WHO RIDES CARGO / BUILDING TRADES

Building trades on cargo bikes

Electricians, plumbers, carpenters and locksmiths arriving by bike is the setup people find hardest to believe, and it is the one most worth documenting. The objection is always the same: the tools. The answer, from the businesses here, is that a city job needs a fraction of what a van carries, and the van was mostly a store cupboard that had to be parked.

The gain is not fuel. It is parking, access, congestion charges, and the twenty minutes at each end of a job spent finding somewhere to leave a vehicle. On short urban jobs that adds up to more calls per day, which is why the switch tends to happen on economics rather than principle.

The kit question here is real, though. A toolbox that survives daily loading is a different object to a school-run box, and locking matters far more. What these businesses ride and fit is recorded below, with the source for each.

28
businesses
11
towns and cities
1
countries
15
setups documented

WHAT THEY RIDE

The setups we could confirm

Documented for 15 of the 28 businesses on this page. Every number below counts businesses, not products, and only the ones we could point at a source for.

Bikes

Accessories

THE BUSINESSES

28 businesses in building trades

Nantes · FR
à4mains
a4mains-services.fr
Toulouse · FR
KOZY SERVICES
kozy-services.fr
Pau · FR
L'électronome
lelectronome.fr
Sausheim · FR
La boîte à M
laboiteam.alsace
Lyon · FR
Label Watt
labelwatt.fr
Confirmed setup
1 item has no source link
Nantes · FR
MATISEO
matiseo.fr
Lyon · FR
Montchat Perché
montchatperche.fr
Confirmed setup
1 item has no source link
Rennes · FR
Vincent Elec'
vincent-elec.fr
Nantes · FR
Ze Plombier
zeplombier.fr

HOW THIS PAGE WAS BUILT

Businesses come from national federations and are then checked against their own websites. A federation listing proves a business joined a federation; it does not prove there is a bike. Roughly half of every list falls away at that step.

The bikes and kit are researched separately, by hand, from each business’s own website and social accounts, and each one links to where we saw it. Where a business has told us its own setup in its own words, that appears on the card without a source link, because the source is the business itself.

Run a building trades business on a cargo bike? Tell us about it. Looking for the gear itself? Start at the catalogue.