(R)Evolutions per Minute: Cargo Bikes in the US - a trailer for the crowdsourced documentary

This is a new and improved version of what was "The US Cargo Bike Revolution doc trailer." (The big changes are toward the end.)

Do you love your cargo bike? Has it changed your life? Your family? Your town?
Join me in producing an authentic crowdsourced document of a cultural revolution in progress. I'm seeking submissions from cargo bike folk all over the world to combine in the form of a feature length documentary. More info at www.lizcanning.com. Watch the trailer, visit my site, get inspired and learn how to become a co-director!

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[compostjohn]

Awesome. I'm in the UK, and moved house by bike 11 years ago. I hope you extend the film to around the world. Want me to do some filming?

I have a custom-made trailer and heavy duty bike, and transport my circus show around, also logs, compostables.... you name it, if it's not more than about 100kg, I can carry it.

I look forward to the film even if it is US only. This video made me laugh and cry.

[phroboi]

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for being part of this movement. My partner and I don't own a car and accomplish all our errands via bike. Full disclosure would be appreciated.

There are few affordable, well-made parts and bicycle manufacturers based in the US. Hopefully these ideas will lead to more metalworking jobs. Even then, I'm skeptical at best that structural change will be achieved.  An ongoing, and important, discourse will inevitably ensue.

[phroboi]

The views expressed in this video are inspirational, but romantic. Cargo bikes aren't cheap. They are cheap relative to owning a car, but they are not "cheap". Even at cost they run $1000+, which for low-income families is a large investment. Conversions run $500-$2000+, see Tom's Cargo Bikes, based out of Portland.

The majority of bicycle components are fabricated in the East and shipped West = emissions = externalities not taken into account.

[TheFlyinghun]

Fabulous vid and project! I particularly like how much fun you're kids are clearly having. Yeah, get the story out there!

[strimlip]

Uhm. It's a bike. Invented 200 years ago.

[ziotranky]

(R)Evolution is possible!



[risasb]

The downside, for now, in the US, is the high level of driver ignorance and potential for road rage.Shared roads are shared poorly by the behemoths, And Bush's transportation secretary scoffed, in effect, "We do people keep referring to _bicycles+ as transportation?" We, not too long ago, lost a kid in our town that was rear-ended behind her mom in a bike trailer. But we have to start somewhere.

[risasb]

@jimfeustel Even those who don't have this level of competence (me for example) can carry a lot more than we think on a conventional bike. I've added a handlebar basket, pannier baskets, and a milk crate on the pannier basket rack and can carry a whole lot of groceries, plants, foraged fruit, even scrounged firewood this way.

[jimfeustel]

She is right at the end of the video...once you start to ride a cargo bike to do all of your commuting and do all of your hauling, you want to do it! I built mt own cargo bike that is simialar to a bike with an Xtracycle kit. I have been to the grocery store and carried a whole shopping carts worth of stuff on it!

[geegeevindaloo]

Wow, this is super inspiring! I've been drooling over cargo bikes for awhile... ever since seeing huge loads carried by bike in Southeast Asia.