i am strong like ox

here i am hauling the sfbc bike long trailer, loaded with 250lbs of food and liquid and glass.

NAHBS: Michael Cleaver

hey there mike cleaver. nice to see you at NAHBS. your bike was lovely as are you in a little bastard kind of way. mama loves you even so.

cleaver you brought this awesome long john. i especially like the bucket and am intrigued by the potbellied truss.

inside the bucket, a street sign. delightful!

for a good time, call:

longjohn mixte.  call dan or chad for more info.

the taco bike on serious eats

thanks to a special friend (u know who you are, ms. g) i started using the google reader to keep track of all my favorite blogs.  I recently added serious eats to my feed after finding this nice recipe for Red Braised Turkey Gizzards and just when I was thinking I should remove serious eats because they post more content than my brain can process, i came across a feature on the taco bike.  bikes and food are two of my favorite things (I also like basura). I've decided there is serious value in serious eats, so it stays. Taco bike sound and look familiar?  Yes it does, you've seen me on this bike before.   Read full TacoBike post here.

I ridez the (weird fish) taco bike

 photo courtesty of Chimowitz.  Bike courtesy of Timmy.

bikes, babies, burning man

A beautiful photo from my friend Aleksy of his child passed out in a bike trailer at burning man. Below is before the bike trailer.

bike in the basket

the best thing about bikes is that they carry things, namely the rider, but also other things. I'm not of the messenger bag wearing, heavy ass load on my back carrying variety, so baskets and racks and panniers are important to me. let the beast carry the burden I say. here's a shot of me carrying home a bike with flat tire, in my basket. vintage, 2006 or so.

Testing Riding a Bike: The Bakfiets Experience

Enough said.  The bakfiets is an experience we should all take part in.   The bakfiets is a Long John style cargo bike which according to longjohn.org is a two-wheeled cargo bike with the load area between the steering tube and front wheel.  The site doesn't clarify who designed the first long john, but does attribute a Danish company with first manufacturing the bike in the 1940's.  One thing is for sure, long john cargo bikes haul ass, and then some, and the modern editions handle like a dream.

Thanks to MyDutchBike.com, I had the privilege of riding a bakfiets home, loaded (the bike not me),  after KT and I finished the Vélo Vogue Bike Wardrobe Remix photo booth at the Disposable Film Festival.  I had to figure out a way to get the photo booth equipment AND my bike home too, but with a huge cargo box I knew it wouldn't be a thing.



Loading the bakfiets was cake and it took about 15 seconds to adjust to riding, the 8-speed nexus hub was perfect even with a little incline, handling was smooth enough that I could ride one handed and snap photos of myself, getting the bike on and off the kick stand was a breeze, and if I could afford it, I'd stock my bike garage with a bakfiets today.  Experience the feat of engineering that is this bike.  Get on a bakfiets, find a load to carry, GO!