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There's been lots of action around here since our last update in August. 

For starters, we purchased three new trailers!  These first members of our fledgeling fleet,  nicknamed Isobel 1, 2, and 3, all came to us second-hand, but they're in great shape. 

Woo-hoo! After a successful flurry of fundraising, we're in shape to start making decisions about what bike(s) we want to start with. With that in mind, a few of us got together last week to test ride some different types of cargo bikes. We experimented with four arrangements: a recumbent trike with trailer, a chopper bike with trailer, a giant electric-assisted front-loaded cargo trike, and a smaller conventional front-loaded trike.

The Vancouver Courier recently wrote us up. Check out their nice article: http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=7e737e5b-4a89-...

Our good friend Frank Lopez made this nifty little video about this year's Car-Free Day. Around 1:49, there's an front-loading pedal/electic cargo trike. Does anyone have any contact info on this? Frank says that the bike was custom made by a shop in Surrey, and we're trying to track down more details.Here's the video:

http://www.streetfilms.org/archives/car-free-vancouver-day/

-Zoey

NPR just did a story on cargo bikes which features one of the models I'm interested in. They're incredibly expensive, but I love the huge, lockable, weather proof cargo area.

It's seems like all of a sudden everyone is writing about cargo bikes. Awesome! Here's a recent article from the Vancouver Sun. More to come...
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/westcoastlife/story.html?id=bcc9...

We're going to use this space to keep people up to date on the happenings of the cargo bike coop. Thanks for checking in, and stay tuned!