Thursday, March 22, 2012

This is what it looks like...

when we ride our bikes.

We continue to be excited by Liz Canning's crowd-sourced cargo bike documentary, (R)Evolutions per Minute.  After months of thinking about it, but not doing anything about it, we finally got a move on this weekend to do some cargo bike filming.  Most exciting, a friend who is a filmmaker kindly volunteered two hours of her time and came over Sunday to film some short interviews we conducted with local cargo-bike-riding families.

Then, one of these folks passed along a mount for a Flip video camera which we could velcro to our handlebars to try and capture some riding footage.  We gave it a go the next day as we rode downtown together.  I rode the Xtracycle, one son on the back, the camera mounted on my handlebars, capturing P in front of me with our two other fellas on the Yuba.  The quality of this video is pretty weak (don't get sick from the shakiness), BUT it does show the ease in which my boys ride on the back of our bikes, interacting with each other and the world around them.


6 comments:

marni said...

Awesome! It was fun to watch you guys pedal together.
We have a Haley Trike (extra long) here in Philadelphia that we tote our three littles around in.
I have one of your purple box bike shirts. It gets lots of comments!

Anonymous said...

ateyeSo nice to hear your voice Sara and those of the family. The boys sure are growing up. I can't believe how old Finn looks now. Crazy. I think they are ready for a Florida vacation next year with a trip to Disney!

Auntie Linda

Anonymous said...

I really enjoyed watching that! Thanks for sharing!!!

Marie-Claire

Jennifer said...

Great ride. The boys look so cute!

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Kathleen said...

So fun! I was just thinking about you and this project and wondering how it was going.

It's nice hearing you chat with your crew as you cruise along.