Check out this crazy event from February 2014, Andreas. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cargo_bike_race_Christchurch_2014

When we arrived in Christchurch about 6 years ago, we brought with us our Danish Nihola cargo bike in a container from Belgium. At this time we were virtually the only ones in ChCh with a cargo bike. People were cheering us on the streets because they had never seen such a ‘thing’ which we found funny and sad at the same time. Such bikes are very common all across north-western Europe, and we really felt we had arrived at the very backwaters of cycling culture. Nobody would actually believe that this was our car-substitute and that we used it for everything from shopping to transporting our kids.

Six years on, it’s fantastic to see more people cycling and a greater variety of bikes including cargo bikes. They are a great alternative to the car! Six years on, we are still a car-free family and seeing more cargos gives me some slight hope for the future of this unfortunately still much too car-dominated town. The MCRs have certainly been contributing to the success and I hope that the council continues its great efforts to make cycling a more pleasant and popular form of commute in ChCh.