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Bike, scooter sales pick up speed

May 9th, 2011 No comments

From USA Today: As gas prices surge beyond $4 a gallon, more Americans are cycling as a way to stay fit, save money, or both. Sales of new bikes rose 9% in the first quarter of this year, compared with the same period in 2010, and sales of road bikes — commonly used in commuting [...]

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Trikes Featured on NBC Nightly News

October 12th, 2010 No comments

Metro Grand Rapids Shows Its Greenways

May 20th, 2010 No comments

Via RapidGrowthMedia.com Since launching in 2000, the West Michigan Trails & Greenways Coalition has overseen roughly $27 million in trail investment for the 585 miles of trail in its network. Last month it announced nearly $3 million between two projects on the Fred Meijer Heartland Trail that runs from Lowell to Belding. Several other Fred [...]

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Art Prize

September 21st, 2009 No comments

ArtPrize is a radically open competition from September 23 – October 10, 2009 in Grand Rapids Michigan, home of the TerraTrike clubhouse. It is open to any artist in the world who can find space. Open to anybody in Grand Rapids, Michigan who wants to create a venue. Open to a vote from anyone who [...]

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What Would Get Americans Biking (or Triking) to Work?

September 4th, 2009 No comments

From Slate.com When we talk about transportation, we tend to talk about things in motion. What is often left unremarked upon, in conversations about crowded highways, is something without which those crowds would not exist: parking. That humble 9-by-18-foot space (the standard size of a spot) is where traffic begins and ends. It is the [...]

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Dan Price – The Hobo Artist

August 21st, 2009 1 comment

This is Dan Price. He’s a pretty unique guy. He rode one of our trikes from Joseph Oregon down the coast to San Diego, than across the United States all the way to Key West Florida. Over 4700 miles and still the longest trek on a trike that we know of. Dan is a writer [...]