2 Wheels Maybe

[ Intrusive Narrator Sidebar 1 : Before you get too excited, this is another post about a bike you can buy in Canada but not in the US, snagit!] Cheap , Cargo , and Klunker - when you think of those words, I hope you think of 2Wheels Maybe . In my quest to make that happen, I scour the entire world North America to find cheap cargo bikes and klunkers. If you're going to ride a green machine, well, it might as well be odd and fun. So, I'm very excited to tell you that I found another cheap-ish klunker! Woohoo! I found it by bravely searching the wilds of youtube. It's the Columbia Rambler. Ironically, the Rambler is an updated version of a bike called the Columbia Klunker, but the Rambler is more of a klunker than the Klunker was. And it comes in three sizes. The Columbia Klunker was a multi-speed bike that was more of a comfort hybrid bike in a klunker-ish frame.  The new Columbia Rambler 24" (at Walmart Canada) But the Rambler, like most tra...

Here at 2Wheels, we love electric cars. Any car that runs without a tailpipe and runs on renewable energy - that's good stuff! The electric car is not the weapon to fight climate change, but one of many steps to get us closer to a livable world. My First West Texas Tesla 2013 But here in Lubbock, the electric wheels have turned slowly. Last Sunday's front page I've kept a daily watch for electric cars in Lubbock several years now. Three years ago I was starting to get excited. I was seeing more and more - three to four per day. In a town with a quarter million people, it may not sound like much, but it was a start. An LBK Electric Car Spotting from 2014 Lately, though, it's been slipping. I've been mostly seeing one per day. There has been a big shift in what I'm seeing. Now I see more Teslas than Leafs and Volts. My daily spotting is scattered pretty evenly among the Tesla Models 3, S, and X. I've been driving a lot more lately. I'...

This past week, a rare opportunity presented itself. I went riding strictly for fun! I built the Huffy Klunker specifically for riding the bike trails at Lubbock's own Mae Simmons Park and I finally got to try it out. (It says, "I'm stumped".) I headed west on the faster trails, but the gravelly uphills were more challenge than I was up for, so I headed east where the trail is more level, has great curves, gentle berms, and a plethora of mesquite trees, prairie dogs, and seven-lined skinks - all great stuff for a mesquite hugger like me. What did the fish yell when it swam into a concrete wall? There were lots of birds out too. My favorite was a snowy egret stalking the mossy shallows below the dam. Ignore the finger and check out the view - water, windmills, and trees! The riding was a blast. There were a couple of jerseyed guys my age out there on 29" fully-suspended rigs. I hope they were having fun and getting away from thei...

Taken on the Texas Tech campus Earlier this week I posted a pic (on Mesquite Hugger ) of a little electric Vantage GreenVan that D and I encountered as we were dropping off our recycling. And, as per usual, it sparked a lot of curiosity about oddball electric vehicles for me. So, I soon found a Vantage trio for sale on the Dallas Craigslist. They're in Aubrey, Texas, a little northeast of Denton. Woohoo! $1333 each! If only the little guys were fully street legal and a bit faster... Two of three on one trailer! I would not call them pretty, but, oh, the places you'll go fossil free! While I was on the DFW CL, I had to poke around a bit and saw this electro-pumpkin just east of Dallas. I've seen it for sale before, but it always needed work to get it going. Now it's a runner and a runner at a pretty reasonable price.  Sure, it won't haul as much as three Vantages, but it'll haul at least twice as fast and will incite ra...

From  Mr. Rogers Neighborhood  to the  almighty CitiCar , one of our favorite sidelines around here at the Mesquite Hugger/2 Wheels Maybe Command Center is the quest to learn more about EVs from our not-so-distant past. Today's installment started right down in the heart of Texas - Austin, the home of Jet Industries. What a sexy line-up ( Find it here ) For me, the fascination started with the Electravan. The tiny van got me. I love funky vans, I love tiny cars, I love EVs - the Electravan is all of those! And there're two added bonuses: it's street legal and it's from my home state. Yep, the Electravan and me - we be toit! Learn more about the ElectraVan on Generation High Output (Truth be told, this is the vintage electric car I want the most.) A short Jet Industries history and anecdotal report on DIY Electric Car The only one of these I've seen up for sale Jet Industries on EVAlbum (Page 1 of 4) A Jet ...

It seems that the people who read this blog [I am very thankful for all four of you!] prefer posts that include cargo bikes, electric bikes, or klunkers. So, I thought to myself, Why not feature all the electric cargo klunkers I can find? And I started the search.  The only one I had stored in my memory was available at Luna Cycle a few years ago... It was a beast, but I haven't seen it on their site for quite a while. You could buy it fully built or you could order a bare frame. For what it was, it was quite cheap and really wild.. As I kept searching, I decided it would just be smarter to seek out turn-key electric klunkers . And that didn't pan out too well either. So I searched for electric cruiser bikes and got a lot closer. Two of the first klunker-ish electric bikes were from the same company - Vintage Electric Bikes. I've been a fan of VEB since I saw this video back in 2014. They are beautiful and powerful bikes but I seldom write about ...