We’ve completed our (almost) carbon-free move!
Cool bikes September 24th, 2008
We did our best to make our office move carbon free, but alas, there were one or two items that were too big for the cargo bikes. Not many though! Here’s a picture of Lauren moving her desk in one of the cargo bikes.
We are now at 312 South Convent Avenue, right off of Cushing Street downtown.
–Erik Ryberg
September 24th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
woah.. Congratulations… I guess things change when your gone for 4 months. Hope you like the new place
September 25th, 2008 at 9:12 am
Hey, where did you get those bikes? 1 speed with foot brake?
September 25th, 2008 at 9:53 am
A carbon free office move with “Cargo -Bikes is a great idea! Love those cargo bikes. With a solar panel or two, a battery and a small electric drive motor, they could solve a lot of commercial light delivery problems. Life in the new oil free America may not be so bad after all!
September 25th, 2008 at 10:47 am
They are Mexican bikes, available just across the border in Nogales for about $220.00 each. Lauren and I rode them right off the shop floor and across the border. They didn’t fit through the turnstiles at the pedestrian border crossing so we had to ride them across with the cars. They are single speed, foot brake models. Quite sturdy, too!
EBR
September 27th, 2008 at 7:32 am
Hi Erik,
Fantastic bikes. Kelley and I are down to one tank a month, car-wise. Even in hilly Pullman, you can do most everything on a bike.
Chuck
September 29th, 2008 at 6:29 am
did you ride them up from Mexico?
September 29th, 2008 at 8:50 am
Okay, Erik, when’s the open house at your office? And can we ride our bikes to it ?
September 30th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
Yeah, we need more info on the bikes!! Where in Nogi is the shop? Did you ride them up the frontage road to Tucson? Did customs hastle you? How much weight are they rated for? I want one!
September 30th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Rhiwena — no, we did not ride them up from Nogales and I know where you are going with that: we probably released more carbon driving them home than we saved by using them for the move. I know, I know, I know!
Karlito– We got them at a department store called VH which has recently changed hands and is now something else, but which still sells these bikes. It is on the main road through town that eventually links up with Hwy 19. Ask any local where the old VH was — it is about a mile directly south from the main pedestrian border crossing. I recommend you bring a pump and a few hand tools because they don’t really have them at the store.
I don’t know how much weight they are rated for but it’s a lot. The wheels are steel and cheap but the frame is quite solid. You can easily carry a full-grown person around in one with no worries at all.
–EBR
October 1st, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Karlito- I am not certain, but I think that the name of the department store is Kopel.