Former top pro mountain bike racer Dara Marks Marino keeps her personal blog the mama trail regularly updated with posts of her life in Flagstaff. Her in-depth, reflective style covers a wide range of topics and often circles back to her love of cycling. Most of her commuting these days is with a bike child…
“Built this trailer out of scrap wood and an old double jogging stroller. It is primarily for shopping and dragging stuff to the beach. My kids helped paint it. Here I am taking a test ride with my son as ‘cargo’.” Keep on sending in those photos of your bike cargo trailer creations.
Pedal Portland
We’ve heard about a new bike touring bible on the market under the title The Bike Touring Survival Guide. Looks to be a very informative read if you’re gearing up for a big bike touring adventure.
Martin Olav Sabo Bridge
I believe I’ve achieved a new level of bike commuting: commutosis Lately, I’ll be sitting on my butt at a computer — like I am right now, and you probably are too. But I’ll be working away, and I won’t remember immediately how I got to work. Did I drive? And I’ll think for a…
Some great photos of Kent and his daughter enjoying their Croozer Kid for 2. Ordered this Croozer Kid for 2 from bikekidshop.com together with the baby sling. A reasonably good product quality indeed and I like about it’s push-release wheels that fix and dismantles quickly. It’s also so easy to convert between a trailer, a…
Carrying a lock is an annoyance. For most commuters and utility cyclists, there is very little way around it. If you ride from home to work and back everyday, you can leave your lock in your bicycle parking area at work (if you don't need it at home), but if you want to stop for…
Maya Pedal
Our friend Bob, sent over some great detail shots of his seatpost hitches as well as other details of his trailers. A seatpost hitch must rotate both horizontally and vertically to function properly. There are a variety of ways that this can be accomplished through rotating parts or through flexing parts as is done with…
This is Labor Day weekend here in the USA. Much of the rest of the world celebrates International Workers Day in May, but that was a little too commie for President Grover Cleveland. Besides, it conflicts with Bike Month, and everybody knows that Grover Cleveland was huge into Bike Month. Actually, he was just huge….
Our pal Tom from Indiana submitted his photo of his original BOB Trailer, which he still uses regularly. The first BOB’s had extra cross members on the fork and the trailer wheels support and and one less tube on the cargo area. The BOB Fork and Pin closure system had a big upgrade along the…
There is something quite appealing about the look of this PVC bike cargo trailer. It just looks so clean and toy like. It almost looks like candy. Either way, it is an inspired way to put together a bike trailer from low-cost readily available materials. I wonder how it rides and deals with a heavy load…
We were recently contacted by an entrepreneur who has been working hard to bring a new product to market, the Cavery Cab, a single wheeled bike child trailer designed for off-road use. It looks to be a well thought out and solidly built design. In communicating with Cavery Cab, I also got the sense that…
Bicycling at the University of Arizona
If Megan Fitch were a character in a movie, she’d be the 100-pound nerd who, halfway through the film, reveals herself to be a total badass who can crawl through enemy duct work, drop through the vent, incapacitate the security guard with Ninja-Yoga, and then splice the DNA of the terrorist biotoxin rendering it harmless….
Don sent in this great photo of his parrot adapter stand perched on the back of his seatpost rack. With the parrot dominating the rear storage of the rack, it looks as if Don has to ride a bit heavy loaded with a milk crate on his Old Man Mountain Rack and an Arkel handlebar…
Career Courier Bike Messenger Documentary
Jaimie Robinson is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Chicago. Jaimie commutes by bike every possible day along Chicago’s Lake Shore bike path. She is a regular writer for Chicago Bridge, a blog for professionals working in the field of aging. Don't be fooled by the seemingly stuffy name, Eva’s Office Pannier. Not only is this…
I don’t do roundup posts too often anymore. They’re hard. But in the last week, we’ve had a spate of exposure outside of Commute by Bike. Tom Bowden has a Dream In Tom Bowden‘s guest opinion in Richmond BizSense, he dreams of the ultimate cycling paradise city. A city that would make Portland, Boulder, Copenhagen,…
There is a GPS chip in this beautiful looking cargo bike to help with theft prevention! Perhaps in a few years this will start becoming standard issue for cargo bikes and bikes of all stripes.From the manufacturer: Sanitov Studio is happy to introduce our Cargo-bicycle Concept and the Campaign Go Bicycle Before Its Too Late….
Capital Bikeshare Success Story
It's been a strange week for residents of Virginia and Washington, DC. In a few instances, a tragic week. When I awoke on Tuesday morning in the nation's capital, I never expected to experience an earthquake and days of hurricane warnings over the following five days. But, amid a chaotic week of natural disasters, Capital…
Todd stopped by the shop to brainstorm the best setup for an Old Man Mountain Rack on his Surly Pugsley. While we do offer a Cold Springs setup to fit the Pugsley, Todd wasn’t impressed with the setup and had some ideas for improving it. We brainstormed the idea back and forth a bit and…
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