This Mothers Day weekend, a salute to the mothers who tote their kids around town in and on various kinds of mutant, youngster-friendly cycles. And a special tip of the hat to those of you who blog about it, inspiring others through your words, images, example.
Anne from Car Free Days.
The boys from the Hands Full blog.
Jasper in his Most Civilized Conveyance.
There are lots of wonderful blogs being kept by cycling families – I’ll start with this fine list from Julian’s blog TotCycle, which is a great resource. Give these blogs a click, and feel free to post any I missed in the comments.
But mostly, Mothers Day gives me an excuse to feature this excellent video recently posted by Seattle bike-blogging compatriots Car Free Days and borrowed shamelessly for your viewing pleasure. They write:
Now that our kids are getting older, they don’t always ride on the back of the Xtracycles. They are both confident road riders and are quite capable of riding their own bikes. But, sometimes they take a ride on the Snapdeck. Usually because it’s night or we’re traveling farther than they think they can ride or our destination requires pedaling on busy roads or they just feel like chilling on the back of the bike with a book.
When they choose to be a Snapdeck passenger, I usually tell them to wear running shoes. Cause even the most seasoned Snapdeck rider needs to get off, stretch his/her legs and take a little run from time to time:
Happy Mothers Day!
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atta mom! make him run a little ways!
Thanks Tom!
I wouldn’t do it if it wasn’t fun. We all enjoy getting around on 2 wheels!
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