There's this trend in Germany....with 'cargo-bikes'. What is a cargo-bike? It's basically a normal bike for the rear half, and for the front.....you have a wheel-barrow type cargo area. You could haul a dog, or a kid or groceries. Battery-type? Yes, or you could get a non-battery type. Cost level? Well....this goes from 1,500 Euro minimum....on up to 6,000 Euro (for the really nice ones).
I sat once at a park next to a bike shop (in Mainz), and viewed a gal who'd come for a test-ride of such a bike. There are two types.....the two wheel version and the three wheel version.
For this test ride....she tried the 3-wheeler....with no issues. But with the two wheeler, she had issues keeping the 'weight' center. It's a bike with around a meter of cargo space in the front of the bike.
So I bring all of this up....because the Green Party talked over this issue of the cargo-bikes this past weekend. They want to push an agenda through the Bundestag....to 'gift' each German around 1,000 Euro. They aren't clear about how much the cargo-bike needs to cost....to get the 'grant' (I would assume that you need to spend at least 4,000 Euro....to get the 1,000 Euro grant).
How popular would this idea be? Unknown. If you asked me how many of these you might see around Wiesbaden on an average day.....I'd say around three-hundred of them. Would more people get into this....for the thousand-Euro deal? Maybe.
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