"BINNOCHIO" CARGO BIKE
These cargo bikes evoke a conversation.They get folks talking about alternative and more efficient modes of transportation in our car centric city. They're a catalyst for change and can be a great tool for radical transformation and community building.
What if we didn’t have to drive to the store/park/work?
What if my daily commute brought me joy and awe?
What if my transportation was a piece of art an act of activism?
What if we didn’t have to drive to the store/park/work?
What if my daily commute brought me joy and awe?
What if my transportation was a piece of art an act of activism?
The Binnochio Cargo bike is A project by Re: Ciclos. The frame was welded and designed by Jimmy Lizama and his team at Re:Ciclos. The cargo bay panels were sewn and designed by Nils-Erik Hilliard from one of my recycled drop cloths and billboard vinyls. I designed and painted the art for the cargo bay and painted the frame.
Re:Ciclos is a non-profit project of CRSP dedicated to creating wider access to cargo bicycle technology and empowerment of youth in black and brown communities by exposure to fabrication, mechanics, advocacy, outreach, and community. They build cargo bicycles with youth interns in order to provide this practical liberating technology to people in community and community organizations.
Re:Ciclos advocates for bicycle technology in the form of cargo bicycles because we feel that the pace, lifestyle and community that can be built around a bicycle-centric urban landscape, as opposed to a car-centric landscape, is more efficient, equitable, accessible and healthy (for both ourselves and the world’s systems). To change these systems in order to have a bicycle-centric human environment, changes would necessarily have to occur across the entire spectrum of local and global systems to accommodate this change.
If we set the pace of everyday life to the more slowed-down rhythm and practical travel distances of the bicycle, the whole organization of urban communities and beyond would be radically different and, we argue, contribute to a more equitable and just society. This is what we are advocating for, not just the bicycle, but for the world a bicycle centric society could be. In order to achieve any sort of functional bicycle centric society, the cargo bicycle and its proliferation is a necessity. Which is the crux of why Re:Ciclos exists and works to create more access to this amazing technology.
lareciclos.org/about-us/
Re:Ciclos advocates for bicycle technology in the form of cargo bicycles because we feel that the pace, lifestyle and community that can be built around a bicycle-centric urban landscape, as opposed to a car-centric landscape, is more efficient, equitable, accessible and healthy (for both ourselves and the world’s systems). To change these systems in order to have a bicycle-centric human environment, changes would necessarily have to occur across the entire spectrum of local and global systems to accommodate this change.
If we set the pace of everyday life to the more slowed-down rhythm and practical travel distances of the bicycle, the whole organization of urban communities and beyond would be radically different and, we argue, contribute to a more equitable and just society. This is what we are advocating for, not just the bicycle, but for the world a bicycle centric society could be. In order to achieve any sort of functional bicycle centric society, the cargo bicycle and its proliferation is a necessity. Which is the crux of why Re:Ciclos exists and works to create more access to this amazing technology.
lareciclos.org/about-us/