wooden pedalcar: Cargobike Race Berlin

Hello folks.

Friday a week ago we made it to Berlin to meet our friends Andreas and Steffi.

We spent three hours on the Autobahn with our old truck and the velocar safely tied onto the truck bed

Saturday we joined the "Velo Berlin" bicycle fair.

The Cargobike Fans Berlin have organized a race there, in which I wanted to participate.

Despite the rather cold and rainy weather it was great fun to meet all these crazy people.

A great variety of bikes were gathered:

Rickshaws, Long Johns, cargo trikes (one leaning trike), longtail bikes and another four wheeler.

The drivers had to start in two divisions. two wheelers and three/four wheelers.

All had to complete one lap with the empty bike, then loading their bikes with two water containers, two bundles of newspapers and three short plastic pipes.

Due to two low ramps, which were set as chicanes on the race track, all had the choice to pass them at low speed or to risk the loss of some of the cargo stuff, what happens several times.

This resulted in permantly braking and accelerating, what my velocar is not made for.

Every time I passed the ramps, the hard backrest hits my back and this left a painful bruise there.

But because of my deep cargo trunk, nothing worse happened and despite my rather low speed I was able to overtake some of the competitors, who had to pick up their lost cargo from the track

Finally I became second place (of eight, I guess) in the multi track division, behind the mentioned leaning trike, a Veleon.

I had not the slightest chance against that high tech thing.

As always, here are some photos from that weekend:

A short ride with bicycles and velocar around Lake Grunewald