A chance to get a bike like mine for FREE!!!

Have I mentioned how much I LOVE my new bike??


Well I do, and did I mention that Will, the owner, from boxcycles took the time to email me and give me pointers on those turns I was having trouble with?? He actually read my blog and sent me a message. Riding and turning are so easy now, I just LOVE it!!


OK so now for the main reason for my post. I keep up on boxcycles blog and just read they will be giving away 1 FREE bike to a lucky fan, yep FREE. All you have to do is become a fan of thier facebook page and you are entered. Here are the details: http://www.boxcycles.com/blog/2010/09/02/1000-fan-challenge/


I really really really LOVE my boxcycle, good luck!!

Thanks for peaking in on us. :)

Around Town in style

So now that I have had my new bike a few weeks. I LOVE it even more today we took a ride to our Library for story time, it is only 2.5 miles away from the house so a little 5 mile ride. :) I decided to add the sides on that go with the cover.

Here is a little look inside at the seat set up.

With 5 kids I need to pack some stuff to bring with. Under each seat there is storage space, and under the front seat I have 6 diapers, wipes, a changing pad, hand sanitizer and a backup outfit for each kids, just in case. Under the back bench, I have the cover for the box area, a tire pump, 6 water bottles and a snack for the way home. :)

So here we are off to the Library, yes I was a bad Mom no helmets this time, but the bike is so easy to ride and doesn't tip, and we go really slow and are on a path, and it sounded good in my head to avoid that extra work. I am still on the fence on that one and we do helmets most of the time.

Look at the little kids in the Library enjoying the computers in the kids area. :)

Alexis and Olivia enjoyed story time and then made an art project!!

Oh what fun they had!!

We checked out 5 books and left. We made it back home, everyone was ready to get out and go inside for lunch!! :)

Thanks for peeking in on us. :)

The first ride on the new Bike

So I got my brand new bike yesterday, and since Alexis wanted Daddy to go with her to soccer, I decided on a test ride with the kids. Keep in mind that I have not been on any kind of bike in almost 3 years.


The kids were pretty excited to get into Moms new bike. And to go off on a bike ride. I was just going to ride a quarter of a mile up our dirt road to the stop sign and back. But once we got to the stop sign Olivia said "lets keep going!!" They were all having fun, and I was surprised at the ease of the bike on the dirt road.


So we road on and got onto the paved path about a third of a mile from our house. WOW the paved path was even easier. I thought am I really riding with an extra 100 plus pounds of kids?? Not to mention the extra 30 I could stand to lose. Not only was riding it very easy, but there was another bonus, I can see the kids and I carried on a conversation with Olivia, my almost 4 year old, on the way.

We turned a few heads in the cars that passed us. And then we crossed paths with another biker and the kids waved and said "hi" to the other biker too. He smiled at us.

When I talked to the owner of boxcycles, Will, he told me that it takes about a half a day of riding around to get used to it. And he also shared that he road around New York City on his boxcycle for 7 hours to deliver a boxcycle to someone. So he really means a half day, 12 hours. So here are some things I found a little hard turning made me nervous, it takes very wide turns and I needed to go slow. I decided to get off the bike and turn it, lucky for me the path is straight. Also I felt a little uneasy when the road was slanted.

Tonight I road about 2.5 miles total, so I figure to get Wills "half day" of experience it will take me about 2 weeks. So after I have broken in myself and the bike, I will give another update.

Thanks for peaking in on us!! :)

A New Bike

A few months ago, I found myself searching for a bike trailer for 3 kids. After hours of searching and asking my moms of multiples groups there was no such thing as a triplet bike trailer. So I continued searching, I do know of 2 moms that have creative husbands that made them bikes to fit their triplets and more on. But we have no skills with welding here so that did not work out.

So I continued on with search engines looking for creative ways to bike with kids, some had tagalongs with a bike trailer attached, that might work if I only had Alexis and twins. And then I saw a bike with a box in the front, could this be my answer???

Well I found the bikes were called Bakfiets, and they were made in Denmark. I searched and for some reason could not find anywhere that sold these in the US. I set the idea on hold and then summer came, and I wanted to get out riding a bike, some exercise. So again I started looking for the Bakfiets or Cargo Bikes, and it just so happened that I accidentally found a company called boxcycles, these were bikes made in Denmark, making their initial debut in the United States this summer.

On June 6th I emailed the owner Will, who promptly got back to me and the bikes were sold out, only 100 came in on the first shipment in July, but they would have more in the Fall coming and were hoping for a Minnesota retailer. He said they could definitely customize it for 4 kids.

Well on July 27th, they found they had 1 bike left from that initial shipment and a bikeshop willing to sell the bike if they had a buyer and was I still interested. Long story short I now have an amazing bike Thanks to Will at Boxcycles and Rob at Varsity Bikes in Minneapolis. Here is a picture of my new ride!!





Check back for my next update on how the initial ride went.

Thanks for peaking in on us.