Summer Memories ~ Ride to Day on The Farm

In May, Edible Pedal organized a group ride to 'A Day on the Farm' at Soil Born Farm, a local, organic farm. The ride from Edible Pedal was approx. 15 miles, and mostly on the American River Bike Trail.  Brian and I rode about 40 miles that day, and had a great time!

We spotted these wild turkeys right off the bike trail on our trip home. Had to stop and admire for a few minutes.

trike progress

I've been getting a lot done on my trike project. Its almost finished except for a few small pieces that I need to make.

 I decided to go ahead and make a coroplast tailbox for it, Just need to make a lid and figure out how to hold it to the trike.

I'll be running 12v rear lighting that I made from some broken tail lamps out of various cars that I have worked on at my day job.

Poler

Poler is a pretty cool company making outdoor gear.  I'm a big fan of the napsack, even though I don't have one yet. I'm not sure I would ever take it off. Check them out, www.polerstuff.com.

Electric assist cargo trike

I sold my car a couple months back, so Monica and I have been sharing her car and commuting on our bikes as much as possible. I've been trying to figure out the best option for me to live car free and be able to commute 40 miles per day. I've been riding an xtracycle with e-assist but its time for something more comfortable so I've been building this.....

The plan is to house the battery in the space behind the seat, below the top tube, and use the space on top of the tube for cargo, possibly build racks for panniers. The long term plans are to build a coroplast tail box and attach a front fairing.

This weekend I worked on the front steering booms and made the seat frame. The seat will be mesh fabric.

Whole Earth Festival

For the past 42 years UC Davis has held the Whole Earth Festival. It's an annual, weekend long event about 25 miles away from us. We went Saturday and saw Clan Dyken, walked around the vendor area (where we were motivated to make leather shoes and sew), ate, and became entranced by the drum circle and kept being pulled back to it. The whole event screams peace, freedom, love and makes me wish every day was a Whole Earth Festival.

This girl was very bendy and jingly

Cob Making

Drum Circle Love

new cargo bike

I've been working on a new cargo bike in my spare time. This one is built from two mountain bike frames, a broken pressure washer (the cargo platform), some new steel, and some scrap steel. I'm not happy with a few small things but overall its turning out pretty cool. I plan on using this for rolling advertisement for Carsick Designs. The bicycle film festival makes a stop here in a week and I'm hoping to have it on the road by then.

Lazy Days of Winter

Stretch......Yawn.....Stretch..... I'm slowly awakening from my winter hibernation. The shortened daylight and cold temperatures of winter took their toll on my motivation and desire to do anything but the temperatures are rising and the daylight hours have already extended. I'm so happy about this.

Sitting here late at night blogging, the only one up, I miss this. These past months, when the thought of writing a post crosses my mind I conclude I have nothing to write about. Which is still somewhat true but blogging is like most things. The more you do it the more you want to do it.

Something new that we've experienced lately is wild meat. We were given wild boar, elk, and deer from someone we know who hunts. The wild boar (a smoked slab, breakfast sausage and roast) went first and we had the elk steak tonight. First time I've eaten elk and I really liked it.

Looking forward to the lazy days of summer.

Monica