What shows up on a Cargo Bike Ride?
I’ve blogged about many of the Seattle Cargo Bike Rides. They happen on holidays and usually involve 20-30 people loading up their bikes with BBQ equipment, food, and beverages and heading out to a park for an enjoyable afternoon. They happen rain or shine, winter or summer. Yesterday was the Second Annual Memorial Day Jamboree, organized by Ro.
When this ride started it was almost all XtraCycles. Last year as a joke I brought a second bike with me (in a trailer) to have an “extra cycle” since I didn’t have an XtraCycle. In the last year the ride has diversified. There are more normal bikes and more varied cargo bikes. Here are some of the things that were on the ride.
Porteur/basket bikes:
Ro’s photo is a nice transition into the trailered bikes:
Then you get into the big cargo bikes:
Rounding out the collection there are a variety of “more normal” bikes and some fun bikes such as this really pretty tallbike:
I’m looking forward to the next one on July 4th. The people make the ride and the Cargo Bike rides always have a great group of folks show up.
I totally just used this as propaganda to show my housemate who is considering giving up his car!
Wish I”d been less exhausted from bike-camping and Slow Sundaying, the pictures you take are so lovely!