Posts Tagged ‘Xtracycle’

My experience: Yuba sent me a Mundo 21 speed with lots of accessories to test, and I’ve been riding it several times a week for 6 weeks.
Build Quality: 3.5/5
Function: 4.5/5
Style: 2/5
Overall: 4/5
Availability: Yuba is actively looking for an Austin dealer but for now you must order online at the Yuba site. A stripped down 6 [...]

“Bike building is a lot like the Internet. They both involve a series of tubes.” Elliott McFadden,Violet Crown Cycles
In April during one of my first ventures to the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market with the Violet Crown Cycles tent, I met an individual who loved the look and functionality of my Ferguson city bikes but really [...]

Today is the first day of school for Austin K-12 students and is the first day of kindergarten for my son Miles. Unlike the vast majority of children in town, Miles will not be going to school in a car. Instead, he will be riding everyday on my wife’s Xtracycle in defiance of a recent [...]

One thing that’s been great since we started this site is that we’ve met a lot of great writers from bike sites here in Austin and beyond. Just Monday, for example, we met the writer of local blog Cyclebum.
A couple of the best bloggers we’ve met so far are Anne and Tim from the Seattle [...]

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 [...]

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 packages [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]