As their name implies, XYZ Cargo cycles are built on a Cartesian grid. 

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They're intended to be easy to put together, easy to repair and easy to customize. And the square-tubed cycles, which come in both bike and trike variants, feature something rather unusual up front, as you can see below. Let's start with the bike:

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XYZ CARGO BIKE uses a completely new steering design, resulting in a flat layout of the whole cargo space as well as better handling characteristics. No unnecessary frame parts limit the possibility to carry large pieces of cargo with XYZ CARGO BIKE. Compared to cargo tricycles, XYZ CARGO BIKE is more lightweight and slim, and thus easier to drive.

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While I've never seen that kind of steering mechanism before, the similarly-unusual one on the trike has some precedent and is called Ackermann steering, originally designed over a century ago for horse-drawn carriages.

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Unlike traditional three-wheeled cargo cycles, the XYZ CARGO features a so called Ackermann-steering, which is usually only to be found in cars. This makes the XYZ CARGO easy to control even at high speeds and the maneuverability under heavy loads stays smooth.

Both bike and trike can be modified to carry larger/taller loads (though obviously the trike can do heavier duty):

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The cycles are currently produced only in Hamburg and Copenhagen, but the company's hope is that "All persons should be able to access XYZ CARGOs in a way, that fits both their means and their needs." To that end,

The XYZ CARGO project is pioneering new and fairer methods of production and distribution: We ask ourselves how to give access to XYZ CARGOs to as many people as possible and how to do this in a fair and symbiotic way. We wouldn't try to get the biggest profit, but balance a fee for our work with the costs and the time we have invested….

We offer a range of ways to get hold of a XYZ CARGO: we sell readymade, assembled cycles and we arrange workshops for those who want to build their XYZCARGO themselves. Finally people can also build their XYZ CARGOs from scratch on their own, according to [our Creative Commons license].

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If you're interested in setting up production of XYZ Cargo cycles in whatever part of the world you're in, they're looking for collaborators. Learn more here.

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