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EdgeRunner from Xtracycle
In the mid 90s Ross Evans from Stanford University developed an extension for a mountain bike capable of carrying heavier than usual loads, to be used in a project in Nicaragua called „Bikes Not Bombs“. Three years later he founded Xtracycle Inc. and produced and sold the bicycle extension as a self-assembly kit called: Free Radical Extension.
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Cargo bikes on Parade in Kortrijk
Parade on transport of goods and freight by cycle. The aim is to trigger the use of (cargo) bicycles in and around Kortrijk for logistics purposes, but also to show business start-ups using cargo bicycles for their daily activities.
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Get Britain Cycling
Summary report from the Get Britain Cycling campaign.
>> read more on www.bikehub.co.uk

meeting of 200 cargo bikes in the Netherlands
200 proud owners, producers and designers of cargo bikes will meet on the 7 th of April in Nijmegen in the Netherlands
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Bicycle delivery service in Salzburg (AT)
Customers of the supermarket chain Interspar can now have their shopping delivered to their homes for only 2 Euros. The service that is co-funded by the City and Region of Salzburg and the Ministry of Social Affairs not only brings advantages for the customers but helps to reintegrate young unemployed people into the labour market.
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Lust auf Last? Cargo Bike Fans at Berlin Cycle Fair
Cargo Bike Fans Berlin very proudly present 32 cargo bikes at their Große Lastenradschau mit heißen neuen Modellen, legendären Klassikern und Eigenbauten handmade in Berlin
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Cargo-bike-sharing scheme in Ghent (BE)
Cargo bikes are becoming increasingly popular in Ghent. The city council gives financial support to cargo-bike-sharing projects for neighbourhoods and to citizens who want to purchase an electric cargo bike.
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US looks to Europe to "Fix Secret Cause of Urban Traffic"
Package trucks—those familiar parcel delivery vehicles that double-park on your block—have become an international target of commuter ire.
One of these new strategies, the BentoBox, works by shifting delivery truck activity away from peak driving hours. ....
TNT Express has a program in Brussels, where the courier company delivers about 1300 parcels per week, three-quarters of those deliveries are already made using pedal-assisted electric tricycles....
Read all of this article at www.theatlanticcities.com
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Vienna's Cargo Bike Collective
The cargo bike is an increasingly frequent sight on the streets of Vienna. Independent of fuel and high running costs, it offers an efficient alternative to engine-driven vehicles and can be used with ease by all cyclists.

In 2010, a group of bicycle enthusiasts founded the “Lastenradkollektiv” (“Cargo Bike Collective”) as a self-governing and non-profit association that aims for making the benefits of cargo bikes available to all. This cycling story presents the collective’s way of providing a self-governing method of using cargo bikes in the city.

Read more about Vienna´s Cargo Bike Collective at http://24707.cleverreach.de/c/9801238/9b36c77c185
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A Guide to Cargo Bikes at Mother Earth News
Car-free living is even more possible with the right bicycles designed to haul everything from groceries to children.
In this excerpt from On Bicycles: 50 Ways the New Bike Culture Can Change Your Life (New World Library, 2012), Finley Fagan explains the different kinds of cargo bikes and their benefits.

Read more: http://www.motherearthnews.com/green-transportation/cargo-bikes-ze0z1301zgar.aspx#ixzz2IJtfOYe3
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How do we best tackle greenhouse gas emissions in personal transport?
Cycle Logistics answers for "Clean Transport' presented by Dr. Randy Rzewnicki, Project Manager at ECF at a debate at Euronews and European Voice.
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Cargo bikes are the greenest way to carry shopping – they run on bananas and flapjacks
A new generation of family runabouts looks set to change the face of Britain’s roads next year and no one will be worried about the running costs
>> read more on www.thetimes.co.uk

EPOMM News:professional & private logistics
around 60% of all trips in urban areas are related to the transport of goods (this astonishing number ranges from transports in large commercial lorries to simply transporting daily supplies home). By shifting goods under 500 kilograms to bicycles, cycle logistics will succeed in improving the quality of living in our cities considerably.
>> read more on www.epomm.eu

3icy: the design of the ultimate cargo bike - press article
The cargo bike design of Architect Luca Feletti starts to get attention in the bicycle world. Here a web article about his 3icy with some interesting pictures and schemes.
>> read more on urbancycling.it

3icy: the design of the ultimate cargo bike
Luca Feletti, a newly graduated Architect at the University of Ferrara, elaborated a prototype for an ultimate power-assisted flexy-bike. In the 3icy the front wheel is a removable wheel to leave the place to a cargo box or a taxi seat to transport - depending on your needs - yourself, goods and people. Luca, introduced his idea to AMI staff to collect information about cargo bikes and analyzed documents available on the CycleLogistics Project web site.
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Cycle Logistics hits the South Seas
Outspoken Delivery's Gary Armstrong and CTC's Gavin Wood discuss Cycle Logistics on Radio New Zealand
>> read more on www.radionz.co.nz

Community Cargo bike scheme to launch in Spring 2013
Hereford Pedicabs are set to launch an innovative community cargo bike share scheme. If successful this type of scheme could be in a town or city near you.
>> read more on www.herefordtimes.com

Tel-O-Porter: A publicly shared urban bike trailer
"Tel-O-Porter", A publicly shared urban bike trailer that gives the advantage to shared bikes. An add-on product to Tel Aviv's "Tel-O-Fun bike for rent" program, which can also be easily implemented in other bike share programs around the world. The Tel-O-Porter Can be rented at any rental station across the city and easily hitch to Tel-O-Fun bike or be carried by hand, instead of a grocery cart.
>> read more on www.youtube.com

Cycle Logistics, the courrier on two wheels (Bicilogistica, il corriere su due ruote
Television news about a cyclelogistic company new opening in Brescia, north of Italy
>> read more on www.teletutto.it

BBC's Berlin Bureau to buy bike trailer
Is Berlin the safest city to be a cyclist?
>> read more on www.bbc.co.uk

Wheel you marry me? Europe has crush on cycling
.. and CARGO BIKES, especially sexy ones, like the Spermbullit in Copenhagen.
>> read more on www.chron.com

Cycling is good for the economy (USA)
A new report summarising many U.S. studies on the economic benefits of cycling highlight the large positive impact of cycling on state and local economy.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Ils vous livrent en pédalant !
Hush Rush assure, en vélo, la livraison de petits colis dans toute la capitale - Pauline Deglume - La Dernière Heure 2012
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Bike to Shop: Belgium's Push For More Bicycle Shoppers
A major National-Bike to Shop Campaign is happening in Belgium. The supermarket chain, Delhaize, with some 800 supermarkets in the country, wants to see more people coming to their stores by bike. They are a major international company and have another 2000 shops across 6 countries and 3 continents.
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Cargo Bicycles - The new trend in Europe's cities
The sight of a cargo bicycle is no longer an alien one in most European cities. More and more these vehicles are not only used to transport children. Incleasingly businesses are aware of the advantages and city administrations as well as the media are catching on.
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The Dutch Centre for Bike Theft deploys cargo bikes as bait (The Netherlands)
The Dutch Centre for Bike Theft deploys cargo bikes as bait (The Netherlands)
In addition to the “bait bike” there is now the “cargo bait bike”, designed to combat the increasing theft of this contemporary vehicle.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

“I replace a car” (Germany)
A more eco-friendly logistic is needed – especially in urban areas. This also calls for new logistics structures to improve the distribution efficiency. The German project “Ich ersetze ein Auto” (“I replace a car”) investigates the potential of electrically propelled cargo bicycles to achieve this aim.
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Clean Air Fuel Cell Cargobike (Germany)
Deutsche Telekom is testing 14 fuel-cell powered Cargobikes in Berlin according to reports. This is the first commercial testing of bikes assisted by hydrogen powered fuel cell motors that could lead to large scale commercial use.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Article on CTC website
Cycle Logistics - Moving freight by cargo cycle
>> read more on beta.ctc.org.uk

UPS turned to bicycles during London 2012
Extended bike fleet in use in the capital after the Olympics too, logistics firm says. To handle the increased traffic around the London 2012 Olympic Games, UPS has turned to cycles and walkers to make its deliveries.
>> read more on www.bikebiz.com

A Bicycle Manager per Ferrara: Intervista a Gianni Stefanati_A Bicycle Manager in Ferrara: Gianni Stefanati interview
Amicoinviaggio.it website, "the world watched by the bicycle" interviews Gianni Stefanati, bicycle manager for the City of Ferrara who shortly tell about the history of bicycle policy in Ferrara crossing through the CycleLogistics project ands its goals. In italian.
>> read more on www.amicoinviaggio.it

An idea to pedal out of economic crisis
Two italian ladies created a bike and cargo bike delivery company in Rome.
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Graz goes Copenhagen!
In Denmark and in the Netherlands it is very common to transport smaller goods by bicycle. A “living laboratory” for cargo bicycles has been established in Graz as part of the EU project Cyclelogistics. The aim is to shift some of the goods transport, currently done by motorized vehicles, to cargo bikes.
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Fighting Theft of Cargo Bikes
In addition to the “bait bike” there’s now the “cargo bait bike”, meant to combat the increasing theft of this contemporary vehicle in the Netherlands.
>> read more on www.fietsberaad.nl

FNAC Cargo Bikes
FNAC started to deliver goods by cycle in Madrid in April 2012, according to their website
>> read more on www2.fnac.es

CycleLogistics brings goods to European Parliament
“Cycles can deliver 50% of all light goods and 25% of all goods in our urban areas" said ECF at a seminar in the European Parliament on Eco Friendly Transport hosted by MEP Vittorio Prodi.
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Outspoken Deliver The Goods For Explorer!
Explorer a lifestyle magazine covering Cambridge,UK is now delivered to business premisies using cargo bikes & trikes operated by Outspoken Delivery.
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Reggio Emilia City Centre courrier is green: he delivers only by cargo bike
Interview (in italian) to Mr. Claudio Bassi, 46, about its individual company Bike Messenger delivering small freights by a danish cargo bike in the city centre of Reggio Emilia. After two years of deliveries for shops and offices Mr. Bassi signed an exclusive agreement with international delivery company SDA.
>> read more on gazzettadireggio.gelocal.it

Beautiful custom made trikes and bikes from Slovenia (SI)
Organic food is served in Ljubljana on a beautiful cargo bicycle custom made by the Slovenian sculturist Jaka Mihelic.
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New “BentoBox” to make the delivery transport in Berlin cleaner and more efficient (DE)
Just recently the City of Berlin presented the “BentoBox”, Europe’s first prototype of a flexile collection station for packages, little packets and smaller sachets. The station was combined with the deployment of innovative cargo bikes to achieve quick, cost efficient, emission free and almost silent distribution of goods.
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Bio Catering Served on Cargo Bikes in Valencia
A small family business committed to social and environmental values delivers catering on cargo bikes which they designed and built.
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Flemish government promotes bicycle courier services (Belgium)
A recent study shows that bicycle courier services have the potential to grow in Flemish cities. The Flemish government will promote the use of these services and start to use them in its own governmental departments.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Bike messenger services on the rise in Italian cities (Italy)
The boom of urban bike messenger in many Italian cities is changing the concept and attractiveness of parcel and mail deliveries in urban areas.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Share your cargo bikes via the internet (Germany)
People who own a cargo bike or a bike trailer and are willing to share them with others free of chargecan enter the location and the specifications of the bicycle or trailer on lara.webinprogress.de. Owners of bikes and trailers can be contacted via e-mail or phone. So far the site contains entries from cities in Germany and Austia.
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IKEA tests cargo bike in Delft (The Netherlands)
IKEA, the Swedish furniture store has recently, introduced a ‘cargo-bike’ rental scheme for customers at its Delft store so they can ‘pedal’ their purchased furniture home. Currently, they are two tests bicycles available for customers with rental charges starting from €10.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Urban deliveries on zero emissions electric tricycles in Paris (France)
Urban deliveries on zero emissions electric tricycles in Paris (France)
FedEx Corp. expands the use of innovative cargo bikes for its deliveries across the city of Paris.
>> read more on www.eltis.org

Subsidy for cargo bikes in Graz, Austria
A major goal of the City of Graz is to promote the use of bicycles. This includes the use of bicycles by private individuals as well as for professional activities. Therefore, the City of Graz currently grants a subsidy for the acquisition of cargo bikes to companies and institutions (schools, universities, housing associations, etc.).
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Cargo Race in Milan, italy
La Stazione delle Biciclette, italian cargo bike operator is organising a cargo bike race in Milan the coming 20th of December 2011
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