As Eric Gallo-Miscevich cycles down the Martin Goodman Trail on Queens Quay, it takes a moment for onlookers to understand what they’re seeing. At first glance it looks like the 19-year-old is riding three bikes at once – two of…
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The Bringley bike is car alternative for busy urban environments
The idea for Bringley came from company owner Lawrence Brand’s own experiences of living in a small London apartment with no outside bicycle storage, but needing a cargo bike to haul his things around. Lawrence explained: “I needed the carrying capacity…
Support Local Businesses—And Then Get Same-Day Delivery By Bike
If you buy toilet paper online—or shoes or shampoo or groceries—it’s probably partly because of lack of time to shop in person. That convenience comes with a few obvious challenges, like undercutting local businesses and adding to the massive carbon…
Motor-less City? Bankrupt Detroit’s booming bike industry
Before there was the Model T, there was the Quadricycle. Henry Ford fashioned his original automobile from four bicycle wheels and a chain at the height of Detroit’s 19th-century bike (yes, bike) manufacturing boom. If Detroit rose and fell on…
Most $800 bicycles tout features such as a carbon fork and high-end components. At Heritage Bicycles, the $800 base-model, single-speed bike doesn’t even come with handbrakes—yet they are rolling out the door so fast that the almost three-year-old bike-and-coffee shop…
Take a close look at this bike!
Priority Bikes hit a home-run with this bike design. 3-speed internal hub, belt drive, puncture-resistant tires, pull-back handlebars. This city bicycle has done everything Self-Propelled City has been begging bike shops to do for years. On their kickstarter page you could have ordered…
A Global Platform for P2P Cargo Bike-Sharing
Want to share your cargo bike? Or borrow one? Velogistics has the plan figured out with a straight-forward mapping system. People who want to rent or share their cargo bikes post photos and short descriptions of their bikes on the Velogistics…
The Companion Bike Seat: It’s Better Than Riding on Handle Bars
The Companion Bike Seat is a brand new, and pretty handy, extra that hooks up to your bike, allowing you to cart around, at the very least, a 200-pound passenger — or for parents a lot of kids. This week,…
Portland’s cargo bike businesses attract national media spotlight
Great quotes! “The country’s biggest seller of the Yuba Mundo is Joe Bike, a Portland, Ore., store specializing in “high-performance urban, utility and touring bikes.” The owner, Joe Doebele, said that when he began carrying cargo bikes—a catchall term covering…
In Cargo Delivery, the Three-Wheelers That Could
By CLAIRE MARTIN Published: July 6, 2013 IT’S well-known that Portland really likes its bicycles. But its embrace of bike culture goes beyond its catering to commuters, leisure riders and athletes. So bike-centric is Portland that its residents can have…
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