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01/04/2008: "Bakfietsen to the Future!"
Friend and fellow Los Angeles bicycle advocate, and all-around good guy, Josef Bray-Ali, finding himself in the crosshairs of a fast-approaching fatherhood, took a step forward towards a better life by buying a Dutch cargo bike for child-porting duties!Read the article here: Bakfietsen to the Future!.
I rode the machine yesterday, and it is much lighter on its feet than you'd expect.
This is possibly only the second such machine in Los Angeles. But not, one hopes, the last, by any means!