Archive for the 'Cool bikes' Category

Cargo bikes on NPR

Posted by Erik on December 7th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

Great story here.
–EBR

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Biketopia

Posted by Erik on November 15th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes, Joie de vivre, Our eternal quest for Platinum Status

EBR

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More ideas for Lori

Posted by Erik on November 8th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes, imminent death of car-based culture, opportunity knocks

Pineapple sales:

Mobile dough-mixer (look closely):

Mobile oven:

Mirror transport:

Hamburger shop:

Flavored Coffee sales:

–Erik Ryberg

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Another idea for Lori

Posted by Erik on November 7th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

My friend Lori won the BICAS cargo bike auction and has been casting around for ideas to put her new bike to use. Here’s mine.
–Erik Ryberg

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Bikes at work slideshow

Posted by Erik on November 6th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

Do not miss this amazing streetsblog slideshow of workbikes.
–Erik Ryberg

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I (bike) Bogota

Posted by Erik on November 6th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes, Joie de vivre, Our eternal quest for Platinum Status, opportunity knocks

What an exhilarating day!
I hired Andres of Bogota Bike Tours to give me a tour of the city. He inquired about my interests and then tailored a full-day (by that I mean nine hours!!) tour of Bogota’s ciclorutas (bike routes) all across the city. We rode many miles today.
Andres [...]

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Snow-cone bike

Posted by Erik on November 4th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

The Xtracycle blender attachment is really cool and everything, but it doesn’t have anything on this hand-cranked snow-cone maker seen today in Plaza de Bolivar.
–Erik Ryberg

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Bike-watching in Colombia

Posted by Erik on November 2nd, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

Some people like to bird-watch. They carry lists around and every time they see a bird they’ve never seen before, they add it to their “life list.”
Well I do that with cargo bikes. Is it so wrong?

I was checking out this guy’s cargo bike while eating one of the empanadas he was selling [...]

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Obviously, I need to go to Burning Man next year

Posted by Erik on October 17th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes

Tucson bike lawyer, as my readers know, from time to time visits foreign locales to check out the bike scene there. Last year, for example, I spent two weeks in Mexico City trying to buy a three-wheeled ice bike.
After reviewing the photos Bryan has sent me of Burning Man, I think maybe I should [...]

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Cargo bikes!

Posted by Erik on October 15th, 2009 filed in Cool bikes, Joie de vivre, imminent death of car-based culture

A cargo bike blog somehow related to Xtracycle has just featured two from Tucson — the couple above on their monstrous bakfiets-xtracycle and the Mercurio that BICAS just auctioned off. Check it out! http://www.cargobikegallery.com
Man I love cargo bikes. Has anyone seen the three-wheeled recumbent with the giant rear platform around town? [...]

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