Cargo Bike Picnic Adelaide - April 22nd 2012

Hi All

For anyone interested - the Adelaide cargo bike fans are having a community picnic next weekend to share their machines and discuss doing more with bikes for everyday transport. It is amazing how a cargo bike can change the way you think and feel about transport - allowing kids to be taken to school, family shopping to be done, camping trips and general urban load carrying duties that far exceed the capacity of a normal bike or bicycle trailer.

http://www.adelaidecyclists.com/events/cargo-bike-picnic-adelaide

For those of you new to cargo bikes they come in all different shapes and sizes. There are 'long tail', long wheel based machines such as Xtracycle, Kona Ute, Yuba andSurly Big Dummy - through to box bikes both of the two wheel and tricycle variety such as the Dutch Bike and Christiania

I will be there with both a box bike and an customized Xtracycle - the nice thing about the Xtracycle is that it allows you to turn an old MTB into a dedicated load hauling machine at minimal cost (a great product!)

Tags: big dummy, box bike, cargo bike, kona, xtracycle, yuba

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Miller on April 13, 2012 at 9:10

Family shop and 2 x 8 kg bags of dog food on the Xtracycle!

Permalink Reply by Gus K on April 13, 2012 at 10:33

I am looking forward to Dutching it up for the day and having a go on a box bike. It's really smart of bike distributors to let people have a come and try day at the grass roots community level.

Permalink Reply by Andrew Dickson on April 13, 2012 at 10:56

I'll be there with my Yuba Mundo, and with a Chariot child trailer. 

Fingers crossed for nice weather! 

Permalink Reply by Tammy on April 13, 2012 at 21:43

I will be there with my christiania , cant wait !

Permalink Reply by Andrew Dickson on April 13, 2012 at 21:54
Delighted there will be a Christiania there, thanks Tammy.
Permalink Reply by Sophia MacRae on April 13, 2012 at 21:48

So I get to ride the box bike!

:-)

with Derek of course

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Miller on April 16, 2012 at 10:08

So far we are expecting a Yuba with electric motor, Xtracycles, a box bike, a Christiania, hopefully a Dutch box bike, a Bullet and Surly Big Dummy.....

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Miller on April 16, 2012 at 10:15

Xtracycle hauling cardboard for the floor of the bike workshop in Plympton!

Permalink Reply by Clive Palfrey on April 18, 2012 at 19:46

Oooh, hope you didn't get any cross winds.

Permalink Reply by Jeremy Miller on April 16, 2012 at 10:23

This bike is available to hire on the day and Bike SA also have a cargo bike that they might be willing to loan out (if you asked them nicely) :-)

Permalink Reply by heather on April 17, 2012 at 12:03

Nice to know that the ACC cargo bike is now available. Purchased at my request but a delay in making it available. (insurance?)

Permalink Reply by Andrew Dickson on April 17, 2012 at 12:21

We need someone to pick this cargo bike up from the South West Community Centre (171 Sturt Road) in the city on Sunday morning, and return it on Monday morning. Any volunteers? It'd be great to get that bike along. 

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