My son playing around the cargobike

Beer and grocery run for the holiday weekend. A Shiner Bock bakfiiets holiday weekend.

Looking for local Metrofiet owner

Anyone in the Seattle area who uses a Metrofiet [link] want to engage in some good natured competition with my Bakfiets? No, not drag racing or a Tour De Seattle. I think it'd be fun to make a series of Youtube videos with them side-by-side and their respective owners bantering about what their bike does well or not so well.

Contact this.is.lance.miller@gmail.com if interested. I should add I'm not a bike shop owner or in any other way invested in the bike industry other than as an owner of my cargobike. So this is just a sincere quest for fun.

Gears

I'm riding in the top (8th) gear now. I've had my cargobike for a month and half now. The first several weeks I rode it on flat grades in 4th ot 5th, never above 5th other than while cruising downhill.

As you can see from my last few postings, I'd gotten fixated on testing and training myself on hill climbing. The grades were 2-7° and a little over 300 foot climb. I did this daily for the first 5 weeks of owning the bike.

I credit the intensity of the hill climbing for transforming my flat ground riding : in 8th and fairly fast. With this new speed capacity for my legs and lungs my casual runs to the store, on the flat Burke-Gilman trail, are now enough of a workout.

....and exhilaratingly fun.

Leisurely ride to the beach

Nothing significant for the biking world press today. Just a photo from my morning ride to the beach. It was 35° F., perfect to me, and I noticed my leg power has increased enough to pedal the cargobike in the highest gear (8th) on flat ground. It's my 48th birthday and had a nice, leisurely ride.