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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.

Mom biking on a bakfiets cargo bike. A box in the front holds two kids and a dog.

How a car-loving mom found herself running errands with two kids by bike

A guest post by Mrs S. I don’t consider myself a hardcore cyclist, but after completing the April 30 Days of Biking Challenge and now having signed up for the Endomondo National Bike Challenge I have to admit to myself that at this point I am bicycling with at

A small couch strapped across a cargo bike. Ground is covered by orange leaves.

Hauling couches by bike

Couches are fun to haul by bike. Workcycle's bakfiets, pictured above, is not particularly well-suited for the task, as the couch is much too large to fix in the box. That didn’t stop it from being fun to make it work, anyway. The best choice for hauling

Best practice for handling UTF-8 when percent-encoding?

Best practice for handling UTF-8 when percent-encoding?

In my previous post I summarized the current state of Percent-encoding in Perl. One of my conclusions was that the perfect percent-encoding solution would automatically handle UTF-8 encoding, using logic like this: utf8::encode $string if utf8::is_utf8 $string; Respected Plack author miyagawa quickly responded in a response post

Percent-encoding URIs in Perl

Percent-encoding URIs in Perl

This post is about the current state of URI encoding in Perl. This is the problem space of being able to safely pass arbitrary text into and out of a URI format. If you've even seen a space in URL represented as "%20", that's

Man standing with cargo bike and trailer with Christmas tree. Snow on ground and Christmas trees in background.

First Christmas tree by bike and the day I bought Bar Mitts

In previous years I had done the Christmas tree recycling by bike, but this was first year I picked up the Christmas tree by bike. It was about a 15 mile round trip to the tree farm in Centerville, Indiana from Richmond with snow falling and temps in the mid