We love the Sprockettes. Here are a few of them hamming it up aboard the ShuttleBug at the BTA’s Alice Awards earlier this month. See theBTA’s full Bug photoshoot here.
A Stop Cycles Proletariat at the start of a long, useful life in Sacramento.
Here’s Grasshopper, a Joe Bike Workahaulic/Shopahaulic double-decker cargo bike and a cousin of the ShuttleBug, chilling in his habitat over Memorial Day weekend as he waits for parts.
With almost no signage and lots of distractions up and down the street, our shop at 3953 SE Hawthorne is easily overlooked. Telling people it’s right next door to Linus Pauling’s childhood house is of limited help. As soon as the rain stops, we’re giving the outside of the building a makeover, and with it a new logo. These signs will be mounted to the 28″ rim of a roadster, which in turn will be mounted up high on the wall, perpendicular to the street.
Totcycle, a blog about family biking written by a Seattle pediatrician, has posted an informative piece on finding and fitting helmets for very small kids. Their favorite, and ours, is Bern, but several brands are discussed.
Here’s a Joe Bike customer making the most of the Torker Cargo-T’s abilities as a smaller-scale but sturdy work/family bike. The Cargo-T is usually overlooked by our customers, who gravitate toward the better-known Mundo, XtraCycle, ShuttleBug, and Boxbike, but we like its combination of short wheelbase, low stepthrough frame, stable ride, low price, and the ability to have front and rear child seats while also making use of the strong front and rear racks. Shown above is our own build of the Cargo-T: an 8-speed internal hub instead of the typical 3-speed, front and rear drum brakes, Bobike Mini with windscreen/bugshield, Maxi Plus in the back, capacitor-equipped front and rear Reelights, skirt guard, chainguard, rainproof bags…and an optional multifunction office machine including a laser printer/fax/scanner/copier/telephone—technology that, to our knowledge, no other cargo bike offers.
For many decades Ceres, the goddess of grain, has stood proudly above the Chicago Board of Trade building, maintaining balance over her domain by making sure that Midwestern droughts are followed by Midwestern floods and then back again. Now Canada’s Norco brand has gotten her into cycling. Specifically, she’s a high-performance urban commuter that’s corn-silky smooth, rainproof, droughtproof, genetically unmodified, and very low maintenance: Gates carbon belt drive, Shimano Alfine 8-speed internal hub, disc brakes. Perfectly suited for Portland. Rides like she’s just eaten a bowl of Wheaties. New shipment just in. $1165.
A reporter from Discovery Channel’s Treehugger visited Joe Bike on Saturday and Sunday to put the Yuba Mundo and our own ShuttleBug through their paces. The result: Both were named among the top 5 kid/cargo bikes available…and the ShuttleBug was singled out as the champagne of them all.
The Shopahaulic’s new self-limiting kickstand is neither bolted to the frame nor part of it. When retracted, it’s held by neither spring nor latch. So how does it work? Some sort of magnetic vortex core reversal by excitation with short bursts of an alternating field, you ask? Maybe. Or maybe you should just stop in and see for yourself. 
Our handmade-in-Portland, belt-drive ShuttleBug made its debut at PedalNation’s bike show this past weekend. The reaction has been excellent. Please see this Bikeportland.org story.
The bike shown in the photos is at the shop and available for test rides for those interested in placing an order. We’re working hard to get into production mode.
