Commuting

Bike to Work Book poll: Choose the cover design

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Tim Grahl (of this site), Carlton Reid, Mikael Colville-Anderson, Marc von van Woudenberg and David Hembrow have written a Bike To Work guide, and Carlton is hard at work on a cover design. He’s designed so many covers he can’t decide which is best and is asking for your help. Click through here for more [...]

Xtracycle Build : Getting it home

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Arleigh is building, documenting and writing out her build up of a Salsa Ala Carte mountain bike with 650b wheels and a Xtracycle Free Radical Kit.  This is an on going series so stay tuned for more installments.
Late this past week I took delivery of an Xtracycle Free Radical Kit at the shop.  The Xtracycle [...]

Salsa Casseroll : First Impressions

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

In late August I took delivery of a Salsa Casseroll in the single speed variety.  Since then the bike has been my (almost) daily ride.  It has caused me to get rid of my car and be a true car-free commuter and cyclist. There have been transformations of the bike which have been documented well.
Version [...]

The etiquette of bike parking

Monday, October 6th, 2008

James of Bicycle Design sent me a link to this story about the etiquette of bike parking.
With more and more cyclists taking to the roads and designated bike racks in short supply, where they park has tremendous capacity to annoy.
So how can those on two wheels avoid winding up officialdom, pedestrians and even fellow [...]

Bobike child carrier

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Seen at Interibike at the Koolstop booth.

This is one of Bobike’s child carriers. Koolstop distributes them in the United States, so any bike shop that carries Koolstop products should be able to order this for you.
Photo by me.

Brompton folding bikes in the New York Times

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Reporter James Kanter of the New York Times writes about his experience with Brompton folding bikes.

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