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I finally installed my Ragtop Canopy on the Urban Brute the recumbent trike that I use for Small Haul NYC cargo bike service in lower Manhattan. I was able to install the Ragtop in high winds and driving rain by myself. It took about 15 minutes to get it all lashed down and ready to go.

I was really happy to have finally installed it on the Urban Brute, yet a little weary about going out in the really stormy weather that we often get in Battery Park City, but it held up really well.

I can highly recommend this product for any of you that are slightly bent. With the addition of a front fairing you should be able to ride in anything Mother Nature dishes out!

If you’d like to give one a test ride on your own bike, by appointment, come down with your Bent and I’ll install it for you! Use it for a couple hours and see how you like it.

You can purchase the Ragtop Canopy right here on our website!

Oh yeah… BTW

If you’re in Downtown Manhattan and are in need of a local delivery feel free to contact Small Haul NYC through this website as well!

Here are some products we might be making available to you in the near future.

The Long John

Kyle is a cargo bike builder from Human Powered Machines in Oregon. He’s come to NYC to set up shop and start production of the Long John Child/Cargo Carrier. Not only did he come to NYC he rode one of his Long John’s here from the west coast!

We are discussing partnering and getting his product out on the market in NYC this spring! The Long John is made in USA. It’s way lighter and much less expensive than the Dutch version.

Contact us at Urban Mobility Project for more info such as custom child box and weather protection!

We also got a visit from AZUB Recumbent, well established  in the Czech Republic. Looking to build a state side presence. They showed up with a double suspension two wheeler and a very speedy looking fold-able trike!

Pedestrian safety monitors on Brooklyn Bridge?

These couple of days have brought everyone out on the bikeway. From cargo bikers to the physically challenged!

You can take your family anywhere with the right cycle!

They figured out how to get out on bikes – Great set-up!

Look inside the trailer!

Hand-Cyclists on their way, cool Trikes...Central Park - NYC

Friends from Nahant, MA – on the EZ Tandem in Central Park

Even though I was out with friends and family I just couldn’t resist snapping some photos!

Thrilled MS rider completes 15 mile ride on our EZ3 Trike.

Everyone getting along - Times Square - NYC

I always see black car drivers spending the whole day sitting and waiting for their masters, all day long. Some of them even a sleep. I always thought I should offer to rent them a bike for an hour or two!

Why long-haul truckers are turning to bikes, and spandex

Truckers now have an alternative to sitting around a truck stop. A movement to encourage them to ride bikes as an antidote to their sedentary life is gaining speed. Scott Grenerth owns and operates an 18-wheeler, which he drives cross-country hauling thousands of pounds of cargo. His truck also carries something lightweight, which most truckers don’t carry: a bike.

Read more…

Next thing you know they’ll be using Cargo Bikes to do inner city deliveries!

Martha’s Vineyard has the perfect infrastructure to be as car free as possible. It’s so much fun vacationing there year after year with all of our friends and family. Navigating the island on any HPV is just thrilling.

This article comes from my friend and Velonaut David, yes that’s him in his Velo.

Enjoy and get to The Vineyard with your bicycle even for a long weekend, you’ll be completely recharged in about one hour!

If you need some info about MV –  The Ride To Martha’s

Activists work toward self-sustaining Martha’s Vineyard

By Whit Griswold

September 28, 2011

More than 30 people turned out for an alternative transportation parade through Vineyard Haven on Saturday, September 24, followed by an open forum at Grace Church on how best to address climate change. Known as Moving Planet, Moving Island, the event was organized by a newly formed group called the Island Climate Action Network (ICAN) in coordination with the global effort of Bill McKibben’s organization, 350.org. Rallies big and small were held in more than 2,000 communities in 175 countries around the world on Saturday.

read full article…

Getting involved in shaping their future early in life are, from left, Emmett Taylor, Madison Pittman, and Ada Coffey.

MV Family Campground 2010

Caught this Vita Coco Media Truck in midtown….I really liked the wrap job.

Very Nice Wrap

I think these Media Cycles stand up very nicely to the truck wrap and they’re much more Urban Friendly!

A little creativity can go a long way

Sunday night Kickstart…

5th Avenue, all clear for a change!

Found myself on the east side of Manhattan, not quite as bike friendly as the west especially with the UN in session!

Why are there bikes in the Ferrari Showroom?

Is Ferrari having trouble selling cars?

Traffic on Church Street is off the meter!

Even downtown is tight

Don’t even think of driving between East 34th and 59th Streets-You’ll be very sorry!

Police bikes line South Street

Protest on Wall Street

NO BULL!

Ugliest cargo I've ever seen

Nice looking hotel on East 61st street

Nice Porch

What a surprise, kinda out of place

Very exciting city, still love and hate it!

Great use of zip ties!

I remember my first ride down the Hudson River Bikeway post 9/11. At the time I lived in Palisades, NY. I rode to work everyday over the George Washington Bridge. The Towers always dominated the NYC skyline by a long way. After 9/11 I would stop halfway, mid span and stare at the empty space in complete disbelief.

I rode down the bikeway yesterday from West 59th Street except this time 10 years after there’s the new Freedom Tower – its amazing to see it rise so fast after an 8 year wait getting started. 

I felt the same surreal feeling creeping through my body that I had the first time I dared ride down the Hudson River Bikeway to see that the Towers were really gone.

Just getting started

Along the way

Despite the frequent downpours. Nothing seems to stop tourists from walking the Brooklyn Bridge!

Heavy fog-Ready to pour!

Here they come

Runner

What's this?

Usually the bridge is jammed with vendors selling water, tee shirts and hawking Bikes to Rent, not today!