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The wheels on the ... bike? ... go 'round

Brian | 3:40 a.m. May 16, 2008

Fantastic! Now is the time for cities to integrate cycling into their infrastructures. There are many pay-offs and all of the sudden we wouldn't be so "backward". Great bike! I have a tandem but your bike will shuttle multiple rugrats. Now to get the local speed demons to have some respect for life and SLOW DOWN................

Sandy-ite | 8:31 a.m. May 16, 2008

Awesome! I live in east Sandy, and I can't tell you how many times I have wished there was a sidewalk available so I could bike down to the grocery store with my kids. Alas, there is not a sidewalk or bike path near Larkin Cemetery, nor going west to meet 1300 S. People sometimes walk, but it is definitely perilous, and there is not room for bikers with children.

Let's get moving forward on biking and walking paths!!

K | 8:31 a.m. May 16, 2008

And they ALL have helmets on!

Yay!

By the way, I would looove a bike like that!

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Evan E | 8:35 a.m. May 16, 2008

I think this rocks! It's amazing how it's taken gas to reach nearly $4.00 a gallon for people to take transportation into their own hands ! It's a wonderful idea ! I myself ride my old 10-speed whenever I can !

Jens | 8:41 a.m. May 16, 2008

"I call it my minivan"

Unfortunately, your bike is not a minivan. There is a reason that so many families in Utah drive minivans -- because they have 4+ kids to drive around. You can't do that on a bike -- even in your Euro cargo bike.

Also, I'd like to see Ms. Woods pedaling her "minivan" around the rock-salt and slush covered streets of Orem during the months of November to April.

That's why we use cars here. Because we have plenty of kids and because the wind-chill factor in Januray is not very nice for a two-year old.

Paul Buhler | 8:42 a.m. May 16, 2008

I live in Uintah County, and I enjoy riding my bike, but trying to get the County to enforce the law about dogs on leashes is almost impossible. I live on a street where there is at least 20 dogs that at any given time are not controlled by their owners and if you ride a bike down the street at least half of them will come out into the street and try to bite you. Uintah County, Control your Dogs. The county records more dog bites then any other county.

Rex Bicycle | 8:56 a.m. May 16, 2008

Yes, this is the future. All this talk about fuel economy neglects addressing changing habits. Instead addressing the fuel problems directly we create more problems for ourselves by attempting to avoid the simplest solutions.
More mass trasit. Who on the earth needs to haul their 200 pound frame around with a 2,000 pound car on a 500 million dollar highway? The numbers just don't add up.

Fan | 8:57 a.m. May 16, 2008

Go Woods!

Mahershalalhashbaz | 9:07 a.m. May 16, 2008

Biking is not safe enough to expect people in mass to do. It's very dangerous. I mean think of the dangerous cars people don't want to drive due to crash tests. Well, a crash test with a bike (helmet included)..... No thanks. I will continue to drive everywhere. My life/kids lives are worth the extra money.

I worry about safety | 9:08 a.m. May 16, 2008

I actually bike commute off and on. I recently got hit by a car riding to work. I came out OK, but with a big long silly bike and 2 kids, one of us would have been on a stretcher. I think we need to get more bike friendly corridors and get the awareness out. People just don't always expect a bike on the road. Biking for transportation really is great and does not take that much time. It take me 1 hour to ride 17 miles to work. In a car, that is 40-70 minutes depending on traffic. Average 30 minutes extra per day commute time, but I save an hour in the gym! Now if I could just get cars to stop hitting me.

jr | 11:01 a.m. May 16, 2008

funny thing is I as a young adult used to bike all over, used to carry my own shopping bags to get my groceries and walk half a mile to the store, with the extremity in climate and the poor street planning for pedestrians (sidewalks) in various parts of the valley biking and walking are not always the safest bet We can drive but we need to be more conscious of how much we drive

Necessity | 2:11 p.m. May 16, 2008

"Necessity is the mother of invention!" What I love is all the different ways we can get creative about saving gas! Mass transit is a great idea for people who need to go into cities. Biking is great when you live where you can do it (we're 8 miles out of town with a narrow, heavily travelled highway and no shoulders, although some people do bike along it--I wouldn't with kids). Walking is great, too. Car pooling is a good idea, and so is combining trips to town and going less frequently. For us, we've found a tremendous gas savings in just SLOWING DOWN. Three of us travel 80 miles to Tucson once a week and have found a nearly 4 mile per gallon savings (including out town driving) just by driving 50 on the highway and 60-65 on the freeway. And it takes less than five minutes longer.
When we divorce the American's image from his car, and see cars as transportation again, we'll be well on our way.

Necessity again | 2:14 p.m. May 16, 2008

Sorry for the typo--that's including our in town driving in the average.

Like the idea but... | 2:19 p.m. May 16, 2008

So I thought it would be a great idea to commute to work today on my bike. Unfortunately, someone opened their car door just as I was passing and I smashed into their door and got bucked off the bike.

That was my first day. Not so sure road biking is worth endagering my life. I'll stick to the mountain trails where I am in control of my life.

Concerned Grampa | 12:17 a.m. May 17, 2008

There is a reason that small children a BELTED in the back seat of a car need I say more.

When this little girl is 14 and has to go to an early morning school event how well will this mode of transportation do then.

Last but not least I agree that there should be more pedestrian and bycycle friendly roads, just don't expect to pay for it with my gas tax. Get with the powers that be to make a tax on food or what ever it is that is used to power these things and pay for it that way.

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Jenni Woods of Orem pedals her children Ian, front, and Abbi home from the dentist's office. Jenni and her husband, Brad Woods, ride their bicycles most places.

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