Every Day Adventurers

Xtracycle has graced the pages of Bicycling magazine (think the Newsweek of bike media) not once but twice in 2011.

We’ve cropped the two articles onto one page above, which you can download as a .pdf here.

You can also read the full text of the main article at Bicycling’s website here.

Davis, daughter of Xtracycle COO Nate Byerley and star of the 2009 PeaPod promo video called “Scream with Me” learns to ride her own bike in the video below. Only 4, Davis manages to get why riding a bike is so amazing, on her first ride.

Davis learns to pilot her own bike with the help of a ‘revolutionary’ new product called the Gyrowheel, based here in San Francisco. As much as I didn’t want to love a product that electrified the age-old learning to ride a bike challenge, as you can see from this video, it’s amazing. She literally learned to ride a bike in one ride. My throwback curmudgeon-y-ness is overshadowed by a love for a better solution. Training wheels really are no fun. And must on some level be a little humiliating for our youngest riders.

Davis has since graduated from riding in a PeaPod, but her younger brother, just now one, loves riding in the PeaPod III made by GMG (a dutch kid seat company). The PeaPod III is a step up from the PeaPod LT in so many ways, including a EVA-foam hammock design (think Croc cradle), quick-release capability, 4 colors (soon to be 5), and great reflectors behind. See more photos in our store.

We’ll be here, soaking up the sun and bringing the fun.

Life is full of moments. But how many do we remember or feel deeply grateful for?

We have the classics – graduations, weddings, child birth – and some truly memorable everyday adventures.

It may sound corny, but my Xtracycle has a way of showing up in a lot of these moments.

My smartest/luckiest move ever:  marrying Shannon.

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Our son Kale’s first bike ride (in the PeaPod) yesterday – plus, it was the quintessential everyday adventure: grocery shopping!  He was totally juiced and excited all night.  

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I hardly ever blog.  But I had to share these moments with you.  I’d love to hear about yours.

- Ross

Here is an inspiring bit of news featuring an Xtracycle outfitted with electric assist to give the rider a little Xtra get up and go.

Bike based lifestyles take center stage as more people look for ways to beat rising gas prices, have more fun and get in shape at the same dern time!

Go Green & $ave $ome $erious Green with Xtracycle!