The much anticipated WorkCycles/Bakfiets Cargobike Extra Long is finally here! Ironically when Maarten van Andel introduced the original Bakfiets.nl Cargobike dealers and customers told him it was too long, too strange, too un-Dutch. To pacify them he designed the Bakfiets.nl Cargobike Short, even though...

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...

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...