If you read this last week’s Austin Chronicle article about Copenhagen, you’ll realize how primitive Austin’s environmental initiatives are. While earlier this year Austin began a pilot program testing a single bike locker, Copenhagenizer is reporting Copehhagen is introducing lockers to accommodate cargo bikes. If you’ve ever ridden a bakfiets, Xtracycle, or Madsen, you know [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Cargo Bike’
Application for Cargo Framebuilding Apprenticeship opens
A couple of weeks ago when we wrote about the growing list of American builders making Bakfiets, Dutch style box cargo bikes, we mentioned that the Center for Appropriate Transportation in Eugene, OR, offers a five month apprenticeship in cargo bike building. They’ve just opened up registration for their next session which starts July 15 and [...]
Sources for Bakfiets Growing
I’m a big fan of cargo bikes. They add major utility to transportation cycling making the thought of living car-free even more of a reality. You can do a week’s worth of grocery shopping, transport small children or even adults, or pick up a couch. Best of all, you can do all these things while [...]
Metrofiets – handmade utility bikes from Portland, Oregon
Editor’s note: Seattle writer Paul Andrews was kind enough to catch Metrofiets at the Seattle International Bicycle Expo for us and wrote this fantastic article. by Paul Andrews You’re thinking about taking the plunge and ditching the car. But you wonder: How will I shop for groceries? What about the toddlers? And what if I [...]
Olympic track cyclist prefers a utility bike to a track fixie
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 [...]
Xmas Xtracycle
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 [...]
NPR on Worksman Bikes
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 [...]
Bakfiets versus Xtracycle: What’s the best way to haul stuff on a 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 [...]
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 [...]
Time for Austin Bike Blog readers to vote in our contest
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 [...]
