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This year’s offering to the winter visibility g-ds 28 Dec 2012 | 07:10 am
It seems like every winter I end up forking over at least a hundred bucks to feel sort of visible out on the road after dark (and this time of year, a lot of our bike riding is after dark). This year ...
Xtracycle Hooptie: Initial Impressions 26 Dec 2012 | 12:52 am
We set up our Xtracycle almost 5 years ago, when our now 6 1/2 year old daughter was not quite 2. It’s hard to explain how different the cargo and family bike market was back then (or the family-bikin...
Co-rider: the good, the bad, the ugly 26 Nov 2012 | 06:12 pm
I really love riding with our youngest (R, now almost 3 1/2) on a front-mounted bike seat. It’s pretty much my favorite way to ride with one kid, provided we don’t have to haul much stuff with us. Thu...
Come ride with us! (Honk! parade 2012) 5 Oct 2012 | 02:23 am
For years we have crashed the Honk! Parade, an amazing non-motorized parade from Davis in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge, full of raucous activist street bands from all over the world, and ...
True Life Stories of the Carfree: Leigh and her family of four, West suburbs of Chicago 14 Aug 2012 | 09:58 pm
How is it August already? Our summer has been so filled with fun that we keep getting too distracted to write about. Instead, we’ve got another carfree family for inspiration for us and all of you. Le...
Barriers to biking 18 Jun 2012 | 08:52 pm
When I talk to people about getting around more by bike, or any efforts to move towards less car dependence (but here the more relevant aspect is biking), I often say that even if things seem more inc...
True Life Stories of the Carfree: Annee, Moses, and their 5 kids, near Portland, OR 28 Apr 2012 | 12:00 am
We’re thrilled to bring you another installment of our continuing series on carfree families, this time featuring a Carfree Family who recently won an Alice Award for outstanding bicycle acheivement! ...
Learning to bike as a grown-up — reader advice please 22 Mar 2012 | 09:43 am
A friend and sometimes commenter here recently sent a note asking for help and encouragement. She never learned to ride a bike as a kid and wants to learn how now, but she’s getting frustrated. I have...
On marriage, parenting, biking and blame 12 Mar 2012 | 11:51 am
A few weeks ago, Angela got into an accident with our brand spanking new bakfiets. She caught the front wheel in a really bad pothole turning onto a poorly maintained street/alley near H’s Hebrew sch...
A warm bikey glow 4 Mar 2012 | 10:07 am
Last weekend, a collection of cargo and family bike folks gathered at our place. Aaron Naparstek, streetsblog founder, is here in Cambridge instead of Brooklyn for the year, and he and I put together ...
