[Andy Dyson]

Check out these clips. Back is an old 80s MTB, front is .035 and .049 4130. Platform is plywood. Front wheel is 16". Front fork is cut down 26" fork. I shot this video over the last couple of weeks. Design is from Beehive collective of Maine. I didn't make this bike because I already use a trailer, but it does make for an appealing spectacle, and can hold a beer keg or a person and their bike pretty comfortably.
The cool thing about this design as compared to similar ones is the partial re-use of junked bike tubing and the truss construction of the bottom tube. Cheaper than comparable length of 2" tubing, stronger, too.

"Hitching a ride on a cargo bike" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vjl3_VAqOk)

"Don't drink and ride" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653M5poASXQ)

Philly will soon be populated by about a dozen of these things. Bikes are being produced in Philly's secret apocalypse survival transportation lab. There's one on a cross country ride, too.

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[StephenH]

Looks workable, although you can't tell much about it from the clips. I suspect beer would take back seat in apocalyptic circumstances, though.

[AllenG]

Bikes are being produced in Philly's secret apocalypse survival transportation lab.

Would that be the Hangzhou Bicycle Works, Hangzhou, China?

[Andy Dyson]

Would that be the Hangzhou Bicycle Works, Hangzhou, China?

That's over my head, AllenG. Sounds like a place that would make bikes, but this one was resurrected from an 80s bike at the east end of 'Merica's rust belt and painted with the finest Krylon available.