Living Car Free - Car free with a bakfiets in L.A.

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ubrayj02
09-18-08, 02:14 PM
I bought a bakfiets late last year before the birth of my daughter.

I just posted some more photos online (on Flickr) to show some of the stuff I've hauled, and what sorts of things you can do with these awesome machines from Azor bikes in the Netherlands.


Click on the image below to see the photos I shot over the past couple of months:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3148/2868473084_2f606b2abd.jpg?v=0 (http://flickr.com/photos/ubrayj02/sets/72157603569535466/)

Nightshade
09-18-08, 03:52 PM
Awesome Dude! Just Awesome!!:thumb::thumb::thumb:
urban_assault
09-20-08, 11:52 PM
Great stuff. Thanks.

Elkhound
09-23-08, 01:09 PM
Are you the same person who wrote the essay on Bicyclefixation on the subject?
bikinpolitico
09-23-08, 03:19 PM
Well done! I just test rode one at Clever Cycles while I was in Portland, and if I didn't already have my Xtracycle all tricked out, I'd definitely look at one.
hotwheels
09-23-08, 03:28 PM
Very nice! Thanks for sharing.
bikinpolitico
09-23-08, 03:44 PM
I just put up this picture with my article about Clever Cycles. Are we having fun or what?
http://austinbikeblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/a_e_bakfietsm.jpg
bmike
09-23-08, 05:06 PM
congrats. great photos.
they are amazing machines... for sure.

we're car lite here in burlington, vt. not sure we'll ever quite get to car free... but a car share program just started.

we took delivery of our bak before our daughter arrived.

http://lh6.ggpht.com/mike.beganyi/SFbQm-TY5yI/AAAAAAAAE3Y/rgcDzGK432A/Photo_061308_011.jpg?imgmax=800


more on the blog. (http://littlecircles.blogspot.com/)
gerv
09-23-08, 09:41 PM
Is that car seat secured to the box?
bmike
09-24-08, 07:23 AM
Is that car seat secured to the box?

yes.
i attached the base with the straps that attach to the hooks in a car. used a few eye bolts and added foam under the head end to take some of the bump out.

she's too little to sit upright in the bak on the bench seat... so for now she rides in her car seat. she started traveling in the bak @ 2 1/2 months.

more information here.
(http://littlecircles.blogspot.com/search/label/bakfiets)