{"id":514,"date":"2012-05-15T15:59:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T20:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/?p=514"},"modified":"2012-05-31T16:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-31T21:46:16","slug":"starting-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/starting-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Cargo Bikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CargoBikes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-515\" title=\"CargoBikes\" src=\"http:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CargoBikes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CargoBikes.jpg 710w, https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CargoBikes-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis blog category will be the location of comparing many different styles and builds of cargo bicycles. As you can read in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gazettenet.com\/2012\/05\/11\/all-wheel-driver-die-hard-cyclist-gabor-lukacs-sets-the-tone-for-pioneer-valley-bike-week-0\">paper<\/a> I feel compassionate about bicycling and in particular being able to carry all kinds of stuff on them. Running a big garden operation, complete with fruit trees and chicken, and tinkering with bikes and sheds, I need to carry things, and if I remain car-less, as I intend, I need to carry everything on the bike.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a list of bikes I will examine for functionality, comfort, speed, energy and beauty\/elegance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am getting a Yuba Mundo bicycle hopefully arriving here just before our bike show this Friday (on the common of Amherst, from 7am to 11am)<\/li>\n<li>A Box Trike that I built last fall<\/li>\n<li>Another contraption I call a Front-Decker, that I just completed a few weeks ago<\/li>\n<li>And an old bicycle integrated with an XtraCycle FreeRadical kit and an electric kit, that I have used for over a year now.<\/li>\n<li>A friend of mine has a Surly Big Dummy my size I will borrow and test-ride.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch this space for updates (hopefully every other week, or more frequently.<\/p>\n<p>Gabor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/starting-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50,59,46,47,51],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cargobicycling","tag-article","tag-bicycle","tag-bike-week","tag-cargo-bikes","tag-comparing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transitionamherst.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}