Friday, 29 June 2012

Utilitaires - thinking about living with less or no car use

Utilitaires.
Bet you've never heard of them.

Mostly in the USA, amongst (from what I can make out) mostly women, "utilitaires" have a modest but dedicated following.
Think of them as "utility cycling".
You get a list of jobs, and try and do them using a bike.
Then you mark them off on the list, with details, when you have done them.
Think of a Utilitaire as an idea to try to encourage folks to find out what they can achieve on a bike, rather than just a ticklist of pointless exercises :-)
A typical Utilitaire list looks

Multi-modal transport in Oxford

Today, my wife and I went multi-modal in Oxford, city of dreaming spires.

Kona's new utility bike - the MinUte

Kona have released a new utility bike.

You may already be familiar with the Kona Ute (look here if you are not), and now there is another utility bike from Kona, too!