Entries Tagged 'bikes' ↓

1) Bicycling:

Photograph by Carlton Reid, art by Peter Drew of Adelaide, Australia.

2) Walking

Matt Green walked across America in 152 days.

“But perhaps the thing I find most important about walking is how connected it makes me feel to the space I’m passing through. I think it’s because walking is the way we experience our homes. We walk to the fridge, we walk to bed, we walk around the yard. We walk to the copy machine, we walk to the coffee machine, we walk around the grocery store. So this is that same familiar stride, that most basic form of locomotion we know so well, but through vast, immense, unknown places. It’s a way to live a continuous line across the country as if it were my home.”

(from imjustwalking.com)

We’ve been surviving pretty well for a couple of years with a small, fuel-efficient car for the four of us but if, for example, I was at work and Laura wanted to head to the store, it was getting harder and harder to lever a couple of small surly kids into a bike trailer without some sort of resulting bloodbath.

For about — oh, 4.2 seconds we thought about buying another car — but who are we kidding? This is Portland and we really, really don’t want another car, for a number of reasons. That’s when we found out about Xtracycles.

So this Sunday we got our nerve up and went and bought ourselves an Xtracycle Radish and jerry-rigged another seat onto it. It’s a real beauty. I very much want to see a Mad Max remake with just these type of bikes.

Because of its long wheelbase it’s such a smooth, cadillac of a ride.

I’m very happy to present to you my movie, Levin’s Bicycle.
Levin’s Bicycle originally was shown at the Filmed by Bike film festival in Portland, OR and Celluloid Cycles in Adelaide, Australia.