MOTOBECANE BIKE TRAILER. PIKES PEAK MOUNTAIN BIKE TOURS
Motobecane Bike Trailer
- A bicycle trailer is a motorless wheeled frame with a hitch system for transporting cargo by bicycle. It can greatly increase a bike’s cargo capacity, allowing point-to-point haulage of objects up to 4 cubic yards (3 cubic meters) in volume that weigh as much as half-a-ton.
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- Motobécane was a French manufacturer of bicycles, mopeds, motorcycles, and other small vehicles, established in 1923. “Motobécane” is a compound of “moto”, slang for motorcycle; “bécane” is slang for “bike.”
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Chauffering Mom at Portland Sunday Parkways – Laurelhurst park
Portland opened many miles of streets to non-combustion powered traffic for the third of the 2009 Sunday Parkways in SE Portland. My family was visiting from California. I wanted to show them everything along the route, but my mom has mobility limitations. While Gwen and Chad went riding on their own and shopping on Belmont and Hawthorne, my mom, D’arby and I rode the route, with D’arby on my sapphire-blue Motobecane mixte and my mom in a Blue Sky cargo trailer, kicking back in a lawn chair. She was very hesitant at first, and tried to refuse, but I held firm that she would enjoy the ride, so eventually she acquiesced and boarded my trailer. As I suspected, plenty of people agreed it was "the way to ride" — we got lots of jealous commentary. Mom (and D’arby and I) enjoyed experiencing all the lawn parties, bake sales, lemonade stands, free bundles of lavendar, dj’s, bands, barbecues, yard sales, tall bikes, booths, free drinks and snacks (hibiscus cooler, and hot dogs from Mia Birk’s house!), costumes, flowering gardens, bubble-blowing, chalk art and street fairs!
Mom also enjoyed telling the joke that usually you see a mom with a child in the trailer, and this time you saw a child with the mom in the trailer. She asked one boy riding an Xtracycle whether he would do this for his mom when he grew up. His mom chuckled with glee.
Chauffering Mom at Portland Sunday Parkways
Portland opened many miles of streets to non-combustion powered traffic for the third of the 2009 Sunday Parkways in SE Portland. My family was visiting from California. I wanted to show them everything along the route, but my mom has mobility limitations. While Gwen and Chad went riding on their own and shopping on Belmont and Hawthorne, my mom, D’arby and I rode the route, with D’arby on my sapphire-blue Motobecane mixte and my mom in a Blue Sky cargo trailer, kicking back in a lawn chair. She was very hesitant at first, and tried to refuse, but I held firm that she would enjoy the ride, so eventually she acquiesced and boarded my trailer. As I suspected, plenty of people agreed it was "the way to ride" — we got lots of jealous commentary. Mom (and D’arby and I) enjoyed experiencing all the lawn parties, bake sales, lemonade stands, free bundles of lavendar, dj’s, bands, barbecues, yard sales, tall bikes, booths, free drinks and snacks (hibiscus cooler, and hot dogs from Mia Birk’s house!), costumes, flowering gardens, bubble-blowing, chalk art and street fairs!
Photo by D’arby!
