The Freewheel Cargo team has undergone a shift in ownership this past month, we are now officially a woman owned, family run business.
We are so excited to bring the highest quality service to you and your customers. We strive  to continue our legacy of green transportation, delivery and marketing services.

​Please contact our owner directly at [email protected] and she will be happy to work with you and meet your companies needs.

We are here and ready to help spread the good word about your brand. During these unprecedented times Freewheel Cargo will be the voice to make your branding heard, passing out masks, hand sanitizer and other personal care items would make a lasting impact in todays changed world. 
We are able to use social distancing, masks and gloves in order to safely pass branded merch to the populations you want to target.
​Our big blue cargo tricycles are highly visible and will attract the greatest form of attention. 
Please contact our owners directly through this link or give us a call directly here 
​Freewheel Cargo looks forward to working with you

After a brief hiatus and change of ownership Freewheel Cargo is here to deliver goods, advertise and promote for your business.
We have had successful promotional campaigns this Spring on the Eastside and Downtown Seattle, and are currently taking on advertising campaigns, as well as delivery and fulfillment through our SoDo warehouse.
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You will see our bikes out in force on Seattle streets, look for our big blue cargo bikes full of goods.
Our bikes are environmentally friendly, and keep cars off the busy Seattle streets. This message of sustainability is one our company values. Not only is this delivery method green, it’s incredibly efficient in the downtown corridor where delivery trucks have trouble fighting traffic and parking.
We are hoping to partner with organizations that value socially and environmentally responsible business practices as much as we do.

Please use our contact form to ask any questions about the diverse services we offer.
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We look forward to hearing from you soon-
Tristan, Kris and Freewheel Team

It is incredibly hard to break through in advertising. That's why Freewheel is such an interesting and compelling option for reaching a highly desirable audience in Seattle. Here are what I believe are the top five reasons companies choose to advertise with Freewheel. 

1 – We offer by far most hyper-targeted out of home platform – SLU, Belltown, Cap Hill, Downtown, Pioneer Sq.
 
2 – We get eyeballs like crazy. Our unique bikes get people to look/interact/even take pictures.
 
3 – Come on, what other advertising platform is actually fun and makes people smile???
 
4 – Care about sustainability?  We’re moving goods with bikes instead of trucks. What a cool, green, zero emissions mobile ad platform!
 
5 – A brand’s image on our bike is readily amplified, shared on social media.
 
Right now we're booked through the end of the summer. So ping us for our rate card and to book space for this fall – [email protected].

Dan Kohler
Freewheel CEO

Dan: What’s the basic story behind Guayaki?
 
John: Guayaki was started in San Luis Obispo, California nearly 20 years ago. When David Karr was introduced to yerba mate by Alex Prior—an Argentinean (and so much more than that) attending Cal Poly in SLO. Alex and David brought this magical plant to North America and really introduced it to the market, they are pretty much the present day OGs of the North American yerba mate world. They started by importing loose leaf yerba mate and driving around in a series of RVs, serving it to people at farmer’s markets and natural foods stores.

Now in the present day, we still have top-shelf organic, fair-trade certified loose leaf yerba mate, but we also sell RTD’s (industry speak for “ready to drink”) bottles, cans, sparkling cans, and even “shots” of concentrated yerba mate for on-the-go. The North American market has really embraced mate available in the ready-to-drink style. Since introducing the cans and bottles, Guayaki has seen widespread growth.
 
Guayaki’s entire business model is built upon “Market Driven Restoration.” Basically, what this means is that we work directly with the indigenous people of the South Atlantic Rainforest to preserve their forests. Unfortunately, the indigenous people such as the Ache Guayaki (where Guayaki’s name comes from) are given a brutal choice to sell their land to logging companies who will clear cut the forest and then it’s typically converted to pasture land for cattle. Once the cattle completely degrade the land, it’s then typically used for growing GMO soy or corn. When they sell the land, it’s gone and they get a one-time buy off. Guayaki is giving them, what I would call, a choice of hope and prosperity. Instead of losing their land, Guayaki is enabling them to keep their land and gain income from keeping the forest intact.

Yerba mate is a small tree or shrub that is native to the rainforest. The leaves and stems are harvested and purchased at a “fair-trade” price by Guayaki. “Fair trade” essentially means that the people who produce a product are being paid a living wage which is typically about three times the market rate.
 
Dan: For folks that aren’t familiar, why should they try Yerba Mate?
 
John: Simply put: it makes you feel good. When consumed, yerba mate gives a really clean awareness without any crashing or jitteriness. It’s one of things that you have to try it in order to see what it’s all about. 
 
Dan: For fans, what kind of new products and offerings should they check out?
 
John: You may have to find us at a music festival or a big gathering and meet us. I’m sure we will have something to share with you that you’ve never tried. It’s like a scavenger hunt!
 
Dan: You seem to love working for Guayaki. What do you actually do?
 
John: I am a Cebador. “Cebador” basically means “server.” That’s the core point and focus of my work. I serve yerba mate to all those who want to find out about why it’s such a magical plant. Sometimes that means doing account visits or setting up my bar at a music festival and putting cans in the hands of people in need of clean energy.
 
Dan: How do you prefer your Yerba Mate?
 
John: In South America, especially in countries like Argentina, they traditionally drink yerba mate using a gourd and a metal straw, called a “bombilla,” that has a filter at the end. Mate drinkers carry around a thermos with hot water and pour it over the loose leaf in the gourd. For myself, I have been pretty hooked on putting cloves, ginger, star anise, and turmeric in my thermos and pouring it over my mate. It’s pretty magical. I drink a ton of Guayaki Biodynamic yerba mate and that’s what I have in my gourd most days.

This new Portland Food Hub is truly innovative. As an urban sustainable food and distribution hub, it is solving critical scale, resource and delivery challenges within the local and sustainable food economy.

Over the last two years I've talked with countless Seattle area growers and artisan producers and it's clear we could benefit from this model.  I'm currently spending a portion of my time reaching out to policy makers and key folks working on livability, freight and congestion issues to lay the groundwork and vision for Seattle to embrace and lead with urban sustainable distribution.

We may set up a roundtable soon. Let me know if you want to join the conversation. 

Dan Kohler
Freewheel CEO

Seattle's Pronto bikeshare program is not yet a huge success in terms of ridership. That said, I believe it's absolutely worth investing public dollars to give it time to build out and grow. A vibrant, modern, sustainable urban city needs a variety of transit options including bikeshare. So I'm glad the city council took action to save the program and make it work better moving forward.  This piece on the Urbanist blog is worth a read on how the Seattle Times has been unfairly critical of the program given the costs and benefits of bikeshare vs. other transit priorities. 

Dan Kohler
Freewheel CEO