An eventful year has passed since my first New Year status report. A lot has happened in my life and the cargo biking scene that would have strained my imagination last January. And a few things didn’t happen that I confidently anticipated. I would be thrilled to repeat last year’s progress in 2011, but I’ll try to [...]
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This month marks the one-year anniversary of my cargo bike and my blog. What an interesting year it has been! I realize I’ve already made that point in several recent blog posts, so I won’t repeat myself here. But I will take just a moment to marvel at the timing of this: shortly after I returned to [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Yesterday I took my bike back to the bike shop to replace a brake rotor that was warped and making loud screeching sounds all the time. For awhile, I tried to convince myself this was a great safety feature: everyone could hear me coming for at least a city block. But the joy of riding in near-silence [...] [NOTE: I originally posted this article on May 27, 2010. Since then, new information has become available. I edited this on August 24 to incorporate some of the new developments.] The title of this post might be a tad premature, but today I’m feeling a little more optimistic than I have in recent weeks. That’s partly [...] In my last post, I wrote about a few of the implications of riding my electric cargo bike from a financial and social point of view. Today I’ll tackle another topic that I’ve been pondering: how much extra time do my cargo bike errands cost? My first errand under the stopwatch was picking my kids up [...] Tim from El Paso, Texas asks: One thing that is becoming more apparent to me, is that I need to do more to prepare for peak oil and big bucks for gasoline. To be honest, though, I’m a little intimidated when you say you’ve spent almost $5K on your bike. I wonder if you’ve done a spreadsheet [...] If a picture is worth a thousand words, I’m guessing a video is worth at least a hundred pictures. I’ve been wanting to make a video showing the bike in action for months. Now that I have, it won’t win any awards, but hopefully it will give you an idea of how the bike works [...] |
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