XtraCycle Cargo Bikes Conquer New Mexico

-
Okay, maybe conquer is a little overboard, but Two Xtracycles Are for Sale and Another One Vacations in New Mexico doesn't have quite the same ring, so let's just focus on the Xtracycles.

Xtracycle 1: An Edgerunner for sale in Albuquerque

This one is being regretfully re-homed because its family is too. So, why am I including it here?

You have to read the ad. There are some Craigslisters who rise above the usual details, price, and pics. This is definitely one of those. Check it out!

Superheroes Don't Get Gas!


What can you haul with a cargo bike? Apparently two kids and two more bikes - superhero indeed!




Xtracycle 2: A Radish with Wheels


The Radish is an interesting piece of Xtracycle history. Back when Xtracycle was still offering their original add-on cargo bike kit - the FreeRadical, they also offered the Radish complete bike for those who weren't into the whole DIY approach. Back in the day, they were about $1200, so $350 for this one is not bad.

Xtracycle 3: A Big, Fat Surly ECR with a Leap

A tiny vacay on a big bike

From Bikepacking.com comes this story of a little (but pretty awesome) mini vacation that required no car trip and no plane flight but packed in a whole lot of awesome life experience.

Read about the trip here
 
Okay, that's probably enough cargo bike Xcitement for this time around. Keep on pedaling and stay off the gas!
 
PS. For you cargo bike fans, here's your chance to double the respondership of the 2Wheels Cargo Bike Survey:
 
The Short Survey about Long Bikes (Please, click the link)
 
 
and the original post that contained the survey:
 
That Cargo Bike Thing (With pics and questions)




Location: Lubbock, TX, USA

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

New Turn-Key Klunkers (Or DIY your own)

-
Image
Yep, my most recent distractions have been variations on the klunker. I've always been fond of upcycled vehicles, the ones where you take something old and uncared-for and turn it into something useful and enjoyed. Cafe racers, resto-mods, rat rods, lowriders, bobbers, all of them have caught my eye over the years. And the klunker fits right in. About forty years ago, some people in California started using old balloon-tired cruiser bicycles and modifying them to become the prototype for the modern mountain bike. If you do an image search for a klunker, you get something that looks like this: That's a whole lot of DIY retro-coolness! But wait.... Yep, at least eight of those are not DIY - they are new! Sure enough, for those of you with klunker lust who'd rather ride than wrench, there are options out there, and some are relatively affordable. The Retrospec Sully For a little over $300 you can have a well equipped klunker with retro looks and qu
Read more

Finally - tackling the No-Weld, Longtail DIY Cargo Bike (for hopefully less than $100)

-
Image
I finally started, y'all! Long-time readers of MH or 2WM are thinking, Jeez, MH, it took you long enough! To that I say,  Both of you are absolutely right. Our biggest-ever posts on both blogs have been about cargo bikes, and the really big one is about a No-Weld DIY Longtail Cargo Bike . So, here we go, people - it's time to build one. This week, the final piece fell into place: a Giant Simple Single cruiser bike ($35ish). Originally, I planned to pick up a cheap Huffy cruiser for the build, but cheap Huffys (Huffies?) have been rather rare lately, so I ended up with a nicer (but cheaper) bike. The free swingarm donor The other two main components that previously came into place are a nice and very cheap 3-speed Schwinn step-through ($20 and not pictured) and a junky full-suspension mountain bike ($0). So, the goal here is to balance this equation: Giant + Schwinn + Junky MTB = Longtail Cargo Bike < $100 Humble beginnings (I'll also
Read more

Fossil Free Friday: Passing on the Electric Scrambler Jones

-
Image
(Getting it out of my system) The Scrambler Jones It happens more often than I want to admit. I go through a season of jonesing for a motorcycle to ride. It doesn't make financial sense, it doesn't make logical sense, and I know that if I had one, I would not ride it much. But I dearly miss the feeling of riding a motorcycle along a windy road on a beautiful day. The latest jones has been slightly different - it's still retro and it's still electric, but this time it's dirtier - I'm jonesing for a scrambler. When I look at what's commercially available, there's not much other than one very desirable bike - the Fly Free Smart Desert. Yes, I straight up want one. The Fly Free Smart Desert But they finished the pre-sale and haven't started the post-sale (and I could not afford either, snagit!) Subtract the surfboard, the ocean, the cool helmet and jacket and goggles - that could be me! What else is out there? I've
Read more