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> With three wheels these obviously aren't bicycles. Perhaps someone Dutch can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, bakfiets is Dutch for a bin-

> With three wheels these obviously aren't bicycles. Perhaps someone Dutch can correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding, bakfiets is Dutch for a bin-in-the-front style cargo bicycle (Google translates it as "bin bicycle"), and there is also a company that takes its name from this style of bike and makes cargo bikes and trikes in this bin-in-the-front style. I'm referring to the two-wheeled type, ie a bicycle, and I assume everyone else is, since that's what the video is about.

ZeroGravitas 4y ago
I watched this video previously, but if it's the one I'm thinking of he specifically demonstrates that a tricycle is worse than this type of bike for exactly this reason. Yeah, 3:10 - 3:20.
Symbiote 4y ago
Sorry, I didn't watch the video properly. Yes, bakfiets just means "cargo cycle", of any type. The company Bakfiets makes cargo bicycles and cargo tricycles. I've never ridden a cargo bicycle, so I can't comment on handling or stability. The tricycles are much more common in Copenhagen.
- Symbiote 4y ago
  I walked 500m through the city centre and sat at a café for a couple of hours: I counted 11 cargo tricycles and 2 cargo bicycles.
- touisteur 4y ago
  Oh we've tried both and the bicycle cargo is much nicer for most activities, especially the bakfiets ones. We've tried lots of tricycles and I feel they're deathtraps, if you usually drive a bicycle. You need to really steer and when at >20kph, steering without banking, keeping 3 wheels on the ground is very hard, I find. Maybe lack of practice. But in a month of driving a tricycle, getting back to a bicycle cargo was really a contrast. The only thing I'm missing really from tricycles is the canopy, the roof, some of those have. I haven't seen a bakfiets cover high enough for tall-but-young kids, and it's really annoying to resort to ponchos or other garments to keep water away... I'm almost in the mind of building one, if only I was a better woodworker... Buying my second bakfiets short in 2 days, couldn't be happier to fork the cash over...

ZeroGravitas 4y ago

I watched this video previously, but if it's the one I'm thinking of he specifically demonstrates that a tricycle is worse than this type of bike for exactly this reason. Yeah, 3:10 - 3:20.

Symbiote 4y ago

Sorry, I didn't watch the video properly. Yes, bakfiets just means "cargo cycle", of any type. The company Bakfiets makes cargo bicycles and cargo tricycles. I've never ridden a cargo bicycle, so I can't comment on handling or stability. The tricycles are much more common in Copenhagen.

Symbiote 4y ago
I walked 500m through the city centre and sat at a café for a couple of hours: I counted 11 cargo tricycles and 2 cargo bicycles.
touisteur 4y ago
Oh we've tried both and the bicycle cargo is much nicer for most activities, especially the bakfiets ones. We've tried lots of tricycles and I feel they're deathtraps, if you usually drive a bicycle. You need to really steer and when at >20kph, steering without banking, keeping 3 wheels on the ground is very hard, I find. Maybe lack of practice. But in a month of driving a tricycle, getting back to a bicycle cargo was really a contrast. The only thing I'm missing really from tricycles is the canopy, the roof, some of those have. I haven't seen a bakfiets cover high enough for tall-but-young kids, and it's really annoying to resort to ponchos or other garments to keep water away... I'm almost in the mind of building one, if only I was a better woodworker... Buying my second bakfiets short in 2 days, couldn't be happier to fork the cash over...