Where Urban Cycling Meets Community Café
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When we started Pedaal, we had already spent much of our working lives importing European bicycles to North America. It began with the Netherlands, where riding a bicycle is about as ordinary as having a cup of coffee. That’s became our mission, which is why our name, Pedaal, is Dutch. However, our mission took us...
August is when families begin thinking seriously about cargo bikes. September is approaching, children are heading back to school and families are once again confronting the traffic, parking and short car trips that organize so much of the school year. That’s where a cargo bike changes the rules of the game. Gridlock becomes movement; parking...
We believe Bullitt makes the best cargo bike in the world because its modular flatbed can become whatever you need it to be. The same bicycle can deliver packages for FedEx, carry children to school, collect groceries on the way home and become a genuinely enjoyable commuter once the children begin riding independently. Unlike its...
When Andrew Ritchie designed the Brompton, it was a direct refusal of planned obsolescence. In many ways, that was the marketing, because if there was one thing Ritchie resisted, it was marketing itself. Brompton is a bike built to last a lifetime, maybe several. It is engineered to be continually repairable, a durable argument against...
The Bullitt cargo bike was borne out of the mid-80s squats of Nørrebro, Copenhagen. In fact, this punk rock origin was a precursor to the sparkling bicycle culture of Copenhagen today. The Bullitt B106 pays tribute to this heritage. Our version of the B106 pays tribute to our own punk rock story. In tribute to...
A visitor from the Netherlands to Toronto would observe an e-bike ecosystem that feels immature or downright out of control. On one hand, they would see bikes they recognize: lighter, highly regulated European e-bikes and cargo bikes that moderate power output to ensure safety in the bike lane. On the other hand, they would see...
