New cargo bike business wants to protect your windows
Scott Baermann cleans windows at Ipsento on a sunny September afternoon.
Scott Baermann has been in the window cleaning business for 10 years, mostly in northern Indiana. He operated that business from afar when he moved to Chicago in 2006. Earlier this year he took on his friend Ryan Hoban as a partner. But the [...]
Grid Shots: Copenhagen cargo bikes
A woman pedals her “short john” cargo bike across the world’s busiest bike intersection.
According to Mikael Colville-Anderson, there are about 40,000 cargo bikes in the municipalities of Frederiksburg, where he and his company, Copenhagenize Consulting, live, and Copenhagen, the city where I’ve been for 5 days now.
And Saturday we [...]
Cargo Bike Roll Call is an opportunity to test cool bikes and grow community
The author and his mother. Ed. note: I asked Calvin Brown to write a review of the Cargo Bike Roll Call so that I didn’t end up reviewing my own event.
Last Saturday, June 9, 2012, was Cargo Bike Roll Call (second edition), which means that I finally got to ride a cargo bike for the [...]
The Grid Network is deprecated, but the links page lives on
The CTA Morgan Green/Pink Line station will open this month. Photo by Seth Anderson.
I’ve stopped updating the Grid Network page; no new posts since mid-April appear there. I coded the function myself and it was using too many server resources to operate, slowing down the website. The Network was build on top of our [...]
Ride with me on the journey to deliver beehives across the city
Three beehives are ready to go.
On April 3, 2012, I joined Jana Kinsman (Bike-A-Bee; read our story from January) and Brandon Gobel (Chicago Cargo) to deliver three beehives on the west and south sides of Chicago. Scroll through this photo essay to join us, or watch this slideshow (22 photos, [...]
Chicago’s first Cargo Bike Roll Call
Monday’s Cargo Bike Roll Call at West Town Bikes, organized by my Grid Chicago co-blogger Steven Vance, went as well as could possibly been have hoped for. The event was a chance for proud cargo bike owners to show off their vehicles, for newbies to learn what cargo biking is all about and for [...]