PDX Cargo Bike Roll Call
On the day before my fun trip to Portland was to end, I was lucky enough to be attend a really neat event, a Cargo Bike Roll Call! This event was super convenient for me for several reasons. Some of my favorite Portlanders were already going. The event was held at Hopworks Urban Brewery’s BikeBar, which is right next door to the Bike School where I was taking classes. And I was in Portland, in part, to soak in as many good ideas about how that fine city incorporates cargo bikes into its fabric. This will be especially useful in helping Madi from Family Ride to put on Seattle’s First Ever Cargo Bike Roll Call this coming Saturday. You should come! It is gonna be a blast!
The cargo bike roll call was one of the most interesting collections of bicycles I’ve ever seen. Some highlights:
- Shetha’s Bilenky longtail (did you even know they made those? me neither. pic# 7077 and 7078)
- Xtravois 2.0 from Clever Cycles and Quixote! (this was soooo cool to see in person, wish I’d given it a test ride. pic#7080 and 7128)
- The awesome diy long john made from two classic 20′ wheel folding bikes (pic# 7107 and 7110)
- The always lovely Metrofiets. (pic# 7103 and 7113)
- The Splendid Cycles electric delivery Bullitt looks like it might be the most useful bike on the planet. (pic# 7087)
- I guess the Trailhead Coffee Roasters bike is worth a mention, too. (pic# 7104, 7105 and 7122)
- The closest a Zigo trike gets to being useful. (not nice, I know. pic# 7109)
- The kids were all super cute. (pic #7115)
- My new friends, and super cycling Bad-Ass Bakfiets Mamas, Kath and Emily (and some of their cool kids, too! pic# 7118, 7125, 7129 and 7130)
Enjoy!
-Update!-
Hi, Bike Portland! Feel free and look around! Maybe you’d like to see some other pics from your fair City of Roses?
Glad you made it.
Super cool!
I’m such a lazy blog reader, I just saw this. Thank you for all the lovely photos! It’s nice to see that all that reflective tape really does reflect. I also appreciate that there weren’t any photos of my laying down the bike and all the dads running to my rescue (I’m still red-faced about it).
Since you included a close up of the cargo net that I had on the back rack, I feel a need to mention that it broke last week when a box of diapers stretched it to its limit. It’s still functional and I have it in my kit as a back-up, but I went back to the 3-elastic strap kind that the bakfiets came with.
I’d like to echo Travis, and say how nice it was to meet you, chat with you, and ride with you. Please don’t be quiet about it next time you come to Portland.
I don’t think you need a red face. I’ve spilled with the kid onboard before. I think everybody does. Maybe if we all talk a bout it a little we can get over the shame and also realize that tipping a bike over will most likely not seriously harm our kids.
Oh boy, thanks! I had a wonderful time meeting you as well.
Same to you and yours next time you travel up Seattle way.