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Some cycling blogs are playing this tag game with a series of questions about bikes. I was just tagged by John . I've also read the same set of questions on Tarik and Kent's blogs. I think this tag thing is kind of stupid, but I'll play along (mostly because John was so polite about it)....

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 07-25-2008
A little bit of progress on everything

I have nothing finished to show, but I have progress on the deck, cargo bike, and my bicycle jig. The deck is half done. We were hoping to finish it this weekend but the 90F weather kept us off of the roof. We're also waiting on 5 more boards to be delivered. The new decking is Tigerwood (from Ecohaus...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-29-2008
Saturday morning by bicycle

Last Saturday was my favorite kind of Seattle Saturday morning. I left the house around 8:30 armed with a moderate sized shopping list and a bike trailer. In the next three hours I visited an interesting garage sale (noted because they listed a lathe in their ad) where I bought some useful tools at reasonable...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-27-2008
Badger Lake S24O -- Spokane

I'm visiting with John Speare for a couple of days and last night we did one of his favorite S24O's out to Badger Lake. It's a great ride, with the way out having a mix of gravel and paved rail trails and old dirt/grass roads and the way back having other dirt/grass roads and a nice just...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-13-2008
My new bike project -- Cargo Bike

A year or two ago I drew up this design for a 20" front, 26" rear wheeled cargo bike and posted about it on this blog. This basic design is often called a cycletruck after the classic Schwinn sold around WW2. The idea is that a smaller front wheel leaves more space for a big rack over the front...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 06-06-2008
Seattle Framebuilding Chat

(photo by Alistair Spence, from his flickr site ) A couple of weeks ago I posted a message on the framebuilders list inviting amateur and hobbyist builders to come over to my house for some beers, chips, and to talk about building bikes. Yesterday was the day and Alistair Spence, Dan Boxer, Joe Dube...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 05-25-2008
Great Rack Building Sequence from Alistair Spence

Alistair just finished up this large porteur rack for his tandem and posted an extensive series of photos documenting the process. He also annotated many of them, giving a lot of hints along the way. It's recommended viewing if you are interested in rack building. Some folks have been asking me in...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-30-2008
Easter 2008 Cargo Bike Ride

Perhaps my favorite series of organized bicycle rides in Seattle are the holiday-oriented Cargo Bike Rides. These were started a few years ago by Val Kleitz and have grown to be well attended with a wide variety of bikes (cargo and not). The Cargo Bike series has always skipped the spring because there...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-24-2008
A new way home

I've lived in the same neighborhood for almost 10 years and have been working on the same campus for 12 years. I thought I had explored all of the good options for my bike commute home. On Tuesday I was heading towards the intersection of 140th and 40th where I always turn right and thought "let's...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-20-2008
Freight Pass and Stow bag and prototype rack

One of the coolest booths for me at NAHBS 2008 was from Pass and Stow . Matt Feeney has designed a nice porteur rack that can fit on almost any fork and which has a good size platform (not huge, not tiny) and which can hold panniers too. He also worked with Freight Bags to develop a bag for the rack...

Posted to Alex Wetmore is always busy with something... (Weblog) by AlexWetmore on 03-06-2008

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