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+- discrete profiles
+  - ngos
+    - look at IT vacancies at gavi etc
+  - startups
+    - events
+      - FONGIT.ch
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+Released March 28, 2020
+https://vimeo.com/ondemand/motherload?autoplay=1
+
+- towing a bike trailer up their hill was too much, so she stopped. (5:15)
+- she lives in Fairfax, CA, birthplace of the mountain bike (Joe Breeze).
+
+## Longtail
+- Ian Grayson (13:33) made longtails in Australia starting 1988
+    - was inspired by what he saw in India
+    - doesn't own a car or a cell phone, got a TV only recently
+- Bruce Neely electrified one in 1990 (Ausralia)
+
+### Xtracycle (17:05)
+- 1998
+- sold 100 in the first year, hoped to get 10,000 (20:30)
+    - no market yet
+- saddled with debt after 20 years
+- redesigned everything
+
+- Ben Sarrazin (Yuba) (17:05) wanted to carry his kayak on a bike
+    - 75% of their market is female
+    - left Xtracycle to start Yuba
+    - top-selling cargo bike brand in France, US, Canada, Australia
+
+# Erik Brohaugh
+- ebrohaugh@gmail.com
+- rural Gambia
+- fights erosion, plants trees, improve agriculture
+- built a cargo bike to get around, it caught on
+- dreams of opening a factory so he can empower locals with bikes "made in Africa"
+
+# Holland (58:00)
+- kids to go to school by themselves by bike
+- "Ika Trading" (sp?), a Dutch lady
+- Amsterdam built up its infrastructure in the 1970s in reaction to bicycle deaths
+
+# Pros
+- save money
+- lose weight
+- feel free
+- be outside
+- less isolated
+    - people
+    - sounds
+    - wind
+- fun
+
+# Barriers
+- aren't you cold?
+- isn't it hard?
+- in the snow?
+- can you carry a heavy load (groceries etc)?
+- are you as mobile?
+- is it safe?
+    - yes, stats say as safe as walking or driving
+    - even safer when taking into considering health benefits
+- "line cutters"
+- "weird"
+- "extreme"
+- road rage
+- mom shaming (55:00)
+    - drivers are more willing to be aggressive with women
+- 1% of Americans ride bikes
+- 54% of Americans think it's unsafe
+- 25% of bike commuters are women
+- the more money you have, the more likely you are to drive
+
+# Applications
+- haul car tires four at a time
+- do agriculture in West Africa
+- disaster relief
+
+# Companies/Entities/Events
+- Metrofiets
+- 2020 Cycles
+- Xtracycle
+- Clever Cycles (imported Bakfiets)
+    - normalized cargo bikes
+    - optimized cargo bikes for families
+- Bicycle Works
+- Cycling Without Age
+- Ika Trading (sp?) (Dutch)
+- Flying Pigeon LA
+- CicLAvia
+    - open streets event in LA, started 2010
+- The New Wheel
+    - 12-month no interest financing
+    - trade-ins (cars, bikes)
+- Disaster Relief Trials: cargo bike race in Portland
+- Rock The Bike
+    - makes power from bikes!
+- LA Cycle Tours
+- Kidical Mass
+
+# Electric Bikes
+- make cargo bikes more accessible
+- $2k cost is added from electric motor
+- very efficient 
+
+# Demographics
+- (in LA) foreign-born people are three times more likely to ride a bike (1:09:09)
+- people of color are moving towards cycling at four times the rate of whites
+- under $20k household income: 7% biking
+  - over $100k: 4%
+
+# Criticisms
+- smug, vain, self-righteous
+- connection to early feminist cycling seems dubious
+
+# Highlights
+- The Finches, six kids and a mom on one cargo bike (48:12) (Portland)
+    - did a media tour after an article about them
+    - they did a coast to coast tour with seven kids!!
+- disaster relief race (1:14:00-1:15:50)
+
+# Takeaways
+- steps to get widespread adoption
+  - make it safe
+  - make it easy
+  - make it normal
+      - turn signals?
+      - brake lights?
+      - regulation
+      - good conduct by cyclists
+  -> persuasion of normies, infrastructure
+  - "enormous revolution that's just beginning"