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cargobike.jetzt, 2022/09/27
Reading time 5:30 minutes

Cargo bike on the test stand: Let's be vigilant and professional!

Guest article: Bicycle tester Dirk Zedler about the cargo bike boom, special duty of care when transporting children and sensational crash tests by ADAC and co.

Riding fun and safety on cargo bikes must go hand in hand. cargobike.jetzt therefore reported on the EN standard for cargo bikes that is being worked out, about the brochure of the German Federal Highway Research Institute for safe children transport (Bundesanstalt für Straßenwesen für sicheren Kindertransport) and das scandalous ADAC crash test video. Please read hereafter a guest article by Dirk Zedler, one of Germany’s most prominent bicycle testers.
Dirk Zedler is sworn in bicycle expert and founder of Zedler-Institut für Fahrradtechnik und -Sicherheit. Numerous cargo bikes pass through his test lab in Ludwigsburg. We document Dirk Zedler’s article published in English in July 2022 in the Eurobike Show Daily. It is based on a lecture held by Dirk Zedler on the occasion of the Cargobike Academy at the Eurobike Show organised by cargobike.jetzt in 2020.
Enjoy reading and always keep in mind: riding fun and safety belong together”.

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Photo: German Federal Highway Research Institute

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