Heading To Iowa Again This Year

Anyone else doing RAGBRAI this year? Want to see if we can make a little Boston meet-up in the corn?

What’s RAGBRAI you say? See here (2014, 2013, 2012, 2011).

Let me know in the comments.

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Move By Bike!

Last October I built myself a rather fetching bicycle trailer.  This summer I used that bad boy to move every single thing I owned from one part of Somerville down the street about a mile to another part of Somerville.  And let me tell you, it was SO MUCH FUN!!!

As you can see I moved EVERYTHING.  Books, plants, random stuff, furniture, my bed, everything.  The trailer was rock solid, even with several hundred pounds of books in boxes in the back.  There were hills, there were pot holes, there were tight turns, not a single thing fell out.  From a purely mechanical aspect everything was top notch.  When I built the trailer I was worried that it’s weak point would be the hitch connection, and it did get a little stress, but it held up well.  I am going to get a steel plate and bolt it through the first couple rows of cross bars, just to put my mind to rest for future moves.

The whole business took about 4 days, I made about 4 trips a day (sometimes a bit more), the pace was relaxed and I never got too wore out, or too sore from doing everything at once.  I took about a week, but if I had to I could have done it all in a weekend.

This is my second cargo bike move, but the first one I ever did by myself.  People smiled at me from the side of the road, and even from cars. I had a great time and would totally do it again!

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New Forums: Quick Use Them Now Before The New Forum Smell Wears Off

Over the last couple days I have realized that the comments section is just not robust enough to have the kind of discussion the readers of the site seem to be demanding. Therefor I have launched the BostonBiker.org Forums. Astute readers may have noticed the little forum link at the top of the page for the last couple of days, I have left it up there so that I could test the resilience of the forums to spam, and other nasty stuff. It seems to have held up so I am opening the gates to all of you.

If you already have a blog on the site, or already have signed up for a user name you will have an account on the forum, otherwise you can just sign up on the forum home page for an account to partake in the discussion.

Let me know if there are any problems. Also let me know in the suggestions forum if you want more forum topics.

I would hope that we could take some of the long running discussions and move them to the forum, really hash them out and see what comes of it. I hope that this can become a valuable place for people to share information, as well as to discuss things that are hard to work out in comment sections.

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