I recently attended the International Cargo Bike festival in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. It is striking how much the technology has moved on in the last 12 months. There was a whole host of cycle powered and vehicles present and I had the opportunity to ride several new vehicles which are either in prototype or […]
Recently, Last Mile Leeds has been taking on a new revenue stream, with bulk distribution of magazines across the city centre. We were first approached by ‘The Professional’ magazine to distribute their inaugural issue to every office premises we could find! Over the space of four days we delivered 60 boxes of magazines (totalling about […]
I drove to London this week to collect two new additions to our fleet of cargobikes. We haven’t taken our own pictures yet, but you can see that these Bella Bikes have a huge cargo box and possibly the most unusual steering mechanism seen on a cargobike. The rear wheel steering creates an incredibly manoeuverable […]
Cycles Maximus have just revealed the first pictures of their new prototype. Having chatted to them about their new offering I understand that the designer of the original Maximus is behind this latest version, but there has been a significant departure from traditional designs with integration of a space frame. This suggests a complete rethink […]
We are only too aware that basing our business in a Safestore doesn’t necessarily give an impression of permanence. The nature of self-storage businesses is such that they are particularly attractive to those who want ‘space’ for an indefinite period, with no strings attached. In actual fact Safestore offers much more and there are good […]
On 14th July 2012, Last Mile Leeds attended the inaugural meeting of the European Cyclelogistics Federation. Their website describes the federation thus: The European Cycle Logistics Federation is a professional body which represents and supports the needs of cycle logistics companies across Europe. The Federation is a membership organisation for: Established cycle logistics businesses (eg. delivery […]
