Vintage French randonneuer's and porteurs.

[Imlach]

That's great. @Mickeyspinn - French bike classification warning time. Understood that these bikes can be known as:

- vélo de boucher = butchers bike
- vélo de livreur = courier / delivery bike
- bi-porteur = two wheeled cargo bike (ie. to carry (verb porter) a load)

A three wheeled cargo bike is a tri-porteur, not really native to France, an old name French name is "vélo brouette" which literarily means "wheelbarrow bike".

Would love something like this - I can't think of anything better to carry a four course picnic with a suitable bottle of plonk per course.


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Drinkcycle, Bevvymobile, VeloLeVin

Parched man's bike

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

The drycycle

 

[Woz]

Could even double up as a taxi for your drunken mates - provided you got enough bungy straps to keep the load in place

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

The vomit not so comet

 

[Woz]

Posted earlier, but is better here. Only known video of an utterly mad porteur race in 1930.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Some tough blokes there. Awesome footage.

 

[Woz]

And some tough women.

1929:



1945:



http://www.blackbirdsf.org/courierracing/journaux.html

 

[Woz]

1931 Madness. Sheer madness.

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Even more here, Tri porteurs

http://www.blackbirdsf.org/courierracing/

 

[Guinessisgoodforyou]

Tramlines fcuk that.