It seems that Cargo bikes are becoming more popular amongst Bike Commuters, so when the people from Bucket Bike showed up at the Urban Bicycle Commuter Expo we were really excited to talk to them. We talked to Yonni Afman, one of the guys behind Bucket Bike. Here’s Yonni showcasing his personal Bucket Bike:

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So I decided to do a little experiment, I walked into a couple of my local bike shops and pretended to be someone who was interested in riding a bike to work. As you may know, most bike shops cater to recreational road and mountain bike riders, so I wanted to find out if bike [...]

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We met Doug at the Urban Commuter Expo. Super cool guy and we told him about Guest Articles. The fella is quick, he sent me his article on Monday morning. Enjoy!

We all should know that fitness needs to be a daily part of life. Did you know that low intensity high frequency exercise benefits our [...]

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I’m not sure what it is, but I’m starting to see more and more bearded bike commuters out there. Dominic D. of BikeStation in Long Beach Ca. has one. Sheldon Brown had one…and a bunch of other people we saw at the Urban Commuter Expo had them. I’m not talking about a goat t, or [...]

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There were two ‘Green’ companies at the 2008 Urban Bicycle Commuter Expo that caught our attention. The first one is Totally Tubular.

Like RL mentioned,
They take old tires and tubes and make them into something useful such as wallets, purses and bags. The items they had were priced reasonably well, all ranged from $5 to [...]

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Ok BikeCommuters, this is our first installment of Tuesday Deal Days. We wanted to post this up earlier in the week so you can order your stuff now and hopefully get it by the start of your commute for next week.
Based on some of the items you have mentioned, we present to you some [...]

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We’ve got a few new products to review from our crew’s recent trip to Sea Otter: a couple items from the good folks at Cycleaware including their “HotRod” MTB handlebar light –

and their “Heads Up” eyeglass mirror –

In addition, we’ve got a really cool new pair of “Oasis” sunglasses to show off by Ryders [...]

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At this years Urban Commuter Expo, they did some thing totally different from last year, which by the way was super cool…they had live bands playing!
One band that stuck out the most was Fear Mia. Abby Posner and Jesse Clema were on stage playing their great music. Jesse played a wicked violin while Abby strummed [...]

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The Ride of Silence this year is being organized North Orange County Bicycle Advocacy Coalition NOCBAC.org. We will meet at the Downtown Plaza in Fullerton. The same place we have met the last few years. It is locate on Wilshire between Harbor and Pomona next to the Museum (301 N. Pomona ave Fullerton CA 92832) [...]

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We met a nice fella at the expo that showed us his nice home made panniers. It’s a wonderful idea that doesn’t cost more than a bucket of detergent.
He basically took some old detergent buckets (rectangular shaped) and cut the handles bent them and latched it onto the rack.

The lip of the bucket keeps them [...]

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