Posts under ‘Cargo and Utility’

For those of you who read this site regularly, you know I’m a big fan of the Xtracycle. Whether its hauling my kids or going head to head with other cargo bikes, the Xtracycle deliveries on its promise of more freedom on two wheels. Plus you gotta love a company that lets its users develop [...]

A few months ago, one of my neighbors spotted me taking my kids to school on our bicycle mini-van, a Trek 7200 with an Xtracycle Free Radical conversion kit and my own home made handlebars for secure child transport. Courtney e-mailed me to let me know she liked our setup and to let me know [...]

Thanks to Ecovelo for alerting me to the latest creative cargo hauling solution developed by an Xtracycle owner. I present the Pizzaloader, probably the best addition to the Xtracycle line up since the Bike Blender.
Xtracycle’s website has detailed instructions on how to build this using an IKEA Gorm Bookshelf, IKEA Lansa Bar w/ Two Screws, and some [...]

Austin Bike Blog reader Frye sends in a very late, but pretty entertaining, tale of carrying a laaarge object on his bike’s front basket. Here’s what he had to say.

This picture was from Thanksgiving day, 2007, when i was still living in Denver.
My friends threw a party at one house the night before and the [...]

I was just over checking out Joe Bike, a Portland distributor of inexpensive utility bikes. In addition to Yuba Mundo and Batavus bikes, Joe imports Flying Pigeon bikes from China and upgrades them with decent brakes and cranks. A Flying Pigeon that stops? What a radical idea!
Anyway on his information page for the Flying Pigeon, [...]

Who needs a car for Christmas errands when I have my Xtracycle Minivan
As has happened the last seven years, this year I waited until a week before Christmas to get a tree. Despite dire warnings from friends of getting a Charlie Brown Christmas tree, things have always worked out. The closest we came to not [...]

Saw this at the Austin Pedicab Alliance blog. A documentary about pedicabers? Sounds pretty good to me. Check it out at their site, and look for more coming soon.

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I’ve been pretty impressed with what people are doing with their bikes lately. From our “What’s the biggest thing you carried on your bike?” contest submissions to TV ads for CSX freight train shipping, we are seeing that so much more is possible with this simple two wheeled vehicle.
So on this vein, I thoroughly enjoyed [...]

I was over at Bike Hugger this morning and came across this cool article about a Xtracycle user who used his bike to transport 195 pounds of clip-n-seal to the post office. Here’s the video proof:
 
This is impressive and makes me sorry it did not make it in the most recent Austin Bike Blog Contest. [...]

This morning’s Weekend Edition of NPR had an interesting story about Worksman Cycles, America’s oldest bike maker still in business. Their focus is cargo, utility, and industrial bikes, and Worksman is one of the few non-custom American bike builders to still build their bikes in the U.S. out of their Queens, NY factory.
The thing I’m [...]