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Friday Film Fun: Bike pulls car

The bicycle is the most efficient form of transportation man ever created. Add this clip to further proof that bikes can do a lot more than we think.

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Art of the Xtracycle

My wife and I had great time this weekend putting our Xtracycle Free Radical conversion to work hauling our weekly purchase of groceries as well as our kids. Based on the amount of milk we have to buy to make it through the week, this was no small task. We got to try out our [...]

First Impressions: Xtracycle FreeRadical convertion kit

The new Xtracycle is here! The new Xtracycle is here!
Yes, I like Steve Martin in The Jerk, am now somebody. My Xtracycle FreeRadical kit arrived yesterday evening and I immediately went to work converting my old Trek 7200 hybrid into a true S.U.B, Sports Utility Bicycle.
It took me about two hours to fully install the [...]

The Mailout

  
The mailout – loaded bike 3, originally uploaded by austinbikeblog.
200 manila folders, packed with items we needed to send out for work, loaded into the panniers and the box on top, secured with a cargo net. Was it heavy? Nope, not that heavy (I have no idea how much weight was added, but we’re talking [...]