GMG the Dutch company that has been making child bicycle safety seats since 1934, has again won another award. At the biggest bicycle show in the Netherlands FietsVak 2012, that took place in January this year, they won first place! Having not only the nicest booth but also having the booth with the most "Stopping Power". This is yet another award for GMG, who already won more than 7 design awards with their Yepp child bicycle seats since it's introduction in 2009.
Review: Gazelle Cabby Bakfiets Review by Bicycle Fixation
It's nine feet long, more or less, and weighs something in the realm of seventy-five pounds (or around thirty-four kilograms), so you'd think that "Gazelle" might not be so appropriate a name for this extravagant cargo bicycle. But the fact is that in its deliberate way, it is quite a graceful, gliding bike, rolling with majestic insouciance over speed bumps, ruts, and one particular intersection that was torn up for resurfacing weeks ago and has since languished as backers of various competing neighborhood codes battle over the eternal (for LA) question of "asphalt versus concrete. "The Cabby faced this intersection numerous times and simply lolled across it on its 2+ inch tires, even when loaded with boxes of books, shoes, and knickknacks--or even a stack of glass-framed photos, up to 30x40 inches, at one point! Or, for that matter, when carrying wife Gina.
