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Cargo Bikes

Posts about cargo bikes like the Surly Big Dummy, Yuba Mundo and Workcycle's front-loading bakfiets.

Dad with two kids and camping gear on an electric cargo bike

Mother's Day Off: The gift of solitude while I take the kids bike camping

When our kids were younger my wife has happy to get the same gift each Mother's Day: a day off! May in Indiana also begins the season my family likes to camp. So the annual Mother's Day Off family bike camping trip was born. Here are

Winter Bike Commuting with Kids

Winter Bike Commuting with Kids

Wearing your car: Using your car as weather protection for a trip you would otherwise walk or bike. Does carrying my children around town in the winter require a car? I experimented to find out.

Surly Big Dummy Long Term Cargo Bike Review

Surly Big Dummy Long Term Cargo Bike Review

It's been over 11 years since I bought a Surly Big Dummy longtail cargo bike. Here's a summary of how I used it and why I'm still riding it. The Surly Big Dummy was a great bike with growing kids and now continues to

Review of Carsick Designs "Xtra Big One!" Slingset for Surly Big Dummy longtail cargo bike

Review of Carsick Designs "Xtra Big One!" Slingset for Surly Big Dummy longtail cargo bike

If you are shopping for bags for a longtail cargo bike like the Surly Big Dummy, you could buy some bags from Xtracycle or Surly's own "Dummy Bags", but this review is about the Xtra Big One! Slingset by Carsick Designs. The closet product to compare

two parents ride cargo bikes in the country, each with children on the back and huge loads for camping.

Review: Yuba Mundo vs Xtracycle EdgeRunner (like Stoker)

This is a guest post by Don Galligher of a Yuba Mundo and Xtracycle Edgerunner which is similar to the Xtracycle Stoker that replaced it. Neither model reviewed here has electric. This review compares the 2013 Yuba Mundo cargo bike with the 2014 Xtracycle 27D EdgeRunner. My daughters have named

Mom on cargo bike with small child sitting behind here and older child pedaling on a trailerbike

How to attach a Burley Piccolo to a Yuba Mundo

The Yuba Mundo is a great bike for carrying young children, and the Burley Piccolo is a great way to extend a bike so that child from ages 4 to 10 can help pedal. With our Burley Piccolo, our older child is happier riding than sitting, as parents we get

Two kids play on a teeter totter with a cargo bike in the background

The comments a mom gets when cargo biking with kids

The following post was written by wife in 2013. Reviewing it now as we head into 2023, the comments still sound familiar. I get a lot of comments when I am riding my Yuba Train with the kids. They are usually mostly positive and sometimes make me crazy with irritation.