My family and I have been back in the U.S. for a little over a year now, after living in Copenhagen for a year. As I’ve mentioned previously, we didn’t have a car in Copenhagen – all our travel was accomplished by bike or occasionally, by bus or subway. When I saw this nicely-produced video [...]
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To avoid developing brake monomania, I’m promising myself that this will be my last post (at least for awhile) on the topic of cargo bike brakes. But I noticed something interesting during my emergency braking tests yesterday: my bike had approximately the same stopping distance when carrying 180 pounds of cargo as it did with no [...] Regular readers of my blog know that I have been worried about cargo bike brakes for the past several months. Yesterday my wife and kids left for a multi-day camping trip, and I decided this would be the perfect time to do some braking experiments with a loaded cargo bike. In my mind, there are two [...] Finally! It has been months – even years – since rumors of an electrically-assisted Ute cargo bike first surfaced on the web. Kona recently posted its 2011 catalog online, and there it was: the Electric Ute in all its beauty. At $2599, Kona has allowed the Yuba elMundo to keep its low-price crown ($2297 including [...] I recently received the following email from a reader: I was researching cargo bikes and just kept seeing your blog pop up. I am very interested in doing a similar set up as yours. I also was interested in elMundo initially. A sidenote on the weight of the elMundo: they are now selling it with the electric [...] |
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