Bike Trailer Blog

What kind of bicycle diplomat (cyclomat?) are you?  If you’re an Obama biker, you probably make eye contact with drivers, signal your turns, and yield the right-of-way when appropriate.  If you’re a McCain biker, you have a window punch in your left hand, some Halt in the right, and greet drivers with a wry, Cheney-esque [...]

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I’m a year-round bike commuter, usually riding four or five days per week, every week of the year. Every week but Bike to Work Week, that is. Year after year something happens, without fail, usually forcing me to drive the whole week, or a good chunk of it. This year, I drove twice. One day it was because of “white out” conditions on the interstate highway I ride into Flag. I didn’t miss a day this winter due to snow. That had to wait until May.

That said, I did get in three days of BTWW this year, and have a few observations to share.

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With National Bike-to-Work-Week kicking off, the Flagstaff Biking Organization kicked things off here with there Bike Bazaar in Downtown Flagstaff. It’s a great event for all the Bike Heads to come out and sell off all the miscellaneous bike parts that have been building up in their garage. We were cleaning house as well.

We used Jeff’s Bikes-At-Work trailer not only to get everything to the Bike Bazaar but also a perfect way to sort and arrange the used stuff we had for sale. With six bins we had the $1, $2, $3, $5, $10 and $15 bins. It made it nice and easy to sell stuff with very little bartering. If something wasn’t moving we just shifted it down to the next cheaper bin. By the end of the day the bins were empty and I had a nice wad of cash in my pocket. Not only is this trailer great for bargain bins it is also an excellent Earth Day Recycling Machine.

We had the bike trailer bin sale up front and on the table in back we had information about all of our trailers at the BikeTrailershop.com along with a sample Burley Nomad, BOB Ibex and Xtracycle to catch there attention.

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Earth Day is around the corner and, the way we see it, the only thing better than having an excuse to ride our bikes is having an excuse to get lots of people to ride their bikes.

You might have guessed that we have a passion for bicycles here at the Bike Trailer Blog. A big part of that comes from our desire to minimize our individual impact on the environment. Join with us this Earth Day in promoting bicycling as a solution for earth friendly transportation.

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I am kicking off our update blog by introducing several new authors that will be contributing with posts:

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As many of you may have noticed, we haven’t been very prolific as of late. We ran into some major issues with our photos and had to change hosting. As we were looking into fixing the problem, we realized a site redesign and platform reevaluation might be in order.

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The photos in my posts have not been showing up on the Blog. This may be a problem with Blogger. We attempted to redirect our host for the Blog and lost the photos in the process. We will be moving the Blog and reloading the photos in the next month.
Thanks for your patience.

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Edit: This position has been filled, thanks for your interest.
The BikeTrailerShop.com of Flagstaff, AZ has a full-time position
available for a Webstore Sales Manager. Responsibilities include shipping,
customer service, accounting & internet product listing.
Candidates should possess a strong knowledge & passion for cycling.
Business and computer experience preferred.
If you’re interested, please email your resume to us via our [...]

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Here we go. This is the start of my new blog on bicycle cargo trailers.

My intention is to spend some time twice a week presenting a variety of information in the specific niche of bicycle cargo trailers.

The recent growth in this niche area is due both to the upsurge in popularity of bicycle touring as well as a growing appreciation of the bicycle as a transportation tool. Because the bicycle cargo trailer is a vital tool for expanding the use potential of the bicycle, manufacturers have begun manufacturing a growing array of trailers and trailer accessories.

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