The Car-Replacement Bicycle (the bakfiets)

Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters reach for it whenever cargo bikes come up as a practical car replacement for families.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Not Just Bikes

Topic

cargo bikes

Format

explainer

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

16

Recommendation years in dataset

2022–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• I didn't watch the whole thing, but did she mention electric bikes? IMO, Electric cars, or cars in general, are just fine. We just did a family road-trip around Denmark with our Ioniq 5 and it's absolutely perfect for that. The thing is, we should …

• I suggest you watch this video[1] by the awesome channel "Not Just Bikes". Bakfiets are a dutch cargo bike you can literally use for 99% of all your errands. People in a city do not need personal cars. And even Cargo bikes are only useful …

• I had my mind blown about Dutch-style cargo ebikes, bakfietsen . The cool thing is that you can use the bikes to haul cargo, or put three kids in the front in special harnesses when you need to: [VIDEO]