Learn to build a sturdy cargo trailer for your bicycle

From the February, 2009 issue

EUGENE – The Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) and Human Powered Machines (HPM) is offering a series of workshops on building high-quality bicycle trailers. Participants will learn basic fabrication skills and come away with a finished trailer frame and hitch.generic viagra levitra and cialis pills Aspirin And Viagra “can i take viagra”
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CAT launches cargo bike frame building apprenticeship

From the February, 2009 issue

EUGENE – You’ve probably heard of UBI and Barnett. Now the Center for Appropriate Transport (CAT) and Human Powered Machines (HPM) are introducing the first cargo frame building school in the States. Started in 1990, Human Powered Machines led the current revival of cargo bikes, trikes and trailers in the USA. This program will [...]

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Racing bikes illustrated

From the December, 2008 issue

by David Feldman
The Competition Bicycle: A Photographic History
by Jan Heine, 2008
Vintage Bicycle Press, hardcover, 176 pages. $60
From high wheels to fat mountain bike tires, on roads, tracks, dirt paths and rocky trails, short sprints to ultra marathon distances, bicycles have been raced for as long as they have existed in any form.
There have been books [...]

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Fastest man on land claims water too

From the October, 2008 issue

No person in history has traveled farther on flat water under his own power in one day than Greg Kolodziejzyk [ko LA jezik]. On September 9th, 2008 Greg pedaled his human powered boat, the Critical Power 2, 245.16 km (151.3 miles) around a circular lake course on Whitefish Lake in Montana, beating kayaker Carter Johnson’s [...]

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Ashland welcomes custom framebuilders

From the September, 2008 issue

by Karl Benedek
United Bicycle Institute and the Oregon Bicycle Constructors Association present the first ever Southern Oregon Custom Bicycle Show, Saturday, September 13 from 9am to 4pm on the grounds of United Bicycle Institute, 401 Williamson Way, Ashland, Oregon.
The day headlines with a show of classy, creative custom bikes from Oregon, Washington and California frame [...]

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My bike is reverse-engineered

From the January, 2008 issue

by Ed Zacharek, age 16
Howdy there. I’m Ed Zacharek. I’ve been going to school at the Center for Appropriate Transport for around five years now, and I’m writing to tell you about my latest project, a bike I built from parts and tubes donated to CAT by Burley.
What happened was, Burley decided to stop making [...]

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What I learned in school this year

From the July, 2007 issue

Or, how I built a recumbent bike in six months
by Nolan Chase, age 16

Building a bike, frame and all, is a long, difficult process, unless you are set up for production work. With two, three-hour classes a week in which I’ve been able to work on my bike, I’ve been working on it for 6 [...]

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A visit with Joseph Ahearne

From the May, 2007 issue

by Nolan Chase, age 16
When we were in Portland for Filmed by Bike this spring, we had the opportunity to visit with framebuilder Joseph Ahearne, of Ahearne Cycles, in his Portland workshop. It’s a small shop, which he shares with a man who converts cars to biodiesel, and it’s where he builds his bicycles. Ahearne [...]

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Discover the joys of a custom fit

From the January, 2007 issue

by Tom Baldinger
Are you comfortable when you ride? Do your wrists or neck ache? Simple changes can make a huge difference in riding comfort. Most mountain bikes are sold with riser bars these days, because the higher position and backward sweep are easier on the wrists and enable better control. Bicycle seats have evolved enough [...]

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Riding the rails with human power

From the May, 2006 issue

by William Ross, age 15
We recently built a railbike here at CAT for a private landowner in Deadwood named Ray Robinson. Ray is a landscaper and a former professional railman who has built himself a Grand Scale railroad on his property called the Meadows and Lake Kathleen Railroad. Hobbyists consider Grand Scale railroads to be [...]

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