Detailed description (English): From the borrowing shop, anyone can borrow a cargo bike for 1-3 days, free of charge. There are ten options to choose from to fit your transportation needs: three electric box bicycles, one electric box tricycle, three electric basic bicycles, one tandem, one rickshaw, one event bike, and one bike trailer. In order to borrow a bike, you must be over 18 years old and prove your identity with a valid photo ID.
Cargo bike borrowing shop operates in The Civic Center Matara In Jyväskylä, Finland. The borrowing shop is a part of the local sustainable development office JAPA ry’s work, and it got its start-funding from the Finnish Transport Agency‘s subsidy. The borrowing shop is implemented in association with Matara. The aim of Cargo bike borrowing shop is to make cargo bikes available and familiar to everyone. How about taking the kids to daycare or going to the grocery store with a box bike instead of a car? Or if you don’t even have a car, a cargo bike can come in handy if you have to transport heavy items from one place to another.
With a cargo bike even a heavy load or children can be transported easily. There are different kinds of cargo bikes to fit your transportation needs. A box bike is equipped with a transport box that fits two kids or even a large amount of goods conveniently. A transport bike looks like a regular bike, but it’s built to carry even a heavy load, and with different kinds of child seats it can fit also several children. All our bikes are e-bikes, hills and heavy loads are easier to manage.
In order to borrow a bike you check the availability of the bikes from the reservation timetable. On weekdays the bikes can be borrowed for 1-2 days and on weekends for 3 days. On the starting date of your reservation the bike is available from 2 pm onwards, and on the last date it should be returned by 12, like hotel hours!
Cargo bike borrowing shop operates during the summer and autumn months as long as weather allows it to drive safely. Two of the regular e-bikes also have winter tires.
Target group(s): Open to all public
Objectives: The aim of Cargo bike borrowing shop is to make cargo bikes available and familiar to everyone. We believe that when you can try a cargo bike in your everyday life a longer period of time, it is easier to decide if you want to have your own, and which kind would suit your life.
Partner: Civic Center Matara
Part of the funding from the Finnish Transport Agency (on behalf of the Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications)