Hasta La Gadget!

You’d be surprised how much you can carry on a bike, and I don’t just mean the site of a huge beer belly shaking over the front wheel of a Berlin commuter bike. Some bikes are made to carry a load, whether it’s the famous Worksman of New York, or the bright-yellow machines ridden by German postal workers in Berlin (again).

But the best cargo bikes are those that have been hacked to achieve a specific load-carrying task. And that’s what you’ll see in this gallery of great cargo-bike mods.

Above:

Bottle-Carrier Bike

Photographer Alain Delorme loves crazy Chinese cyclists so much, he put together a whole project documenting the insanely overloaded cargo bikes in Shanghai. The images look to have had a certain amount of photoshopping applied, but if you have ever visited China, you’ll know that these precarious precipices are real enough.

Photo credit: Alain Delorme