Posts Tagged ‘bicycle’
Heavy
Big bag of nails in there somewhere, too.
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Picnic dinner
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, dinner, Kids, picnic, twins
Emergency laundry bakfiets
Say your basement is flooded with twenty inches of water and it’s only days after getting the heat and hot water repaired that you realize the water has shorted out the motor in your washing machine. You’ve got 10 days’ worth of laundry for four people, two of whom are 15-month-olds. One of the loads […]
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Dear Rain
Dear Rain, On behalf of the plants, we thank you. Everybody else is still pretty pissed. Personally, I’m looking forward to you clearing out of my basement already so I can relight my pilots. We’re cold. Sincerely, BCW
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Dear Dutch Bike Co.
Dear Dutch Bike Co., Thanks for importing Clarijs bags! Fondly, BCW
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Dear Drivers
Dear Drivers, I’m a driver too, so don’t be insulted: you can’t have it both ways. Four-way stops are tricky. I don’t ever try sneaking through. I always stop at the sign when other cars are present or slowing to stop. I’ve seen drivers’ reactions when cyclists float through. It’s not pretty. So when I […]
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We took a ride to the river path a few weekends back. The path starts five miles from here. In previous years, before kids, we’d taken a direct route, most of which was along a road with a 45mph stretch. This year we wound through the neighboring downtown along quiet residential and mostly empty industrial […]
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Tags: bakfiets, bicycle, bike, path, picnic, twins
My in-town doppelgänger
Hello, friend.
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David Byrne
David Byrne came to town the other day to talk about cycling and do his slideshow. It was fun. He rides his bike in cities he visits and photographs the infrastructure or lack there of. The story was roughly his personal survey of the world’s urban cycling facilities without any of the pretension you might expect […]
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Tags: bicycle, bike, david byrne, edelux, rohloff, sandy zipp, tubus
Bikes Can Work 