One photo and two videos from now, you'll understand how Side Visibility and the Down Low Glow protect you on night rides.
Nearly 70% of nighttime bicycle / car collisions are related to Side Visibility.
Above, Rock The Bike's piece on the benefits of Side Visibility.
Above, a YouTube video by Livewombat, an enthusiastic customer, shows how bright the DLG is when viewed from the side.
Front and rear safety lights (blinkies) protect you well in many riding situations. But blinkies are weakest when viewed from the side. Unfortunately, side visibility is the most common cause of nighttime bicycle-car collisions. Every time you approach a turn or an intersection, your side visibility is key to drivers seeing you.
Gear: Sport utility bikes
Originally appeared on Los Angeles Times.Quotation:
Solid, simple execution of the cargo-bike concept.
The LA Times reviewed and compared four popular load-carrying bike options including the Mundo Cargo Bike and the Xtracycle Sport Utility Bicycle
Gear: Sport utility bikes
A solid workhorse
Yuba Mundo Cargo bicycle: Integrated, six-speed, steel longtail bike and cargo frame with built-in rack and low-slung side-load platforms designed to carry 440 pounds.
Likes: Solid, simple execution of the cargo-bike concept. Side-load platforms double as passenger footrests. Includes tough 48-spoke rear wheel. Quite stable due to long wheelbase (a foot longer than that on normal bikes) and its ability to carry items low to the ground. I carried a 42-inch Coleman cooler filled with beer and soft drinks on one side with a 200-pound man on the rack for several miles.
'All Nighter' DLG Battery
Extra long life battery -- for worry free commuting and all-night rides.
Above: the All Nighter DLG Battery shown beneath a standard DLG battery.
Dirt Rag covers the Bicycle Music Festival
Originally appeared on Dirt Rag Magazine.Quotation:
The musicians rocked, packed and pedaled their way across the city, hauling their guitars, cellos, flutes and drum sets on rear trailers and Xtracycles, those endlessly useful bike rear extensions, and concluded with an evening show in the Mission District's Dolores Park.
THE BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL
by Alastair Bland
It's no secret that cars stink, but who knew that bikes could rock? Around the nation and the world a growing number of musicians on the move are ditching cars and opting for pedal-power instead, taking their traveling acts entirely off the grid. In the winter and spring of 2007, the Ginger Ninjas, a folk-ska band from the Sierra foothills, took the revolution to new heights as they cycled 5000 miles in seven months from their hometown to Chiapas, Mexico. They played 80 pedal-powered shows and returned home in May by bus — and they made it just in time to headline the second annual Bicycle Music Festival in San Francisco.
On its first time around in August of 2007, the Festival rolled through the streets of San Francisco featuring local, low-impact acts that shirk cars and even dodge the ever-trendy biodiesel van. It was the first event of its sort-anywhere, to the best of its organizers' knowledge. Organized by Gabe Dominguez, guitarist in SHAKE YOUR PEACE! and Paul Freedman, a.k.a. Fossil Fool: The Bike Rapper, the festival featured a dozen bands and drew several hundred fans from venue to venue, beginning at the city's east side at the Alemany Farmer's Market. The musicians rocked, packed and pedaled their way across the city, hauling their guitars, cellos, flutes and drum sets on rear trailers and Xtracycles, those endlessly useful bike rear extensions, and concluded with an evening show in the Mission District's Dolores Park.
Highlights from Interbike 2008
Submitted by fossilfool on Sat, 09/27/2008 - 18:23.Photos of getting our booth to our booth on Mundos, blending at various points in the show, and a few things I saw at the show.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Video highlights from Cross Vegas, the Rock the Bike / Yuba booth, and the Mobile Social at the Downtown Crit.
Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Video highlights from Cross Vegas, the Rock the Bike / Yuba booth, and the Mobile Social at the Downtown Crit.
The Light Bike
Illustrates the difference between Compact Fluorescent and Incandescent light bulbs through pedaling effort
Billboards and television advertisements can only go so far. The Light Bike delivers an energy conservation message in a way that people can feel. By flipping its single switch, pedalers can feel the difference between Compact Fluorescent and incandescent light bulbs. (Hint: the CFL bulb feels about half as hard.)
Antioquia is on Tour to Santa Cruz
Submitted by fossilfool on Sat, 09/20/2008 - 16:54.
Ran into Antioquia on my way to work. The band got seriously inspired by riding around San Francisco with us at Bicycle Music Festival this year and are now on their way to Santa Cruz on Xtracycle SUB's. It's a shake-down tour, getting used to being bike-touring musicians. In the future they're hoping to have their own pedal-powered PA system for live shows. Here's one of their videos below from performing at the Bicycle Music Festival in June.
Check out their upcoming shows this weekend and October 7 at the Elbo Room in SF!
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Kyle Watson's $10K Cruiser
Submitted by fossilfool on Tue, 09/16/2008 - 20:20.
Wanted people to see this bike by Kyle Watson, an industrial designer from Detroit. I love the segmented design and the pounded steel saddle. What a pleasure this must be to cruise the local routes.
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Just Cruisin'
Originally appeared on Claire St. John, Davis Enterprise.Quotation:
The idea is to be inventive and creative, to progress bike culture as much as possible so people see you don't have to be decked out in your spandex and your bright colors, you can come and go at any speed -- preferably slowly."
Going Green with the Mundo Recycling "Truck"
Originally appeared on State Journal.Quotation:
Stuart Harrod, 44 of Frankfort, sits on his cargo bike during the second annual Going Green: Frankfort Climate Action Festival on the Old Capitol lawn Saturday. The bike has an electric motor attached to the front tire and is used for picking up groceries and running errands around town, Harrod said. The motor helps along the hills and it is good exercise, Harrod said.
Stu Harrod writes:
I attended our city's Go Green festival on the Mundo sporting recycle bins on the rack and wound up in the newspaper. The bike is fantastic and has already saved me over $50.00 in gas the first week, and has drastically reduced my carbon footprint.
Anyway, the mayor jokingly pointed at my bike during his opening speech and told the crowd to check out the city's new recycling truck ! The bike helped make an positive impact on the city officials and also gave a big boost to our fight for bike lanes and bicycle/pedestrian paths in our city.
The bike has apparently already created a buzz about town...I was amazed at how many people commented that they've seen me around town on it and were shocked to see what I was able to haul on a bicycle. Funny thing...after the mayor's speech people started using my recycle bin on the bike to deposit their aluminum cans and plastic/glass bottles at the festival. The Mundo was put to work as an impromtu recycle truck and was definitely in it's element.
