Comments on: Contact http://carfreedays.com Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:47:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Eric Britton, editor http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-3018 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:22:55 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-3018 Hello. You may find some joy in the following:

1. World Car Free Days at http://www.worldcarfreedays.com
2. The origins of the Car Free Day: The Thursday project at http://www.thursday.worldcarfreedays.com
3. And from World Streets – http://worldstreets.wordpress.com/category/carfree/

]]> By: Tim K http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-2887 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:46:26 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-2887 Hi Max – yep, 24″ wheels. I got the rack on craigslist. I was all prepared to hack one by cutting down the legs and drilling new mounting holes, but it turns out this one has adjustable legs. Mine isn’t marked, but I’m pretty sure it’s a “Delta mega adjustable rear rack.” Lots of options on Google, and more than likely most local shops can order you up Delta products.

I would have liked the rack to be a tad lower — I had to make a center mounting stay out of some old Blackburn rack stays (because they are really long and the used rack only came with two shortish ones — the new racks may come with more in the way of parts). This was so I could fix the rack to the seatpost clamp because the bke has a wacky mono-stay).

This rack looks like the tubular part of the stays are long enough that you could indeed trim a couple centimeters off them and get the rack lower (you’d need to drill more mounting holes in the tubular part) and still have enough room to use the same rack on a 26″ bike. In the end, especially since I had to use the modified seatpost clamp mount, I left it as is.

Your experience may differ according to the target bikes. Holler if you need more. I think I have some close up shots somewhere in the flickr stream.
-Tim

]]> By: Max http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-2884 Mon, 08 Nov 2010 05:21:30 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-2884 Hi Tim and Anne, I have a technical question for you.

Your daughter’s bike looks like it has 24″ wheels. If this is the case, what rack did you manage to find for it?

Thanks,

Max

]]> By: Melissa Miller http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1503 Tue, 26 May 2009 20:16:34 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1503 Thanks Anne, I look forward to hearing from you. To let you know I love the OMA and feel it offers all that I want in a bike. My husband is concerned with the high cost (I can’t blame him. The price is high and something we don’t want to do without doing our research first). Here is my list of what I want out of a bike and this may help you when shooting me an email.
1. alternative transportation for my son and me (we want to get out of our car. he’s 17 months old, he doesn’t need to be trapped in a car. :) )
2. safety
3. use of bike for hauling my son, errand running, grocery shopping etc
4. low maintenance

I think my two big questions are; Is this bike worth the cost? And, what about hills? I understand the breaks are not designed for steep hills especially when hauling cargo or people. I then have to ask myself am I approaching this like I did when I had my road bike and needed to conquer hills or is it all about an easy life style and if I need to get off my bike to walk up or down a hill then that is what I need to do?

This is why I am looking for someone with a similar lifestyle and someone that lives in this city with the OMA to assist me in answering these questions.
Take care and thank you for your time!

]]> By: Anne http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1502 Tue, 26 May 2009 18:43:57 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1502 Hi Melissa,

Thanks for the comment. I’d love to share my impressions of my Oma. I’ll shoot you an email.

Anne

]]> By: Melissa Miller http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1498 Mon, 25 May 2009 16:14:43 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1498 Hi Anne, I saw a comment you posted on another site regarding your OMA in Seattle. I am looking into the purchase of this bike for my son (17 months) and me. We want to get out of the car (hate it!). I keep reading comments on the OMA not being a good bike for Seattle. I’m into just enjoying the bike like I did when I was a kid and want my son to enjoy it as much as I do. I live in the Columbia City neighborhood. Any personal feedback you can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Love the blog!

]]> By: Val http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1472 Fri, 22 May 2009 20:46:29 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1472 Hey folks – you probably are already planning for this, but just in case you managed to forget: http://www.rideyourbike.com/cargobikeride20.html See you there!

]]> By: Tim K http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1339 Mon, 04 May 2009 22:14:15 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1339 It looks like:
a) they have moved away from the Car Free Day title. Maybe it’s a little too polarizing for a mayor who’s running against a guy who already has the bike vote.
b) and it’s May 31.
c) check out the full calendar of these “Summer Streets” events: http://www.seattlecan.org/calendar.html

]]> By: Noelle http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-1338 Mon, 04 May 2009 19:34:18 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-1338 Hi I was just wondering when the car free day will be in West Seattle? Thank you so much for your time!

]]> By: Val http://carfreedays.com/contact/comment-page-1/#comment-729 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:33:39 +0000 http://carfreedays.wordpress.com/contact/#comment-729 Hey folks – sorry for the short notice (we got busy! also, we can be expert procrastinators), but here’s the skinny on the Labor Day ride: http://www.rideyourbike.com/cargobikeride16.html Pass it on!

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