Transportation Cycles

Bicycling is a big part of the future. It has to be. There’s something wrong with a society that drives a car to workout in a gym. -Bill Nye, the Science Guy

Zize Xtracycle Conversion

When looking a donor bicycle for the conversion to an Xtracycle long tailed bike, here are some key things to look for to make sure your bike is up to the task of supporting you and your load: A Heavy-duty Steel Frame: You can’t break or crack it, and it supports your weight plus just about [...]

Carrying Your iPhone on Your Bike

I wrote this article an while back and posted it to the Schlick Cycles website. I made a few edits and added some details here. It is about the methods I’ve used to try to carry my iPhone while I bike and, since the 3G iPhone I own has a pretty reliable GPS, how to [...]

What is With Those HUGE Tires on the Schlick Smitty?

Those monster tires are called Schwalbe Big Apples and the guys at Schlick Cycles are using the biggest of the big, 28 x 2.35 rollers on the Smitty. Don’t worry though, through some very smart engineering these tires have low rolling resistance while giving you the advantage of pot-hole sucking action a good city tire [...]