Wouldn’t it be cool if your Google Map directions told you the best way for bikes to go? Some folks in Portland at a startup called bycycle.org are working on just such a gizmo, and have rolled it out in a couple of cities.
Speaking of Portland, I was there for a conference last week and [...]

I just got an email about the expanding business of this used-bike-buying company. They’ll buy your used bike, but also buy from dealers who accept bikes on trade-ins. No word on how they sell them, though ebay is a good guess. I love used bikes! Cool that people are creating a simple market for it.
I [...]

Tim Harvey set off by Xtracycle from Vancouver Canada a couple years ago. The Ginger Ninjas rendesvoused with him and his teammate Colin in Fairbanks AK. Since then, Tim rode, slogged, and rowed to Moscow and across some oceans and stuff.
Now he’s in Venezuela, getting ready for the little ride home.

This is what happens when [...]

Have you ever thought that your excess homestuff would be not just needed, but URGENTLY NEEDED by someone just a UPS jaunt away? Spring is nearly upon us; no time like the present to begin the year’s decumulatory gesturing. Now hear this from the Bayou.
These are extremely urgent needs:

Building materials, tools, saws, hammer/nails/screws, plywood, lumber, [...]

These people ride clunky bikes all around Europe and provide a mobile circus. I like bike circuses that travel in buses, but I like this more.

Visiting my mom on the sixth floor. Xtracycle fits just fine in her teeny elevator. This is a long longbike, too, an Electra Townie that’s about 10″ longer than a regular x.[photopress:XinElevator.jpg,full,pp_empty]

My dad has been cleaning out the corners of his house lately and asked me if I wanted the 30-06. It’s the same gun I used to shoot my first deer when I was fourteen. It was the last day of hunting season, called “hunter’s choice” in Oregon because you could shoot does and fawns. [...]

Interesting piece about the growing murmur around OG vs. Homegrown. Organically grown die-hards have been starting to wonder if certified kiwis straight off the plane from New Zealand are really all that good for the planet.

Another reason I dig Grist Mag, cool headlines like this (is that plagiarism?). It refers to the latest installment of my interview: “The most efficient kind of transportation is already being where you want to go, says Xtracycle prez Kipchoge Spencer, who moved within biking distance of work, his favorite food store, and several friends [...]

In the spirit of decumulation, dematerialization, and just generally getting out from underneath the heap of crap that seems to fall endlessly from the heavens (help us), I imagine a post-shampoo existence. Those that know me and my hair well might imagine that I have already imagined just such an existence. And in truth, I [...]