While speaking with Jon Maroney at the last Mobile Portland event, he mentioned that he was hoping to get a rickshaw or similar pedal-powered vehicle for picking up clients from the airport. Jon, I think I’ve found your transport. The highly convertable Cycles M
aximus Trike seems like the perfect fit for bike-friendly Portland.
Now who’s going to import it? Clever Cylces? This seems right up their alley.
[Via Bike Portland] Cyldesdales coming to the Cross Crusade. I qualify for this category. I wonder if there is a cyclocross bike loaner program for us beefy riders? That’s a lot of extra stress on the bike!
Note to anyone concerned for my health: I weigh considerably less than when I was a offensive lineman on my high school football team when I weighed in excess of 260 pounds. My svelter self is in large part due to cycling and the calories I burn commuting to work and riding on the weekends. With my 6′ 3″ frame, I doubt I could ever weigh less than 200 pounds. That said, I could stand to lose about 10 pounds right now as my commute-by-bike options have been hampered by the kids’ new school schedule.
A couple clydesdale races might be just the ticket for burning off some calories and raising the endorphine levels a bit.
So it took nearly a month to make it to school by bike again. Nearly killing your child by not attaching the trail-a-bike correctly can do things like that to your schedule.
Someday I really will post pictures of our biking arrangement.
Two words: freakin’ cool. [via Treehugger]
Yesterday represents the first time that my kids and I biked to school. As a long time advocate of biking whenever possible, this was really cool to get my 8 and 6 year olds out in the fast lane–well, 8 mph is not exactly fast. (more…)