Worldbike was founded in 2004 as an organization focused on designing innovative bicycle prototypes to advance development in poor countries. Since then, our work has led to new bike technologies used in small-scale development programs in Cuba, Mexico, Rwanda, Senegal, Thailand and the Congo.

Along the way, Worldbike has published articles on bike design for development, helped establish bike manufacturing and repair shops in developing countries and, most importantly, met and worked with a lot of amazing people and organizations using bicycles for development. Much of our work would have been impossible without them. We’re especially proud that two of the first Worldbike cargo bikes are featured in the Smithsonian National Design Museum, “Design for the Other 90%.”