Entries from November 2007
Our Danish friends at Cycliciousness drew our attention to a great holiday giving idea this year. Get this: A single $40 donation to UNICEF buys a bike (!) for health workers in developing countries.
From the US UNICEF Giving site:
Help reach parts of many countries that otherwise could be without regular support from health workers. Your purchase will provide a bicycle to help health workers reach vulnerable children in remote communities. Having access to a bicycle for a health worker or midwife can help increase the health standards of children in remote villages and communities in developing countries. A small price to pay for such an important gift!
$40 is all it takes to make it happen.
$40? That’s like one Car Free Date Night! Hmmm …. beers and a movie, or a bike? That’s an easy choice. For our next date, we’ll just do the car-free part and send the date money to UNICEF.
How about you? Can you imagine a better way to share the bike love this holiday season!
-Tim
Categories: bigger than here · bikes · dates
Tagged: , bike, bikes, christmas, gifts, giving, health, UNICEF, vaccine bike
It’s a beautiful fall day in Seattle. The perfect opportunity to ride off all that Thanksgiving eatin’. We’ll be there with the whole family - Grab your lunch, your bike, and meet us as we join the shopping hordes and NOT shop.
-Anne and Tim
Categories: Human Powered Politics · alternative transportation · bikes · consumerism · kids · seattle · weather · xtracycle
Tagged: , bikes, Black Friday, Buy Nothing Day, buynothingday, pike place market, rides, seattle, xtracycle
I covered stoker bars a while ago. That was a cop-out because the bar is the easy part. Almost anything will work (chopped off mountain bike bar, old BMX bars, Albatross, whatever). The hard part is mounting the bar in such a way that the passenger’s nose is not stuffed into the rider’s butt.
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Categories: buildin' the xtracycle · longbikes · shopping · wrenchin' · xtracycle
Tagged: bikes, building, cheap-ass-parts, components, ebay, parts, shopping, stoker, xtracycle
I love A.N.T. (Alternative Needs Transportation) Bikes out there near Baa-ston. I mean… I LOOOOOVE them. Mike and team harvests the best of the Dutch-Danish-French city-bike tradition as they deliver a stylish, updated ride, complete with with modern steel and components.
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Categories: alternative transportation · bike lust · bikes · consumerism
Tagged: bikelust, bikes, cargo bikes, city bikes, custom, desire, dutch bikes, lust, steel, transportation
Bike Portland ponders family cycling – is it the next big thing? Way to go, Marion, looks like fun.
Maybe in Portland, but Seattle has a long way to go. I’ve never seen that many bikes at either of my kids’ schools. Our schools are at the top of a hill – so that’s probably why ; – )
- Anne
Categories: School · alternative transportation · bikes · kids · longbikes · seattle · xtracycle
Tagged: bikes, kids, neighborhoods, portland, School, seattle, traffic
Our friends at Bikecommuters recently hosted a great conversation about the excuses people make for not bike commuting. Lots of insight there, especially Val’s thoughts on being an enabler.
We’ve heard it all as well. My favorite is when people see us ride up on our bikes with kids on the back and make excuses as an introduction - even before the requisite, “Hello, how are ya doin?”
Last night we rode less than a mile to a soccer party for our six year old. Tim had the 2 pans of enchiladas Anne made strapped to the snap deck , a six pack of Full Sail IPA in the sideloaders, and our daughter sitting behind said enchiladas. It was less than a mile. So what if it was up hill and it rained on the way home …. kids didn’t complain and we had a great time.
We don’t really care if people refer to us as those crazy bike people or those weird people who don’t drive. We’re having a lot of fun.
- Anne and Tim
Categories: bikes
