Cargo Bikes are the new SUVs

Cargo bikes are the new SUVs: Sustainable Urban Vehicles!

Share your pictures of hauling big or odd loads and passengers, and use the hashtags: #maxQuaxing #cargobikes #quaxing.

Maxquaxing for everyone

‘Quaxing’ is shopping by bike or public transport - a term that originated here in Aotearoa. Maxquaxing is carrying big loads, odd loads, passengers, trailer-fulls, and generally showing how you don’t necessarily need an outsized motor vehicle for a lot more journeys than many people might assume!

Loads of folks already make the most of their bikes, trikes, trailers, and cargobikes and more for carrying heaps. This is what we hope to illustrate with this campaign.

It makes sense to encourage the creativity, resilience, and adaptiveness of New Zealanders and to normalise journeys by bike when there is stuff to carry or move too.

Maxquaxing for businesses and orgs

Urban transport in New Zealand has a gap when it comes to small to medium logistics. Especially in our towns and cities.

It is becoming normal to see deliveries and last-mile logistics using cargobikes, bike trailers and similar in places overseas. And there are a lot of compelling reasons to expect more of this in future. Forward thinking businesses, orgs, and public services can lead with better, lighter urban logistics. Some first movers we know of are Urgent Couriers in Auckland, Nocar Cargo in Wellington, and Pedals Dunedin.

What are you waiting for?

You might be surprised what you can achieve with a cargobike!