Posts Tagged ‘Xtracycle’

Marcus is not here this week to do the News Roundup, so I though I’d share some holiday related posts from other blogs to add to our Christmas themed Dumbest Product of the Week and Christmas Tree hauling by bike.  PacificPedalling.com has a article about a pilot program UPS is doing right now to deliver [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve now had my Xtracycle Free Radical Conversion of my Trek 7200 for over a month, using it to shuttle my kids as a bicycle mini-van and do grocery shopping including transporting a 20 pound bag of dog for with a week’s worth of food for my family. In that time, I also test rode [...]

Thank you to everyone who submitted pictures and voted in Austin Bike Blog’s “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. It’s been a blast to see all the ways people have used their bikes to haul big things. Chris from Madison, Wisconsin, our first prize winner, did a hell of a job [...]

For the last 6 weeks, Austin Bike Blog has called for entries in our “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. We got a lot of great submissions which we’ve share with you each week. For some reason people named Mark really like to haul things on their bikes. Now is the [...]

This is it . . . the final week of listing semifinalists in AustinBikeBlog’s “What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. We are still taking entries until midnight CST tomorrow, September 30, so you can still have a chance to win fabulous prizes by submitting your loaded bike photo. Once the submissions are in and [...]

Thoughts on Interbike and transportation cycling The granddaddy North American bike industry trade show, Interbike, kicked off this week, and aside from the the show girls in mini skirts and midriffs, it’s always fun to see new product roll outs and trends in the bike industry. In the past, there has been relatively little in [...]

We’ve got only one more week to go until the end of the entry period for our What’s the biggest thing you’ve carried on your bike?” Contest. If you missed our last semifinalist, you can still take a look at Week 1, Week 2,  Week 3, and Week 4. Here are this week’s semifinalist: Semifinalist [...]

This article is part of our AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog series I’m writing on my recent trip to Portland and my exposure to its bike culture. Look for additional articles later this week. While staying in Portland, I decided I needed to make a pilgrimage to Clever Cycles, one of the bike stores leading the move [...]