FOLDEE is an Australian-designed folding cargo bike created to solve one of the biggest barriers to cargo bike ownership: size. Traditional cargo bikes are incredibly useful, but they're often difficu...

Cargo bikes might not be as big in the States as they are elsewhere in the world, currently, but a few of us at The Radavist swear by them. A new company out of Australia, Foldee, just emerged and debuted its foldable cargo bike... Each Foldee is handcrafted in a small Brunswick workshop in Melbourne, involving Loop Cycles and Gutter Bikes. These unique front loading cargo bikes are built from recycled steel and feature a big, burly hinge just in front of the head tube where the bike can fold, reducing its footprint and making it possible for it to…

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Melbourne designer Olson Hamilton-Smith has won the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator for Foldee, Australia’s first locally made folding cargo bike, championing compact, sustainable transport in a climate-conscious urban future.

The winners of two major Powerhouse design initiatives — the Holdmark Innovation Award and the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator — were announced on Friday, 19 September, at the launch of Sydney Design Week 2025. The $10,000 Holdmark Innovation Award was awarded to architecture firm Hassell for First Building. Industrial designer Olson Hamilton-Smith was named the recipient of the Carl Nielsen Design Accelerator program for his project FOLDEE. Presented by Powerhouse and […]