I have stopped trying to turn my wife into a cyclist — a bike commuter; more than just the occasional recreational ride. But I haven’t given up on getting her to drive less. All her driving still drives me bonkers. She drives to work, she chauffeurs the kids around, she does the shopping. Not necessarily…
There are quite a few ways to outfit a BOB Trailer. Mike took it to an extreme by decking his BOB Ibex out with a Wandertec SAX Liner, a Greenspeed Rack and Delta Water Bottlecages. The real topper is the wooden fender that makes this one of the coolest looking BOB setups I’ve seen. If…
I get a lot of e-mail from people who make or sell smartphone mounts for bikes. They’d like to have their mounts reviewed. The first problem is, I don’t have a smartphone. I don’t want one. I’m insufferable enough without the ability to fact check any conversation, or to find that video of the man…
This is supposed to be about bike trailers of a particular brand, that carry children, and happen to be on sale right now from my employer. I wasn’t sure how to approach this article until a few minutes ago when I saw a friend of mine post this on Facebook: This is an actual friend…
What is your bike trailer story? How have you moved and been moved by your use of a bike trailer? Send in your photos and stories about your bike trailer or other bike accessory related photos and stories to share and be seen here. The Ladder Pull in Bill’s Words: I have been riding my…
A recent customer asked for a drawing of a dinosaur with a machine gun with is Burley Flatbed Bike Cargo Trailer.We were happy to comply.During the checkout process, use the Instructions field for your requests.
This dog looks right at home in the back of this custom painted BOB Ibex Trailer. I’m sure the Wandertec SAX liner ads to the comfort of the ride. It should be noted that BOB states explicitly that there trailer is for cargo only. Maybe this was just a posed photo while parked. Also of…
Okay, I’ve spent the last hour looking through this year’s Oscar Nominees in the acting and directing categories and doing Google Image searches to see who might be candidates for my effort to get someone to arrive to the event by bike. Yes, that means I just spent an hour, on the clock, looking at…
It’s always great to see all of the clever ways that people rig up there bike trailers for utility and adventure. This one is quite clever and really looks quite natural to the setup of the BOB Trailer. Too big a fish might pull in the whole trailer. If you are looking to hook a…
I can ride my bike with no handlebars… OK, truth be told, I actually can’t ride my bike without handlebars. I knew that handlebar song was crazy… Unlike the Flobots, I do rely on a good set of handlebars to steer, balance, and generally complete my bike. However, handlebars are often not the first thing…
Happy New Year bike commuters, and would-be bike commuters! I asked some of our contributors to send me their resolutions for 2012, this is what I got back: Bob Caravona Has it been two, three or four years ago that we sold our other car and became bike commuters? In any case, since then, as…
Another year has come and gone here at Utility Cycling. It’s been a year of ups and downs. The year started out strong with lots of great posts from myself, Josh Lipton, and Stacey Moses. We made some good progress in the summer towards the Utility Cycling book we’ve been dreaming up for a while….
It was getting late. I knew it would be cold outside. I was starting to think of my commute home, and thinking of what pretext I might have to get a ride home from my wife — a pretext that would not involve an admission that I just didn’t feel like cycling home. Aha! My…
As a purveyor of BOB Trailers, we’ve often looked in disdain at Nashbar’s knockoff single-wheel trailer offering at about half the price. We’ve also spoken and heard about quite a few Nashbar trailer customers that have not been happy with the performance. There must be a few happy customers our there, but we’ve never heard…
At the beginning of this year I went on record with this New Years resolution: I'm going to eliminate as many of the reasons as I can that require my wife to spend time in a car, beginning with the grocery shopping. I may start with some shopping panniers, but ultimately I may have to…
In developing the Big and the Really Big Wandertec BONGOs, we decided to incorporate the rail system, a liner and a waterproof cover. The challenge for the cover was to come up with a simple, sturdy design that was easy to install and remove. One key element we were thinking through was how to keep…
Are you looking for a stocking stuffer for a bike lover? Do you not dare buy a cycling accessory for someone who is very particular, or has an exotic bike? Do you want to instill the love of cycling into a young’un? Do you want to make this the most special holiday ever? We don’t…
If you follow this blog, you may have noticed that we are developing a new version of the Wandertec BONGO Trailer. I’ve posted a few images of the Really Big version of this new design. We are also doing a size that we are just calling Big for those who want a large around town…
I wasn’t a big fan of the Pixar movie Cars. No, it wasn’t because the movie wasn’t about bikes. It was that the underlying message was this: There is no problem in the world so big that a celebrity can’t fix it. The big problem in the movie was that the town of Radiator Springs,…
I hope that you have a cyclist in your family that you get to do some Christmas shopping for. Chances are if you are reading this, that you are a cyclist, but I don’t know what the chances are that that means there is another cyclist close to you who you suspect might be excited…
Before you head over to Amazon.com to buy cycling accessories, do you mind if I gripe about how Amazon.com plays the price-matching game? You don’t mind? Thank you. Previously, I wrote about Minimum Advertised Pricing (MAP), and how it means that bike shops that play by the rules can’t advertise below certain price points, but…
In the midst of our Black Friday thru Cyber Monday sales, we’ve also launched some sales on our trailer-cycles. We have both Adams and Weehoo Trailer Cycles on sale for 10% off through Dec. 13th.This photo was snapped riding along side a bike commuting family that I kept seeing towards the end of the summer….
You may or may not have heard of Small Business Saturday. Today is a great day to support small, local businesses.While we are not local to most of our customers, we can certainly qualify for your patronage today as a small business with a focus on community. And as of this May, we also do…
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations. Now that you’ve fueled up on some good home cooking, like the rest of retail America, we are encouraging you to burn up all those extra calories in a buying frenzy. We’ve got a whole bunch of Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Specials underway. Here is a quick…
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