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We tried it: Xtracycle EdgeRunner (assisted and unassisted)
Test riding the stoked EdgeRunner in Seattle. Thanks to Davey Oil for the chance to ride, and Madi Carlson for the great photo! In 2012 I rode the prototype EdgeRunner. It was a hard bike to review...
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We tried it: Urban Arrow
As promised, the lede in 6 words: Like Bakfietsen? You’ll love Urban Arrows. Check it out: Redwood City has Urban Arrows and sunshine, too. I have had a couple of recent conversations with cool bike...
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Family bike shops that I like
I get asked questions about family biking a lot (Always welcome! Feel free to email! I will be painfully slow to respond, but it will happen eventually). One of the more common questions I get from...
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We tried it: Bike Friday Haul-a-Day
Nice color. Last year in Portland, we had a chance to test-ride a new midtail: the Bike Friday Haul-a-Day. Midtails are not particularly common yet, even in the still-rarified world of cargo bikes, so...
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We tried it: Faraday Porteur
It’s not just a bike, it’s also a coat rack. Our kids are getting older, and as a result, I can imagine something that was previously kind of unimaginable, which is riding a bike that’s not actually a...
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We tried it: Burley Travoy
Our Burley Travoy, ready for the market This may well be the most-delayed review I’ve ever written. We got a Burley Travoy for Christmas in 2011, and have used it regularly for 3.5 years. It is sort of...
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We tried it: Juiced Riders ODK U500
Well hello, long time no see. Both the world and I have been busy, in my case innocuously. I have a new fall class with about 120 students, and thus have missed multiple anniversaries that I try to...
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We tried it: Yuba Spicy Curry
Lately my reviews have been slowing down. This is not an accident. My kids, now ages 10 and 7, are getting big enough that I’m increasingly distant from the range of kids normally carried by bike. Our...
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Is it too good to be true?
Two kids on our Kona MinUte, not an everyday thing Our path to all-bikes-all-the-time did not always run smoothly. At various points, we got crappy advice (I have refrained for years from listing “San...
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We tried it: Riese & Müller Packster 60
The Packster 60 Over the winter break, we got the chance to test ride one of the recent new entrants in the front-loading cargo bike market, the Packster. The New Wheel in San Francisco loaned it to us...
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