Books Below are links to some workbike books that you can order direct from Amazon.com. If you buy a book from one of these links, workbike.org gets a 10% commission.
Bike Trailer Information Summary Cycling for Profit; How to Make a Living with Your Bike
By Jim Gregory of Bikes at Work
Detour Publications - Books on sustainable transport Dreiräder - Liegerad-Datei and HPV-Deutschland Lonely Planet: Chasing Rickshaws
by Tony Wheeler and Richard I'anson Calcutta Cycle-Rickshaw Pullers: A Sociological Study
by Subir Bandyopadhyay
Consultants Beeldrijk - Advises companies on integrating bicycles in their vehicle fleet
Büro für Mobilität AG - Amongst other projects, helped the successful Bewachte Velostation in Burgdorf DiMarCo - Consultants to the pedicab industry
Historical archives Baskets of delivery bikes - Many images of butcher bikes with baskets Beijing tricycles - Studio shots of classic trikes with different cargo backs Brief History of Utility Cycles for Families & Business - Including a slide show focusing on workbikes 1880-1910 Courier racing in Paris from 1920-1950 - Including Championnat des Triporteurs and Championnat des Vélos-Taxis Dutch bicycle industry's historic website - Several pictures of historic workbikes
Lavoro sui pedali - Bicycles and tricycles adapted for different trades (Italian)
Load-carrying cycles of the past - from messengers.org Miniatuur Fietsen - Model bikes and bikes on stamps; has a section on workbikes
Information, various
Gear Change - Cycling to work - Info and accessories
IBF - DIY trailer instructions
Liegerad - HPV and workbike info
Questioning Combustion - Ongoing photographic collection documenting a wide variety of creative bike designs and pedal-powered vehicles from around the world
Velojournal - review of workbike scene in Switzerland (2002)
Magazines A2B - sustainable transport magazine VeloVision - a quarterly magazine edited and published by Peter Eland from York, UK, and has an associated website at http://www.velovision.co.uk/ updated daily with cycle culture news. It strongly supports the workbike movement and aims to have articles of interest to workbike riders in every issue.If you have a workbike story you'd like to see in the magazine, please contact Peter Eland at peter@velovision.co.uk
Mailing Lists and Forums We recommend that you subscribe to the workbike@ihpva.org mailing list. You can do this at: www.ihpva.org/mailman/listinfo/workbike
There is also a 'power assist' mailing list for electric bikes: power-assist@topica.com. To subscribe, send a message to power-assist-subscribe@topica.com Rickshawforum.com is a resource for all operators, manufacturers and pedicab drivers.
New designsFort Collins Bike Freaks - Journal of construction of home-designed bakfiets Community Bike Cart Design - How to build a home-made trailer Dog trike - Mesh cage on tricycle Home-made recumbent cargo tricycle - Excellent description of design and manufacturing process
Mark Rehder Motor assisted handicapped rickshaw
Nari Prototype trike for parcel deliveries
Springtime
Self-built Long John
MozBike
Home-built heavy-duty racks
http://www.bicyclinglife.com/HowTo/HeavyDutyRacks.htm
Greenheart Micro Cab
www.gmtmicrocab.co.uk
Front wheel drive cargo trike
Organic Engines
Transparent fairings for recumbents
www.mueller-hp.com
Lockable waterproof containers
www.nicator.supermedia.pl
Lynch electric hub motors
www.lemcoltd.com
Heinzmann electric hub motors
www.evselect.com
Organisations Center for Appropriate Transport
CESTA - Centro Salvadoreño de Tecnología Apropiada
Cutting your car use, Green Transport Consultancy
European Cyclists Federation
Institute for Transportation and Development Policy
International Bicycle Fund
International Federation of Bike Messenger Associations
International Human Powered Vehicle Association
X-access - makes load-bearing bicycles possible for people who need them most yet can least afford them
Retailers Bicyclenet - Trailers for sale in the UK by mail order
Bikefix - Trailers and workbikes for sale in London, England
Bike Parts USA - Mail-order supplier of Wald bike baskets in Florida, USA
Bikes and Trailers - Bicycle trailers for children, shopping, load carrying and dogs in Lewes, England
Bike Trailer Shop - On line trailers seller, based in USA
Christiania Smedie - christiania trike and trailer retail in Copenhagen, Denmark
David Hembrow - makes wicker baskets for delivery bikes
Henry Workcycles - wide range of workbikes in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nostalgie Oirschot - range of bakfiets in the Netherlands
Trailers4bikes - Online cargo trailers
Wanky Ex-Im - exporters of indian rickshaws
Velorution.biz - the workbike specialist in London, England
Travel and travel writing Chasing Rickshaws - Lonely Planet book Railbike Tours, Inc - Ride on railbikes in NW USA Bicycles in Mexico City - by Greg Green
TV and Radio Practical bicycles in Amsterdam - Reuters - Video programme on load-carrying bikes in Holland, featuring an interview with Henry Cutler of WorkCycles KBOO.fm - Interview of Robert, Stumptown Pedalers cargo guru
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