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February 2008 - Posts

• Around the world on a Long John bike

  Robbo Johnson wrote to us recently about his extensive travels on an old Danish Long John transport bike. For 8 years Robbo has been riding this rig which is five meters long and weighs 300kg loaded. It includes not just the loaded LongJohn bicycle but also a huge bike trailer. He’s apparently traveled about 90,000km [...] Posted Feb 19 2008, 05:27 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Transportfiets / Workbike

• Power to the Pedal Design Competition

  Design 21, the “Social design network” is organizing “Power to the Pedal” a design competition for accessories or add-ons for existing bicycles to make them more practical, handy and safer for primary transport. In Design 21’s own words: This competition calls for a biking accessory or add-on for existing bikes that would improve the bicycling experience [...] Posted Feb 18 2008, 04:43 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Practical cycling, Events

• Het Blijefietsenplan (the happy bike program)

  This site called “Het blijefietsenplan” plays on an inside joke in Dutch. The Dutch love “plans”, especially with regard to bicycles. These “plans” are always something serious: They can be political or have something to do with reducing your taxes. Back in the idealistic 60’s a highly progressive Amsterdam politician and bicycle promoter by the name [...] Posted Feb 08 2008, 10:55 AM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized

• Simplex Bicycles in Indonesia

  I can’t read Indonesian so I can only hypothesize about this site about pre-WWII Simplex bicycles in Indonesia. Simplex was an Amsterdam bike maker that made some of the best bikes of this period. That’s significant considering that the Dutch bikes of this era were probably the best city bicycles ever built. Seventy years later [...] Posted Feb 07 2008, 06:12 PM by Bakfiets en meer Filed under: Uncategorized, Transportfiets / Workbike