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2009 Advocacy Award Winners from Alliance for Biking & Walking
Washington D.C – Earlier tonight 6 organiziations and individuals were awarded a 2009 Advocacy Award from the Alliance for Biking & Walking (formerly The Thunderhead Alliance.) Below is the press released emailed to us tonight. Washington Area Bicyclist Association(WABA), is being honored with the 2009 Advocacy Organization of the Year Award for its progress advancing…
Minnehaha Medium Canvas Saddle Bag
Minnehaha Canvas Saddle Bag Size : Medium Price : $69.99 Details : Max. Dimensions: 9″L x 9″H x 11″W – 650 cubic inches / 10L Thick hardwood dowel inside supports heavy loads Main panel of bag is a durable sandwich of 1 1/2 layers of 18oz. canvas, thin padding, and an off-white canvas liner for…
Bike Racing Season Warming Up
The Spring Season is starting to warm up and I though I’d give a few shouts of good luck to a few of my favorite racers. My sister is recovering from knee surgery last fall and hopefully going to be back in full form in the next few months. Have a look at her Missing…
Step-by-step – BOB Ibex
Step-by-step – BOB Ibex Welcome to the Step-by-step guild to assembling the BOB Ibex. The Ibex offers the rider the same towing capacity and maneuverability as the BOB Yak but provides 3 of travel for bombing curbs and pounding your favorite back roads with cargo in tow. Before starting the assembly of the Ibex you…
Lock Your Bike Up
Lock your whole bike, not just the rim and tire! Megan posted this photo on her Flickr site and boy did it catch me off guard. Having seen many wheels or frames left rotting due to mis-lock use I’ve never seen spokes cut out of a wheel to get the bike. Here are some great…
Do You Believe in Bike Trailers?
If you do there is a great opportunity to work at the leading Bike Trailer resource and shop. By following Bike Trailer Shop and their blog I have learned new things, product and watched adventures. We are currently hiring. We are looking for someone who is interested in becoming a part of growing our business….
Position Available at Bike Trailer Shop
Bike Trailer Shop is gearing up for the season ahead and looking to bring another person on board. From the About Us page of Bike Trailer Shop: “We are currently hiring. We are looking for someone who is interested in becoming a part of growing our business. The core of our business involves our online…
BOB vs. Extrawheel Sale
We’re doing a head-to-head Single Wheeled bike trailer sale at BikeTrailerShop.com. Check out the deals we are offering on the BOB Yak & BOB Ibex trailers and the new Extrawheel Voyager through March 22nd. By putting these trailers on special at the same time, we thought it was a great opportunity to compare and contrast…
A fendered bike is a happy bike
This is Levi Leipheimer’s carbon fiber, 18 lb custom built rain bike. Road geometry, disc brakes, SRAM Red components, SRM wireless PowerMeter and Fenders , of course. Check out the multiple mount points for the fender stays front and rear. Professional race cyclist Levi Leipheimer rides around the hills of Santa Rosa, California. It’s often…
Commuter Checks for bicycling now available
All of the pre-tax employee transit benefits I’ve seen have been in the form of “Commuter Check” programs that are outsourced to third party benefit providers hired by human resources departments to handle the paperwork and distribute the transit benefits in the form of “Commuter Checks” that are redeemable at transit agencies. One of these…
Salsa CroMoto Stem Recall
Salsa Cycles is working with the Consumer Products Safety Commission on a recall of the CroMoto S.U.L. stem. Please see the attached letter from Salsa General Manager Jason Boucher and the press release from the CPSC. Salsa is committed to designing and manufacturing high quality, safe bicycle products. We are extremely disappointed that this situation…
Torker Cargo-T
Take a look at the new Torker Cargo-T bicycle available from your Local Bike Shop in the United States. Seattle Bike Supply has apparently listened to their customers with cargo bikes, because the Cargo-T with its 4130 Chromoly frame and fork has very practical features like a sturdy center kickstand, a step through frame, chainguard…
Xtracycle Month of Love Specials 2/26 – 3/1
A quick mention of some great Xtracycle Specials. The Xtracycle Cargo Van Special for $499 includes the following items: FreeRadical Kit, 1 WideLoader,1 Longloader, 2 Whatchamacollars, and 2 CamStraps The Xtracycle Family Van Special for $499 includes the following items: FreeRadical Kit. Magic Carpet, Footsies, and a Stoker Kit + Get an Xtracycle KickBack for…
Kooks, freaks and weirdos on the bike
I got a note over the weekend from Canadian journalist Lesley Simpson, who wants “eccentric characters about the global commuting movement among cyclists for a CBC TV documentary.” With an explosion of bike commuters over the past year as wallets have taken a hit from rising gas prices and declining income, it’s sometimes a little…
File Organization
For the past few weeks we’ve been organizing all of our files and file names. Having worked on my own developing this business for the first two years, it was generally hard to justify the time it would take to develop a uniform method for organizing my files. As a new business, it was also…
Abio Folding Bikes
There is a pretty new company to the folder line up, Abio. This company is based out of New York City and has produced two different folder models since 2007.. Back in December we previewed their shaft drive, Penza. I have a soft spot in my heart for this bike due to the purple color….
Peter Eland's Custom-Super-Trailer
I’ve been meaning to post something up about this Heavy-Duty, Custom-Built bike cargo trailer built by Peter Eland of Velo Vision. While this trailer could be categorized under our Do-It-Yourself bike trailer list, the attention to detail and purpose built features, set this trailer apart into deserving a post of its own. That being said,…
Ex-husband prohibits children bike riding
Does anybody know where Randy’s girlfriend can get help for this situation? Posted here with his permission. They live in Longmont, Colorado. I am writing this on behalf of my girlfriend and her two kids. There has been an issue with my girlfriend’s Ex-husband about the fact that we allow her two children (age 7…
Trickle Down Inspiration Flow of a Workaholic
I’m always thinking about what works best to keep myself and my employees focused, energized and motivated to keep Wandertec Bike Cargo Design moving forward in the right direction. Often, it is about balancing the right load between the “core level” work of day-to-day and infrastructure and the “fringe level” work of experimental marketing and…
Practical transportation… and a viewing platform
The Xtracycle Free Radical is a favorite among transportation cyclists because of their hauling capability. I saw a Free Radical yesterday in Santa Cruz used as an elevated viewing platform during the Tour of California. Fun stuff!
2009 Predicitions for Utility Cycling
I recently posted a comment in response to a post discussing the current state of utility cycling at Eco Velo. The development of utility cycling in 2009 will have a strong impact on the growth and direction of Wandertec in 2009 so I thought I’d post up my thoughts on these matters. From Eco Velo:…
An Interview with Nick Lobnitz, Carry Freedom Bike Trailer Inventor
Here at Bike Trailer Blog, we’re very intrigued by the creative process that goes into developing bike cargo trailers. We decided to get in touch with some of the inventors of the various bike trailers that are available. Nick Lobnitz of Carry Freedom was kind enough to reply to our interview. Nick is the inventor…