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Cargo bikes-Bicycles Hauling Lawnmowers and Other Heavy Cargo

Ernie | Dec 20, 2010 |

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Bicycles are commonly used to move cargo. In the United States it is less common then in other countries. In Twin Falls Idaho the use of cargo bicycles is very low. You rarely see a cargo bicycle in Twin Falls Idaho but Cargo bike usage in the United States seems to be seeing an uptick.

Whether you choose to purchase a cargo bike or cargo trailer for your bicycle or instead design and build your own cargo trailer for your bicycle is up to you. Some people are surprised at what can be hauled with bicycles.

The bicycle is a tool, the tool to transport people and things efficiently. A bicycle is a low cost method used by many through out the world to provide medical care, gather food, and to harvest from the trash dump that which may be used or resold to help feed their family.

We tend to think of bicycles as a recreational activity but they are so much more. Here in Twin Falls we have many homeless individuals that depend on bicycles to get them from their "camp" into town to work and do errands.

In England a man has started a lawn mowing business and he hauls his lawnmower on a trailer pulled by his bicycle. In Africa health workers travel many miles by bicycle to transport medicine to those dying of AIDS. In Afghanistan some of our troops are using bicycles to help them move rapidly in certain areas.

A bicycle is the basis of advanced transportation. Without the lowly bicycle we never would have had motorcycles, automobiles or airplanes. The design of a bicycle is simplicity, but the necessity of bicycles is complex. To not just ride bicycles, but to utilize them to better ones life, increases the mobility of much of society in a low cost fashion that simply cannot be duplicated by any other means. The bicycle is not just a toy. It's a lifesaving tool.