Workbike
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A workbike is a bicycle built for some purpose other than strictly human transportation.
The evolution of workbikes parallels that of normal bicycles. The bicycle developed in the heart of the industry that made carts for working purposes. The first workbikes were used for delivering mail, bread, milk etc.
With the domination of the combustion engine after World War II, in wealthy countries workbikes were relegated to factory floor duties and public park novelties such as ice cream bikes. In the rest of the world, they continued to be manufactured and heavily used. In the 1980's in Europe, and the 1990's in the US, ecologically-minded designers and small-scale manufacturers initiated a revival of the workbike manufacturing sector.
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