Finally: What is this Blog about?

Olá amigos!

Hello friends!

We started in October 2008 collecting information about urban mobility solutions, that are available in Portugal. This lead us to the conclusion, that a lot of work could be done and a lot of products - already available in the rest of Europe - could be interesting for that market to indicate solutions and practical hints. As we realized soon, there is a very active and courageous community in Portugal already working on the subject. There is a big movement in the society that comes along with individual transport, alternative vehicles and traffic solutions. But unfortunately no one out of Portugal noticed this so far.

We have many Blogs, we have a lot of idealistic bike dealers, activities and - last not least - we have a revolutionary bike rental and mobility concept for students! But this is maybe known in some parts of Spain and for sure to some individualists in the rest of Europe. But generally these facts were not so well known as they should be!

 So we decided to use this blog in the beginning as a collecting tool for links, sites, activities that are already known and practiced in Portugal. To tell the rest of the world of bicycle blogs what goes on in this country. Therefore the blog appears mainly in English. To let people from abroad be part of what is going on in Portuguese bike-scene. And to initiate - vice-verse - a interchange of information about bike culture and products.  Of course: PRODUCTS! Means, bikes, accessories, tools, services and so on..
Gotcha! Commercial targets! Yes! But not only for the things that we sell on www.cargobix.com. As well for everyone who feels free to present something really new or innovative or his own company. Take it as a platform and let us see, how it works!

Independent from this we are always looking for guest editors, who are interested in publishing Portuguese content as a additional feature for the future! Subscribe yourself as an author or send us a mail with your suggestion!

So far this Blog will link to other famous bike blogs in the world - I think, I already mentioned some oft them.. ;-)

BTW: recently there was a famous bike race, that the World MUST have noticed! It took place in Copenhagen, a harbour city with not ANY curve in it! Would it be a real challenge to invite Marc from http://www.amsterdamize.com and Colvile Andersen from http://www.copenhagenize.com to shoot this out again in Porto or Lisbon?

Cities with a landscape to fall in love and some decent curves:



 

I will get them!

So far, take a look at this:

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BTW: I know.. we are a little bit delayed with our shedule, but promised:
This was the third (and last announcement).. now content is following.. ;-)

How everything begun...

Picture copyright: Bernd Otten

OK, this post should have been written in the beginning, but creativity not always appears on demand... ;-)

In August 2008 I visited Amsterdam and was impressed by the perfect integration of bicycles and other alternative vehicles in the city structure. Comparing that with the conditions in Portuguese cities (and some others for ex. in Spain) there is missing a decade of development in nearly everything:

Road conditions, bicycle lanes, legislation, car domination and so on...

But on top of all this comes the new and already practised Community-legislation concerning CO2-output and noise pollution.

This will cause an immediate reaction of the city-majors and result in rigorous closing and banning of individual (car-) traffic from the city-centers.

So all this lead to my "URBAN MOBILITY"-Project, that I started in Autumn 2008.

My target, is to collect the already existing knowledge of alternative traffic solutions and make it suitable and feasible for the special Portuguese conditions. To offer traffic solutions to the cities, to develop e-powered vehicles and support their distribution to final customers and for. ex. enterprises and their employees.

For sure, we don’t do this as "Holy Samaritans" but before making money with that, we have to do a lot of basic work. For. ex. to bring together the knowledge of traffic-developers, bicycle-producers and alternative energy fabricators!

This platform on Blogger could be part of a movement that is about to start on the beautiful edge of Europe:

Portugal

Who wants to be part of it, join us!

First Steps so far:

December 08:
E-MOBILITY-SYSTEMS.COM, Lda. was set up as a company, to bring together all options of mobility solutions for bigger cities in Portugal.

January 09:
We started with an E-bike project in Porto to show (and commercialize) already available alternative vehicles.

This includes the use of fold-able electric bicycles and the introduction of a lightweight e-powered cargo bike.

During November 08 till January 09:
We already gathered some experience with the cargo bike of a famous Dutch bike-brand, which you could trace below: