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<p>Heidi Lappetito pedals her cargo bike past a parked beer truck as she hauls a trailer loaded with frozen salmon in Port Townsend, Wash. Nearly all deliveries of the wild Pacific salmon the Cape Cleare Fishery makes to its local customers is done by cargo bikes hauling loads of up to 180 pounds, about five miles into town.</p>

<p>Heidi Lappetito pedals her cargo bike past a parked beer truck as she hauls a trailer loaded with frozen salmon in Port Townsend, Wash. Nearly all deliveries of the wild Pacific salmon the Cape Cleare Fishery makes to its local customers is done by cargo bikes hauling loads of up to 180 pounds, about five miles into town.</p>

December 7, 2013

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Cargo bikes: New minivan for cycling families
December 7, 2013 8 p.m.

Cargo bikes: New minivan for cycling families

Bicycles being used for schlepping kids to school, hauling groceries, running errands, making deliveries

SEATTLE - One fisherman uses a bike to deliver hundreds of pounds of salmon to local markets. A mom who regularly shuttles her two kids around town once tried to haul a twin mattress home. And some companies are using the bikes to deliver beer kegs or pick up recycling.