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A Radish A Day - Days 3 & 4

Jessy Clonts, our neighbor in the Bay Area, test rode a Radish for 30-days this spring. This is a journal about her expectations, experiences and feedback. Enjoy!


Day 3

Didn’t ride the Radish today.

Day 4

Rode the Radish to the gym again. The ride down was nothing to write home about, but the ride back was kind of hellatious. Maybe it was the 30 minutes I spent on the elliptical after bouldering for an hour, and maybe it was the gale force winds I was pedaling into on the way back uphill, but my legs were jelly. Almost toast.

Jessy Enjoying Her Radish LongTail

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Riding Home the Other Night…

… I came to a four way stop. A four way stop where from all four ways, cars want to get onto the freeway. To go home. On our way home. From a day of work.

And so, I stopped. And waited. And watched as each way had their turn. And then it was my turn. And I went. Straight ahead. Next to a car that was going straight ahead. Because it’s better that way - to ride with a car sometimes, so that no other cars from any of the other three ways, hit you - because while they may not see you on the bike, they’ll at least see the car.

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But the car gassed it and flew away from me fast. And there I was, in the middle of the intersection, alone. And while I was there,  in the middle of the intersection, a black mercedes drove into the intersection and we made contact. My front wheel to her bumper and my right side to her hood.

And it was in slow motion. Slow enough that I knew and felt and thought about how she was going to hit me. And if I would get hurt. She never looked at me.

Afterwards. I stood there staring at her and she rolled down the window. And before I said anything, she said calmly, I didn’t even see you.

And I said, I know, you didn’t look my way, you just went. And she said, I’m so sorry, I didn’t even see you. And we just looked at each other. And I said, you HAVE to look. We’re out here. We’re everywhere. We’re here.

Look for us.

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And she said, I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.

We spoke calmly to each other. Like we were in line. At the grocery store. And cars were lining up at all the stops while we were in the middle of the intersection. We were talking. Not yelling. Not angry. We were there, just talking. And everything around us was frozen. Time stood still.

In the middle of the intersection.

And then someone honked, for us to get out the way. And  she squeezed my arm. And I squeezed her shoulder. And we both continued on our way, in separate directions. Home.

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Carrying Kids by Xtracycle

A few great videos from of users and their kids traveling by Xtracycle.

Xtracycle is busy working on an Xtracycle specific kid carrying system that will allow folks to carry 1 kid or two, and have specific seats for toddlers/kids above 40 lbs. We’ll keep you posted on this process and we hope to have these in production in early 2009. Until then, folks are using the PeaPod ($229) for the little ones and Magic Carpet ($39) + Footsies ($59) + Stoker Bar ($75) for the bigger kids.

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