Modal mom: The grocery sherpa
Despite having a Vrtucar membership, I started to do more grocery shopping using my bike and child trailer to add a bit of exercise to my otherwise chair and desk work lifestyle during the week....
View ArticleWant to be a bike rockstar? Get a cargo bike.
You know what people go apey for? Kids in cargo bikes. On our short ride through Centretown to the Arboretum on my new Babboe cargo bike, jaws dropped at every corner as I pedalled two very cute...
View ArticleDoing stuff on a bike: Groceries
Ditch the backpacks and the slinging of bags over your handlebars. You can shop efficiently and effortlessly using your bike. Depending on how much you buy in a single outing, your set-up can be very...
View ArticleBabboe in the rain
The Babboe on its own turns many heads as we ride around town. But when we don the rain cover, our rides turn into a parade of one (well, two if you count my passenger). Pointing. Staring. Oh my...
View ArticleFitting a new basket on the Van Gogh
I went to my local bike shop to buy a basket over the weekend and saw the newest arrivals from Denmark. Velorbis bikes. (Insert oooooh here.) Had I known that my local bike shop was ordering in a...
View ArticleThe ski bike rides again
After the weather ups and downs – deep freeze, thaw, freeze – we finally got a good layer of fresh snow last week and there was no way I was going to miss getting in a ski over the weekend. I am loving...
View ArticleBringing home a garden by bike
In a recent article published in the Ottawa Citizen, the Byward Market BIA says they need more parking for garden shoppers becuase they’re losing out to big box stores where people buy flats of...
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