 Traditional Dutch cargo tricycle
 Old-fashioned Dutch freight tricycle
 Modern long-wheelbase freight bicycle from Amsterdam
 Danish Long John freight bicycle Freight bicycles or Freight tricycles or cargo bikes are human powered vehicles designed and constructed specifically for transporting large loads. Vehicle designs usually include a cargo handling area consisting of an enclosed box (cabinet), a flat platform, or a wire bracket basket. These may be mounted between parallel wheels at either the front or rear of the vehicle. The frame and drivetrain must be constructed to handle loads several times that of an ordinary bicycle. Other specific design considerations include operator visibility and load suspension. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ...
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Antique tricycle 19th century tricycle used in Iran A tricycle (often abbreviated to trike) is a three-wheeled vehicle. ...
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More on the subject, along with some duplication, can be read in the article "Workbike". Pushing a loaded workbike in Jakarta, Indonesia A workbike is a bicycle built for some purpose other than strictly human transportation. ...
History Historically, freight bicycles were heavy-duty standard bicycles, typically with heavy carriers at front or rear. During the early part of the 20th Century these were commonly used by tradespeople for local deliveries (in the UK this style is still sometimes known as a butcher's bike, although the Post Office have by far the largest fleet). Modern freight cycles vary much more widely, often being tailored to particular applications.
Pros and cons An obvious limitation of a human-powered utility vehicle is the relative weakness of its "motor", enforcing very strict limitations on the balance between tare weight, payload, and geographical (not to mention topographical) range. Because of the inherent physical demands on the driver and the lack of protection against either the elements or other traffic, there is also a potential for working conditions becoming a serious problem. This can be very real in the Third World, which also has by far the greatest proportion of human-powered transport.
Efforts to counter this by technical means are hampered by the very requirement for low weight, conspiring with the need for sturdy simplicity due to the small-scale, low-cost character of most probable users or applications. Three human powered vehicles: the Gossamer Albatross II and two bicycles. ...
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Yet, they have much to commend them. Non-motorized vehicles are particularly attractive where motorized vehicles:
- would become stuck in congested traffic
- would create air pollution problems (e.g. enclosed warehouses and industrial plants)
- would create safety problems (e.g. crowded pedestrian areas)
- would be prohibitively expensive to operate at a profit
- would be limited by fuel availability
- would be limited by the availability of on-street parking
- are restricted for environmental reasons (e.g. protected lands)
- prove inefficient for short order production or distribution schedules or for the last mile phase of a delivery.
Non-motorized vehicles do not generate sparks (having no electric components or combustion engines), therefore, they are used in refineries, chemical, petrochemical, and many other industries where due to fire hazard and presence of combustible chemicals, only non-motorized bicycles or tricycles can be used for transportation. Air pollution is a chemical, physical (e. ...
Common Usages Common usages include: - delivery services in dense urban environments
- food vending in high foot traffic areas (including specialist ice cream bikes)
- transporting trade tools, including around large installations such as power stations and CERN
- airport cargo handling
- recycling collections
- warehouse inventory transportation
- mail (The UK post office operates a fleet of 33,000 bicycles, mainly the Pashley MailStar)
Because of the strong economic advantageous realizable by widespread proliferation of freight bicycles, Oxfam has designed the OxTrike and established local production at community workshops in non-industrialized countries for use in non-industrialized countries worldwide. Dangdang, China’s biggest online bookseller, uses 30 bicycle courier companies in 12 cities to deliver goods and collect payments. CERN logo The European Organization for Nuclear Research (French: ), commonly known as CERN (see Naming), pronounced (or in French), is the worlds largest particle physics laboratory, situated just northwest of Geneva on the border between France and Switzerland. ...
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Pashley is a British bicycle manufacturer which is based in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. ...
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Two-wheel truss-frame trailer Single-wheel trailer Two-wheel axle-less trailer Wooden bicycle trailer special trailer for bike-trekking - shock absorbed with long spring travel A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system designed for transporting cargo by bicycle. ...
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Rhombus layout quadricycle (1886) Coventry Rotary quadracycle (1885) A Quadricycle is a four-wheeled human-powered vehicle. ...
Antique tricycle 19th century tricycle used in Iran A tricycle (often abbreviated to trike) is a three-wheeled vehicle. ...
Ugandan bicycle taxi or bodaboda Utility cycling encompasses any cycling not done primarily for fitness, recreation such as cycle touring, or sport such as cycle racing, but simply as a means of transport. ...
Pushing a loaded workbike in Jakarta, Indonesia A workbike is a bicycle built for some purpose other than strictly human transportation. ...
An Xtracycle or Xtrabike is a variety of load-carrying bicycle. ...
Pashley is a British bicycle manufacturer which is based in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. ...
Jan VanderTuin is a bicycle designer and community organizer, who established Human Powered Machines in 1991, in Eugene, Oregon. ...
George Bliss is a world famous bicycle designer living in New York City. ...
Mike Burrows is a world famous bicycle designer, well known for the design of the time trial bike manufactured by Lotus for Chris Boardman, though he also contributed to a bicycle for Graeme Obree. ...
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