- Genuine Worksman Adaptable Industrial Trike
- Fully-lugged, one-piece frame
- 450-lbs. payload capacity
- Powerful automotive-type drum brake for front
wheel
- Real-wheel coaster brake with three-speed hub
- A LOCKABLE storage box with with a whopping three
cubic feet of storage capacity at 22"x15"x16" (or, if
you prefer, a 22"x15" steel platform)
- Huge comfy seat, fenders, and chain guard
- A one-year warranty
I own seven bikes and my Worksman trike is my favorite.
It's not just sturdy, it's fun to ride. Here's why you might
want a trike:
- They're balanced. With three wheels, you don't
have to worry about falling over. Great for people with
balance problems or a fear of falling.
- They're easy to ride. The most annoying thing
about a regular bike is having to constantly hopping on
and off the seat every time you stop. But with a trike,
you're sitting, you stop, you're still sitting.
- They're popular. People love the design. When
I ride a regular bike people try to run me over. But when
I'm my trike, it's like I'm a celebrity or
something.
- They're powerful. I've given hundreds of
people rides on my trike (they stand or sit on the rear
platform), sometimes two at a time. I've also attached a
trailer and hauled couches, washing machines, sheetrock
and building materials, you name it. I moved across town
this way, entirely with human power. Here's a picture
of me hauling two tandem trailers with a
Worksman.
Ironically, the trikes are from a General
Motors plant that retooled and liquidated their fleet of 200
or so trikes. Bikes used to make cars -- who would've thunk
it?
Enough blab, let me know if you want one.
Oh, we'll also be at the Cyclecide Rodeo to show them off
(see below).
[Update, Nov. 2003: We're all sold out. They moved as fast as we could fix them up. No more to be had, sorry.]
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Cyclecide Bike Rodeo
this
weekend
This Saturday and Sunday is the
Cyclecide
Bike Rodeo at the new Ruta Maya, 3601-D S.
Congress. (Noon to 8pm both days, and it's free.) Here's
how Ruta Maya describes it:
"If running down a crowded narrow Mexican street
alongside bull-shaped floats packed with exploding fireworks
sounds like a good time to you, you're not alone. The punks
of San Francisco's Cyclecide are gearing up for their annual
tour / detour to the Tultepec Pyrotechnics Festival in
Mexico --but they're making a few stops along the way to
spread the Message of the Reconstituted Bike. For two days,
Austin's venerable Ruta Maya Cafe will be transformed into a
full-on interactive BIKE RODEO, featuring live bands, stupid
acts, glamorous rodeo clowns, and plenty of balls-out
bicycle mayhem. Participants can try their luck on wheeled
monstrosities like the Bike Ferris Wheel, Bike Carousel,
Dizzy Toy, Lawn Mower Bike, Spanking Bike, Chupacabra,
Golden Gate Bike, and the infamous pyrotechnic-packed
Homeland Security Bike. Idiots within the Cyclecide crew
will cheat death (maybe) with some tall-bike jousting. If
that's not enough, Los Banos, the Bike Rodeo's official
band, will bust out eardrums as bones get broken. All in the
name of the almighty bicycle."
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Car-Free
UT
UT plans to remove cars from the
inner campus and re-establish the core as a safe haven for
pedestrians. This will be a slow process, taking decades,
but the work has already started, such as the closure of
part of Speedway between 21st & 26th/Dean Keeton to cars
-- and, controversially to even bicycles.
UT says: "Under the new master plan, all
daily traffic and parking will be removed from Inner Campus
Drive, Speedway, and 24th St. between Whitis Avenue and
Speedway. These streets will become pedestrian right-of-way
and will, over time, be redesigned withnew and more
pedestrian-friendly walking surfaces, landscape elements,
street furniture, and lighting. Parking spaces displaced
from these streets will be replaced in new, carefully
designed structures that will include parking for the
disabled, and be built in or near the central part of the
campus. Service traffic will be restricted to specific times
of day and destinations. Conflicts between pedestrians and
cyclists will be resolved by creating separate bicycle lanes
and establishing a dismount zone within the 40 Acres where
all bicycles will be walked. In time, Speedway, to be
renamed North Congless Street, will become a central
location for informal gathering and food service, featuring
a vital, densely populated, accessible and accommodating
linear plaza with both hard and soft landscaping. Its
redesign will establish it both as a daily source of casual
interaction and as the site of street fairs and special
events, such as the 40 Acres Festival."
The UT Master Plan is online,
though it's not optimized for computer screens and is kind
of hard to navigate and read.
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Pedal-powered
computers in Laos
Lee Thorn served as a bomb loader for
Navy warplanes that flew missions over Laos during the
Vietnam War. Now he's trying to help the villagers of Ban
Phon Kham, Laos build their local economy and get wired to
the world, by setting up a computer network for Internet
access. Interestingly, the computers will be powered by
bicycles. (read
more)
Motorists charged to
enter Central London
This week London, England made history
by charging an $8 fee to motorists entering Central London,
with the goals of reducing congestion and pollution. It also
plans to funnel the fees towards improving the city's ailing
public transportation system. Initial reports say the plan
is successful, dramatically reducing congestion on the
city's overcrowded streets.
The idea is "radical", but only in the sense
that it hasn't been tried before, at least not on this
scale. In common-sense terms, it's actually quite
practical.
That's not to say it's without controversy.
Rather than having toll booths, motorists are expected to
pay an the honor (honour?) system, and police catalog the
license plates of all the cars with security cameras posted
throughout the city, sending fines to motorists who haven't
paid. This raises obvious questions about privacy.
Several Internet sources note that traffic
in London today moves at less than 10 mph, virtually
unchanged since the days of the horse and buggy 100 years
ago. (read
more)
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Free bike ads
Ads are FREE for
individuals and run for four months or until you tell me to
remove it. Please keep it to four lines, don't write a
novel. :)
- 2002 Giant Rincon: 17" Frame
(Red). In good condition. Entry level Shimano
components. Will include new brake cables. $150
10-02
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- Miyata 6-10 steel touring bike,
57 mm frame, Suntour/Sugino parts, rack and bag,
needs new tires: $150.
,
453-0438
10-02
Zullo steel racing / track
bike, 56 mm frame, all Campy parts, derailer gearing
but has one-speed dropouts for fixed gear conversion, in
good shape expect for torn decal, $250.
,
453-0438
10-02
2001 model Marin Larkspur.
17.5". Aluminum frame, Shimano components, lock,
lights, shock seat post. Great transportation. Recently
purchased for $350 (have receipt), will sell for $250.
Excellent condition, like new. 512-476-2887 or
512-689-9266.
10-02
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Used
inventory at Waterloo
Cycles
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Inventory as of
Feb. 20, 2003. All bikes subject to prior sale,
limited to stock on hand, not responsible for
typographical errors, prices may change without
notice, batteries not included.
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- $199 KHS Montana Crest 20"
- $229 Diamondback Sorrento 16"
- $369 Haro Extreme Comp 19.5"
- $399 KHS Montana Comp 19"
- $399 Diamondback Response 14"
- $549 Kona Lava Dome 20"
- $699 Cannondale F400 21"
- $699 Kona Sex One 20"
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- $ 99 Alpine Sporten 15"G
- $549 Fuji Opus III 49cm
- $269 Schwinn 454 53cm
- $549 Bianchi Campione 54cm
- $799 Specialized Allez A1 54cm
- $499 Specialized Sirrus 58cm
- $599 Diamondback Expert 58 cm
- $99 Schwinn Aerostar
- $129 Diamondback Impression
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That's all,
thanks for reading!
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I did it, I went to Oklahoma with my friend
Jeremy Rosen and we bought a bunch of Worksman industrial
trikes and hauled them back to Austin. You'll be happy to
know that the truck we used runs on propane which burns much
cleaner than gasoline and isn't imported from the
mideast.
Easy
Street Recumbents