They then used a platformed freight bicycle to transport the bamboo to a construction site.

Child transport; it is estimated that 90% of the freight bicycles sold in Amsterdam are used primarily to carry children.

Freight bicycles have a number of advantages over motorised vehicles:

Freight bicycles are used as low-cost, zero-emission vehicles to haul cargo.

The first freight bicycles were used by tradesmen to deliver mail, bread and milk amongst other things.

Finally, chains with 5/32" wide rollers are used on freight bicycles and tricycles.

They are most common on utility bicycles in some countries, especially Netherlands, and are also often found on freight bicycles.

The extended rear better facilitates use as a freight bicycle or carrying multiple or adult passengers compared with shorter bicycles.

Mamudeen, the pioneer of doubles, was the first to build a wooden box, painted yellow, to fit his freight bicycle from which he sold doubles.

Most offer free local delivery of groceries; many use deliverymen who ride three-wheeled cycles with an attached cart, similar to the Dutch Bakfiets freight bicycle.

Freight bicycles, carrier cycles, freight tricycles, cargo bikes, cycletrucks, or long johns, are human powered vehicles designed and constructed specifically for transporting loads.

Early freight bicycles were heavy-duty standard bicycles, with heavy carriers at front or rear, sometimes with a smaller front wheel to accommodate a large front carrier.

The Long John Bicycle is a freight bicycle with the cargo area in front of the rider and some linkage connecting the steering to the front wheel.

Ordinary bicycles, recumbent bicycles, and other derivatives as velomobiles, cabin cycles and freight bicycles are probably the most well known zero-emissions transport surface vehicles.

Around 1932, C.C.M. introduced the Light Delivery Bicycle, a freight bicycle with a stronger frame made of heavier gauge tubing and a basket.

He pioneered the niche industry in Manhattan, specifically custom designed freight bicycles including the Dump Trike and the smaller Pick-Up Trike and pedicabs.

In cities, the bicycle courier is often a familiar feature, and freight bicycles are capable of competing with trucks and vans particularly where many small deliveries are required, especially in congested areas.

Specializing in motorised and pedal powered tricycles designed for transporting goods, which are known as Triporteur in France and in their pedal powered form a three wheeled Freight bicycle.

Because of the strong economic advantages realizable by widespread proliferation of freight bicycles, Oxfam has designed the OxTrike and established local production at community workshops in non-industrialized countries for use in non-industrialized countries worldwide.

The system is useful for folding bicycles (where a multiple front chainset could foul the bike's folding mechanism) and in recumbent bicycles and freight bicycles (where small wheels and/or increased weight require a wider range of gears with smaller steps).