Hello Cargobikers,

Last time was shops – where to buy a cargo bike. This time it's the other half, and it's the one I've wanted to build since the start.

Who rides cargo.

There is now a page for the businesses that actually run cargo bikes. Not the couriers only – the plumbers, the gardeners, the locksmiths, the waste rounds, the bakers. People who looked at a van, did the sums, and bought a bike instead.

194 businesses, 10 trades, 106 towns and cities, 12 countries.

It's organised by trade rather than by city, and that was a measurement rather than a preference: 9 of the 10 trades hold five or more businesses, only 7 towns do. So the town lives on the card, where it belongs.

Here is the part I'm actually proud of. Every single business on that page was checked against its own website. A federation listing a member proves the member joined a federation – it does not prove there is a bike anywhere. So a crawler goes and fetches the business's own site and looks for it saying, in its own words, that it works by bike. 405 businesses went in. 194 came out. Boîtes à Vélo gave us 256 names and 122 of them cleared the bar.

Which means the page is deliberately smaller than the directories it was built from. That's the point of it.

The lists came from people who did the gathering long before we did, and they deserve the credit: Boîtes à Vélo in France, CoopCycle across Europe, the Belgian Cycle Logistics Federation, and RLVD in Germany.

See who rides → opencargo.bike/who-rides

Now the ask, and it's the whole reason I'm writing.

You know one of these businesses. I'm fairly sure of it. The bloke who fixed your boiler and turned up on a Bullitt. The bakery that delivers by bike. The bike shop's own workshop run. The courier you see every morning and have never once thought of as data.

Put them on the map. There's a form at the bottom of the page – business name, website, trade, town. Four things, thirty seconds, and you don't need to be them. If you'd rather just hit reply with a name and a link, that works exactly as well and it comes straight to me.

Add a business → opencargo.bike/who-rides

Nothing you send publishes straight away, to be clear. It joins the same queue as everyone else and gets the same two gates: the automatic check of the site, and then me. Someone has already sent one in, unprompted, which I did not expect and enjoyed a great deal.

The reason I want this to grow is simple. A plumber weighing up six thousand euros of bike does not want a brochure. They want to see eleven other plumbers who already did it, and what those eleven ride. That's the page. It only works if it's big enough to find your own trade in it.

New makers, new parts.

Kattfix (Germany) make one thing and make it properly: a lock that stops someone walking off with your battery. 17 of them now on the site, one per bike – Urban Arrow, Tern, Riese & Müller, Bullitt, Muli, Carqon, Gazelle, Ca Go, i:SY, Velo de Ville – plus two universal ones for bare Bosch and Shimano packs. If you've ever parked an e-cargo bike in a city and walked away feeling slightly wrong about it, that's the itch.

Atwater Atelier in Montréal sew a full frame bag for the Bullitt, and they're our first Canadian maker. Thirteenth country.

Also in: four new bits from Biketechnology – a kickstand adapter, a headlamp holder, a 20" front wheel and a CARGOCA retrofit kit, all for the Bullitt – and a Damper Kit from Larry vs Harry.

That puts us at 47 makers, 13 countries, 361 products. Two weeks ago it was 44, 12 and 338.

And one thing to read.

I wrote up how to choose an e-cargo bike motor, and why it matters rather less than the forums would have you believe. Short version: the motor is the thing everyone argues about and roughly the last thing that will decide whether you're happy with the bike.

Cheers, and thanks for riding cargo.

— Vince

Know a business that runs on cargo bikes? Just hit reply with the name. That's the easiest thing you can do for this project today.