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The mothership
When we showed up at the farmer’s market with bikes in the bike, a friend said the bakfiets was like a mothership now. If it were a star destroyer, that would make our kids storm troopers, which sounds about right. They have poor aim and fire indiscriminately. The balance bikes at the market were the […]
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Cycling in heels
The kids have been riding balance bikes since May. Took them a few months to want to try them and some time after that to get past frustration, but now they tear around the house with their feet in the air. G’s been walking in her mother’s heels. A few days later she got on […]
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Every day the worst case
Winter ended months ago. I didn’t ride to work at all in January. Just walking five hundred feet from the house was a chore. It was pretty miserable all around and it lasted forever. Here’s the day in late February when the ice that froze the gate in place melted enough that we could get […]
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Funny Bunnies
Happy Bunny Day. The snow melted long ago and we’ve been out, just haven’t had much chance to write about it. Will be catching up one of these days…
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All-day bakfiets
What does a day look like if the bakfiets is your car? It looks pretty much like any other day, only maybe you need a little extra time to get it all done because you’re going to be a little slower about it. What did I have to accomplish on Halloween? Take the kids to […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, groceries, halloween, shopping, twins
Well, that was wild
On Friday, one of my posts was featured on a portal site. A messload of people were sent down my series of tubes who would not have otherwise found this sleepy blog. To those of you who have returned: welcome! It’s been a long hot summer during which we did a lot less riding than […]
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4-year-old sued for negligence
Manhattan is a funny place. I lived there for a lot of years. One of the things you come to accept is you could step off the curb and die at any moment. That’s part of the thrill of living there—it’s a tiny island jammed full of people scattering around at all hours, getting angry […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, negligence, sidewalks
Born on a bicycle
I have the good fortune in the work that I do to have met a few Dutch people this year. When the conversation inevitably turned toward cycling, they all said the same thing: “The Dutch are born on bicycles.” The reason all that fantastic infrastructure works so well is because people start learning to use […]
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Bikes Can Work 