Re:Cargo bikes as symbolic markers of egalitarian gender roles
by stevenwoo on Sunday July 08, 2018 @08:01PM
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This seems unlikely right now. Most major manufacturers of bicycles are in Taiwan and China (all brands around the world use them), but this is for bicycles built for a single person. Most of the frames are carbon fiber, a mold is built for various sizes and is used 1000's of times. For some reason cargo bikes are a different story and welded together from steel or aluminum (there might be a few carbon fiber ones, but I assume cost of r&d/manufacturing to be prohibitive to be competitive with metal for small lots). Alibaba has lots of generic bicycle frames but no cargo bikes.
I guess it is an opportunity to buy a few from China and start a rent-by-the-hour service.