jiml ([info]xuth) wrote,
@ 2007-10-31 16:03:00
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A new company is opening in Cambridge to offer delivery service by bicycle. They seem to also be selling the "tricycle trucks" that they're using and also "bicycle minivans".
They have pictures of the "tricycle trucks" in several configurations (what looks to be a 3x4 foot cargo area with or without containers). But they have no information whatsover about the "minivans" other than "they replace the family minivan".
I think it's cool that something like this is coming to cambridge. I'm curious about the "minivan" but I'm pretty sure that my BikesAtWork trailer is more useful to me than the tricycle truck. I might stop by the open house that they're having this friday just to see what they've got. The web page says it's from 4-6 but the email invite says 4-9... I'll have to see what they have to say about it.

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[info]magid
2007-10-31 09:20 pm UTC (link)
Looks like an interesting business. I might drop into the open house.

(I'm wishing I had a good place to store a bike on ground level now.)

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[info]magid
2007-11-05 09:15 pm UTC (link)
I didn't make it. Did you go? Was it interesting?

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[info]xuth
2007-11-05 09:54 pm UTC (link)
I did go. I found that the trike itself was abhorently expensive and imho unwieldy. All the ones they had had electric assists on them, ostensibly for starting on hills etc. One of their primary selling points is that these trikes can go and stop places where cars can't but they're large enough that they're going to block either the sidewalk if they're brought up there or enough of the road to be a problem if they double park. There was a very large SCUL contingent there since a SCUL member is one of the primaries involved. They're also looking to sell the bicycles with large buckets on the front of them that are popular in Amsterdam (look on this page and scroll down a bit to "Industrial Work Buckets on the Front of Bicycles" and past the next image to see some examples).

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[info]magid
2007-11-06 06:48 pm UTC (link)
These people didn't think about traffic flow as much as they could, it sounds like.

Interesting site.

Do you know how having a big bucket/container in front compares to having it in back?

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[info]xuth
2007-11-06 06:57 pm UTC (link)
I don't know how much it matters front or back. The big thing is that it's low to the ground (which is hard to do on the back) and that it's not directly affecting your steering (like most front baskets) so it should handle fairly well assuming the rest of the bike geometry is sound.

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