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The Guardian on the Christiania tricycle:
After a weekend tootling around on the trike, I decide that it’s perfectly suited to London. I feel less vulnerable than I do on my mountain bike and, despite my initial fears, I never encountered a set of bollards I couldn’t fit through. As I ferry my son to his Sunday afternoon football match, I dare to imagine a future where we all have trikes and spend all day pedalling about with shopping and ringing our bells at each other.
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Article posted Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
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[...] Nice write-up in The Graun for the Christiania (via Velorution) [...]
Sounds like a great future
A Christiania in the paper?
The revolution is coming…
Didn't I try one of your Christiana tricycles at the 'sustainable door to door journey” conference at Saddlers Wells in October?
I found it unnerving, not being able to lean into bends (haven't ridden a trike for 35 years!), but like you say, less vulnerable than a regular bike. There was something of the SUV with pedals about it – great fun and practical.
You can still lean into bends. In fact, you must if you're trying to go around corners very quickly (”quickly” being relative – it is not really the intention of a Christiania to go fast). However, you just lean your body, not the bike.
Cargo bikes and trikes are wonderfully useful things.