where to get me a cargo bike

Delivery date is today. Going to be just shy of 16 months start to finish. Problem with the German e-motor added about 9 month delay. Hopefully worth waiting for, have the regular Workcycles FR8 past 3 1/2 years and it is a brilliant bike so am hopeful it will be just as good

Yes, sad to see. They started the revolution but once the big dealers started eating there cake I say it was hard to compete. The closure really only added a few weeks delay in the end, am dealing with Workcycles direct since mid August

Irish Cycle covered the Babboe news too.

https://irishcycle.com/2024/02/19/babboe-cargo-bikes-recalled-by-dutch-regulator-due-to-risk-of-very-serious-injuries-irish-owners-facing-uncertainty-for-now/

Reading Dutch news through Google translate is fun:

TCD are looking for e-cargo bike owners for a study, funded by SEAI - could be a gateway to better policies, e.g.

• Expected Project Benefits:
  • This mixed-methods e-cargo bike study could provide comprehensive insights into the intersectoral policies needed to expand the substitution of private car journeys – and potentially private car ownership – with e-cargo bikes. In particular, it will be well-positioned to inform:
  • • grants and incentive policies for e-cargo bike purchase (and relatedly, grants/incentive schemes for electric car purchase – which could be seen in relation to e-cargo bikes);
  • • training programmes for confident e-cargo bike use;
  • • e-cargo bike-friendly mobility and parking infrastructure in public and private spaces;
  • • social marketing for e-cargo bikes (with a contextual attention to social marketing for electric cars);
  • • land-use planning of destinations that may involve the collection and carriage of cargo (e.g., food and hardware shops) from the perspective of e-cargo bike accessibility relative to the car – and, relatedly, the localisation of everyday mobility practices/destinations.

(From pdf at https://www.tcd.ie/transport-research/assets/pdfs/Recruitment%20Advertisement.pdf)

Dont get a cargo bike. Nothing more annoying than cargo bikes clogging up the cycle lanes. The SUV of bikes.

Isnt it amazing that any complaint about anything cycling related has people just ignore the issue and go straight to the cars are bad, so everything cycling is good mantra. Cargo bikes are a scourge. Theres one woman in Rathmines with 2 kids in hers that i have to leave the cycling lane to go around at almost the same place every morning. You would see often her randomly stopped in the cycle lane dealing with some issue the kids have that morning. The other day she had the bike sticking out into the road when she was stopped at a red light. Kids all layed out to get squashed by a car coming by with the driver picking their nose or doing their makeup and not looking.

Yes if anything happened its the drivers fault for not concentrating, but its also her fault for not anticipating threats to her children and putting them in harms way. It should be illegal to put children in a cargo bike.

You don't have to leave the cycle lane, you can just stay behind her.

You're choosing to leave the lane and overtake.

There we go again. Get the cars out of your head. Think about the issue here. It effects all other cyclists behind. To be fair shes not the only one.

Well you better get used to it then because there are more coming. Would you buy one and put your kids in it on the roads? Personally I think anyone with kids in a cargo bike should be prosecuted.

Talking to other cyclists is like talking to a wall so this will be my last comment on it.

Yeah, me too. Been doing it for about eight years, about 50 000km. All fine, no problems worth talking about.

I do look behind me a lot and position myself more towards the kerb when I see someone coming up behind me on a bike faster than I can go. More like the tractor of the cycle track, in that regard, rather than the SUV.

More on Babboe recall. Some models just need an inspection.

https://irishcycle.com/2024/04/02/babboe-narrows-down-cargo-bicycles-subject-to-recall-recommends-inspection-of-others/

I can give a big thumbs up for Bee Cycles… Very reasonable prices and he's serviced my Nexus 8 in the past & done some additional stuff that was beyond my capabilities. I'm not sure if he's got the setup for motors, but I'll be i touch with him when my cargo bike arrives.