This Bamboo E-Bike Is Your $6K L Train Alternative

WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN -- Your $6,000 transportation alternative to the looming L train shutdown is a bicycle that features a cockpit and a bamboo bin for your bébé.

The Electric Supermarché is hitting Brooklyn bike shops just in time for one of the biggest transit upheavals in Williamsburg's history, and it's about as reasonable a solution as the many others proposed by the MTA.

Manufacturers say the $5,999 bicycle will allow you to cart 300 pounds of stuff up and down the Williamsburg Bridge without becoming a hot sweaty mess for work. They do not say how other cyclists will feel about you taking a small car-sized bike onto the bridge.

The bike comes with a variety of features you will not find on the jam-packed J train you'll otherwise be forced to take during the 15-month closure of the Canarsie Tunnel.

Those features include charged a Bosch Motor, LED lights, hydraulic disc brakes and a bench and rain canopy for the kids.

The Electric Supermarché, courtesy of the California based company Yuba Bikes, is available at 718 Cyclery in Park Slope, Bicycle Habitat in Prospect Heights and Propel on Flushing Avenue near the Brooklyn Navy Yard.

Photo courtesy of Yuba Bikes