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Carrying Bamboo Plants Around
Bamboo is one of the most useful and used plants on earth, and it also has a unique look especially in the ‘Western World’ where it is not as well known and cultivated. Although I live in New England, bamboo … Continue reading
Comparing the Yuba Mundo with Surly’s Big Dummy
So last weekend I grabbed my electric bike with the XtraCycle attachment, and biked over to a friend, who has a Surly Big Dummy. He agreed to swap the two bikes for a short time to allow me to compare … Continue reading
Bikeable Communities Workshop
MassBike is running a Bikeable Community Training on June 30th in Northampton from 1-4pm. This is the first of several trainings designed to give tools for effective local citizen engagement, and will go through case studies of successful bike-projects from … Continue reading
Building Bamboo Bicycle Trailers
Do you want to build your own bamboo bicycle trailer? We do! As the first of Transition Amherst’s monthly skill workshops, twelve of us got together on March 24th at the Neighborhood Bicycle Resource Center, for the first of a … Continue reading
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The State of Biking
Along with the additional pictures I talked about last time, I thought I mention some more things about the bike week or about biking in general. To start with a line of invigorating data, Massachusetts ranked as the 3rd most … Continue reading
Riding in the rain
I meant to put more pictures up about the bike week this week, as I have now many more of them, but I just had such a good ride on the Yuba Mundo, that I rather write about that. This … Continue reading
Successful Bicycle Show Friday
Last Friday the weather was very cooperative, and to crown all the bike week related events, Amherst had a well attended Commuter Breakfast and Bicycle Show right in front of Town Hall. I took nine bikes and a trailer to … Continue reading
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Bike Week Kickoff
I got interviewed about biking and having set up the Neighborhood Bicycle Resource Center. To my big surprise, the very well written article by Nick Grabbe has come out on the front page of both the Amherst Bulletin and the … Continue reading
Amherst Commuter Bike Breakfast, and Bike Show
Friday (May 18) morning 7-11 there is a free breakfast for people who show up with their bikes. All kinds of breakfast food, t-shirts, pant clips, bells (I didn’t see whistles in our set though, sorry). Alongside that will be … Continue reading
Playing with Cargo Bikes
This blog category will be the location of comparing many different styles and builds of cargo bicycles. As you can read in the paper I feel compassionate about bicycling and in particular being able to carry all kinds of stuff … Continue reading
