This blog category will be the location of comparing many different styles and builds of cargo bicycles. As you can read in the paper I feel compassionate about bicycling and in particular being able to carry all kinds of stuff on them. Running a big garden operation, complete with fruit trees and chicken, and tinkering with bikes and sheds, I need to carry things, and if I remain car-less, as I intend, I need to carry everything on the bike.

Here is a list of bikes I will examine for functionality, comfort, speed, energy and beauty/elegance:

• I am getting a Yuba Mundo bicycle hopefully arriving here just before our bike show this Friday (on the common of Amherst, from 7am to 11am)
• A Box Trike that I built last fall
• Another contraption I call a Front-Decker, that I just completed a few weeks ago
• And an old bicycle integrated with an XtraCycle FreeRadical kit and an electric kit, that I have used for over a year now.
• A friend of mine has a Surly Big Dummy my size I will borrow and test-ride.

Watch this space for updates (hopefully every other week, or more frequently.

Gabor