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General Category => On The Road => Topic started by: Dave on 29 May, 2008, 05:34:45 pm

Title: Old & busted: Chelsea tractors. New & spiffy: Cargo bikes???
Post by: Dave on 29 May, 2008, 05:34:45 pm

'Pro'-bike article The Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022678/Pictured-The-wheelbarrow-bike-solution-school-run-traffic-jams.html) of all places. You could knock me down with the proverbial...

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Families in Richmond are being asked to swap their 4x4s for a more environmentally friendly mode of transport: Dutch cargo bikes.

Title: Re: Old & busted: Chelsea tractors. New & spiffy: Cargo bikes???
Post by: clarion on 29 May, 2008, 05:55:18 pm

*faints with surprise*

Title: Re: Old & busted: Chelsea tractors. New & spiffy: Cargo bikes???
Post by: Wendy on 29 May, 2008, 06:41:43 pm

*Surprised*!!!

Actually, I saw a bakfiets on the Ride in Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens last week.  Most impressed!

Title: Re: Old & busted: Chelsea tractors. New & spiffy: Cargo bikes???
Post by: Gandalf on 29 May, 2008, 06:55:01 pm

I just hope one of them doesn't overtake me as I'm struggling up Dark Hill   :)

Title: Re: Old & busted: Chelsea tractors. New & spiffy: Cargo bikes???
Post by: David Martin on 29 May, 2008, 06:58:27 pm

Quote from: Dave on 29 May, 2008, 05:34:45 pm

'Pro'-bike article The Mail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1022678/Pictured-The-wheelbarrow-bike-solution-school-run-traffic-jams.html) of all places. You could knock me down with the proverbial...

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Families in Richmond are being asked to swap their 4x4s for a more environmentally friendly mode of transport: Dutch cargo bikes.

Though the secondary school kids in the picture go to school in Kingston..

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