indago
02-15-2016, 06:02 AM
From The New York Times 14 February 2016:
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The movers arrived at Barbara Ross’s apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan one Friday last month, grabbing bags of clothes and shoes, framed pictures and boxes of CDs. They carried the items downstairs and loaded them onto four long-framed cargo bicycles parked on Ridge Street. ...“I have always been a big supporter of bicycles over cars,” Ms. Ross said. “So if I could find a way to move my apartment using cargo bikes instead of a moving truck, of course I was going to do it.” ...Ryan Backer, 27, said that in 2013 he had transported a five-foot fully stocked freezer. ...The collective was founded in 2012 by a group of people who had used cargo bikes for such diverse purposes as hauling construction equipment and taking young children to school.
...“It’s all about balance and momentum,” he said. “But it helps to be fearless.”
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article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/nyregion/on-the-move-in-new-york-on-bicycles-built-for-more-than-2.html?ref=todayspaper)
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The movers arrived at Barbara Ross’s apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan one Friday last month, grabbing bags of clothes and shoes, framed pictures and boxes of CDs. They carried the items downstairs and loaded them onto four long-framed cargo bicycles parked on Ridge Street. ...“I have always been a big supporter of bicycles over cars,” Ms. Ross said. “So if I could find a way to move my apartment using cargo bikes instead of a moving truck, of course I was going to do it.” ...Ryan Backer, 27, said that in 2013 he had transported a five-foot fully stocked freezer. ...The collective was founded in 2012 by a group of people who had used cargo bikes for such diverse purposes as hauling construction equipment and taking young children to school.
...“It’s all about balance and momentum,” he said. “But it helps to be fearless.”
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article (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/15/nyregion/on-the-move-in-new-york-on-bicycles-built-for-more-than-2.html?ref=todayspaper)