The “War on Cars” is a manipulative framing. And the media can’t resist regurgitating a “War on” anything. So as I listened to this recent NPR piece, “Motorists To Urban Planners: Stay In Your Lane,” I was ready to be annoyed, and NPR delivered. The report leads with a reference to a claimed “war on…
Weehoo iGo Trailer-Cycles are now 15% off thru July 31st at Bike Kid Shop! Want to learn more about Weehoo? President Stephen Rodgers took some time to answer a few questions for us in order to paint a more well-rounded picture of Weehoo, its leaders, and its values. BSH: When was your company founded?SR: August 2008 BSH:…
I consider myself The World’s Leading Expert on BionX Retrofits… who has never actually done a retrofit himself. In a previous post, I talked about the natural ride of BionX — and I referred to bikes that come from the manufacturer with the BionX system already installed. But what about someone who wants to put…
Green Riders Kenny and Jamie’s “sustainable transport odyssey” from Thailand to Bali summed up: Six weeks. Two bamboo bikes. A camera. A continent of environmental stories, struggles and successes. Plus, several thousand kilometers of twisted little roads stringing it all together. These guys are really putting their Ortlieb gear, Kenda tires, and legs to the…
On Sunday I picked a fight with a stranger. It wasn’t a fair fight. My retelling of it won’t make it fair, and won’t make it right. Our frequent contributor Tom Bowden posted this photo to Facebook: The photo was accompanied by this bit of Bowden snark: To those who say roads are for cars…
The Cycling Movement in Puerto Rico
Via BikeTrailerShop.com Email: I have been researching trailers and am seriously considering your Bongo model..a couple of reasons: made in the USA, 20 in wheels, and the hitch mount style I’ve read that a chainstay mount is superior to the axle mount. Do you have a configuration for a chainstay mount available? For the Wandertec…
Dan kicked off his summer with a 6-week bike tour on Kauai – cycling from one end of the island to the other. I had everything I needed on my Ibex trailer (boogie board, fins, tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad…etc.) and it performed great over everything and everywhere I went. I got compliments on it…
Seth Muller is a writer for Mountain Living Magazine who does as much of his job as possible by bike — not the writing part, which he probably does sitting in a chair with a computer in front of him — but the part where he rides around reporting, and interviewing people, like me. I…
I’m a fan of the BionX Electric Assist System for bikes — whether it’s on a retrofitted bike, or integrated on a bike right from the factory. Make that, especially if it comes on a bike right from the factory. (I’ve never done a BionX retrofit, but I think I could. Seems easy. I’ll explain…
Another Knife Sharpening Bike
BluesCat is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, who originally returned to bicycling in 2002 in order to help his son get the Boy Scout Cycling merit badge. His bikes sat idle until the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 per gallon. Since then, he has become active cycling, day-touring, commuting by…
This is our newsletter for the month.If you’d like to get this delivered to you inbox, subscribe here. We’ve had a variety of shopping panniers, but now we’ve listed them all together on one Shopping Panniers page.(Warning: May lead to cravings for long tail bikes.)Here is part of our selection:Banjo Brothers Folding Grocery Bag PannierGetting…
Ma Bicyclette
Alex sent in this photo of his DIY solution to child transport in an attempt to make something like the FollowMe Tandem. Sort of like an Adams Trail-A-Bike, sort of like a Burley Trailer-Cycle, and according to Alex: “More or less successful.” Let’s hope “more” for the kid’s sake! Also quite the creative use of…
Josh King lives in Seattle, where he commutes by bike every day, rain or shine. He switched to full-time single speed commuting in 2010. You can read his thoughts on going gearless at www.singlespeedseattle.com When you want to unseat the king, you’ve gotta bring your “A game.” The king here? The Ortlieb Back-Roller Classic, the…
San Diego Cycling
A growing mobile food business calls for a full grown mobile kitchen. The top has a metal surface to prepare food from and is held to the flatbed of the trailer with 8 pins. In just minutes it comes apart for use as a flatbed.I also have made a tall bike with barbecue grill, a…
BluesCat is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, who originally returned to bicycling in 2002 in order to help his son get the Boy Scout Cycling merit badge. His bikes sat idle until the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 per gallon. Since then, he has become active cycling, day-touring, commuting by…
Today is Independence Day in America, meaning it’s been 236 years since this country decided to, well, to be a country, and at the same time totally piss off the Kingdom of Great Britain. A couple of days ago was when I left Washington DC after a week long visit. I was particularly happy to…
On the last day of my trip to Washington DC, I had a big agenda. Never mind the record-breaking temperature. It may have been the most stupid day ever to ride all over The District of Columbia, but it was the final day of my three-day membership with Capital Bikeshare, and I intended to get…
Continued from Part 1 So I made it to my destination on a Capital Bikeshare bike, and made my first rookie mistake — not docking the bike at my destination — because the clock won’t stop until you dock. Catchy, huh? When I figured out that the nearest bikeshare station was practically in sight, I…
Well here I am, a hick from Arizony in Washinton DC. Got a mess’a things to do this week. One of ‘ums is I’m a gonna hunt down a feller who can fix this iTelephone contraption whats got itself all busted ‘cross the top. I hear tell there’s a Chinaman down yonder alleyway can put…
Jen Petersen’s NYC Biking Story
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