This is a very belated “Christmas” post, in that it’s now January and our tree has already been composted—unlike many tree hauling folks, we don’t have to bike our tree anywhere but to ...
https://humofthecity.com/2022/01/21/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-year-11-belatedly/
What a year it’s been, that no one could have expected. Everything changes. But we still pick up our tree by bicycle. As I have mentioned on occasion, I work as a professor at the University of...
https://humofthecity.com/2020/12/29/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-year-10/
Hey, it’s another year gone by. We still pick up our Christmas tree by bicycle. This year’s was a bit over six feet tall (~180cm for the rest of the world), reflecting one of the biggest chan...
https://humofthecity.com/2019/12/16/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-year-nine/
I don’t post much anymore, OBVIOUSLY, but we continue doing our thing. Another year on and things are not bad, personally speaking: I got promoted to full professor earlier this year, which was...
https://humofthecity.com/2018/12/10/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-year-8/
Has it been a year? It kind of has. One of the first cargo-type things we did with our first cargo bike, other than carry our own kids (typically one at a time), was to pick up a Christmas tree �...
https://humofthecity.com/2017/12/04/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-our-7th-consecutive-year/
Over the winter break, we got the chance to test ride one of the recent new entrants in the front-loading cargo bike market, the Packster. The New Wheel in San Francisco loaned it to us while the...
https://humofthecity.com/2017/01/04/we-tried-it-riese-muller-packster-60/
Hey. Hey there. I’ve spent a crushing term with an extra-heavy teaching and advising load, and spent all of my writing time working on papers and grant proposals, because that’s my real job. ...
https://humofthecity.com/2016/12/12/christmas-tree-by-bicycle-6th-year-in-a-row/
We’ve ridden with our kids in San Francisco on a near-daily basis since 2011. Over the last five years, we’ve watched the number of family bikers like us skyrocket. Our Bullitt used to draw s...
Our kids, at ages 7 and 10, were still riding on our big bikes at the end of 1st grade and 5th grade last year. It got awkward to carry them both, but it was still doable; that why we … Continu...
https://humofthecity.com/2016/09/19/how-do-you-get-your-kids-on-their-own-bikes/
I used to write posts more often. Part of that was novelty value. The switch from driving everywhere to biking everywhere was pretty exhilarating and there was a lot to learn. There still is, but...