Archive for January, 2008

My relaxing weekend down south or a truck, bikes, trains, a plane, and iPhone

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

Last weekend we loaded up a 22″ truck full of bikes and delivered them free of charge to their owners in the San Francisco area. It went well, mostly.

We made this trip because, frankly, our inventory of bakfietsen had become rather large just as the initial very hot sales rate in Portland cooled [...]

Return of Return of the Scorcher

Friday, January 11th, 2008

If everyday practical bicycling had taken on political significance for you by the 1990s or earlier, in the US, chances are good you saw Ted White’s 1992 film Return of the Scorcher at a gathering of like-minded souls. It claimed the expression “critical mass” from nuclear physics for people riding bikes as part of traffic. [...]