Suburban dream

The growth in cycling in London has been fairly selective: at 8:30 some junctions will see thirty plus cyclists at each phase of the traffic lights and over many bridges, bicycles are the most common vehicle. However outside the rush-hour and away from the main commuter routes to Central London,

You get what you pay for

WorkCycles is Amsterdam’s specialist on cargobikes. This is from their Flickr stream: At Workcycles we repair a lot of bikes, especially the transport bicycles since that’s our speciality. About half the bikes in the shop are usually Workcycles but we’re happy to fix anything as long as we can do

Transporting a baby

Simply Bikes has a guest post by Juliet Kemp, London-based Christiania Mum. Her son has just graduated from car seat to soft seat. She has some words of advice. We had an extra lap belt fitted to the floor of the cargo box, and acquired a second-hand car seat to

How it all started

A charming look at the origin of Christiania Bikes

Election Day USA

Just another school pick-up, Dutch-style

We live above an elementary school. In addition to the pleasure of hearing non-stop squeals and laughter from the children, I also get to witness the oh-so-Dutch school pick-up at 3pm sharp (1pm on Wednesdays). Here’s how it works. About 972 bicycles ridden by 972 parents appear out of nowhere

Christiania Tricycles in Zurich

While in Zurich for his TedEx talk, Mikael Colville Andersen spotted a couple of Christiania tricycles. The Low Box is very fast; ideal for fast deliveries. The Post Box is appropriate for deliveries and for promotions. Our advice is to use the box panels to display a company logo.

The Wonderful World Of Bike-Based Deliveries

Fast Company has featured the recently established European Cycle Logistics Federation, whose role is to promote the use of cargo bikes for urban deliveries. Here is a quote that should make people reflect: Research by the German Institute of Transport Research found that e-cargo bikes could take care of 85%

Collecting a double bed

Muji charges £35 for home delivery, but one can collect from one of their shops for free. I live three kilometres away, and loading and transporting a new double bed was very easy on Christiania Long tricycle; I could park right in front of the store in Tottenham Court Road

Estée Lauder at Copenhagen Airport

This summer, Estée Lauder ordered four Christiania tricycles from our London dealer, London Green Cycles to set up as promotional tools for four international airports. Above is the completed fit-out at Kastrup Airport.

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