its famous Cargo bike called cargocycles®. A new website, featuring an english version to it will soon be online (end of February).
By the number of inquiries I receive from all over the world, I believe there’s a strong need for such vehicles. In Europe, you can see them in Paris, Geneva (Switzerland), Bordeaux, Rouen, Dijon and soon in London (http://tinyurl.com/67×3p6).
If ever you know someone interested to import our cargocycles® to SFO and other major cities in the USA, please refer them to me. Thanks
Xavier Mazingue
La Petite Reine
xavier.mazingue@lapetitereine.com