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Xtracycle Cost

To the posters concerned about the cost of an xtracycle -- please check out their website (www.xtracycle.com). You do not have to spend $1,800 on an xtracycle bike, you can get the free radical attachment for $450 and put it on any old bicycle that you have in your garage. While $450 is not inexpensive, I have definitely saved that much in gas over the six months that I have owned one. Owning an xtracycle makes it incredibly easy to live without a car.

To the posters who have suggested that one start with a trailer, I say no. I started with a trailer and eventually ended up buying an xtracycle. Now I have both (and use both) but if I'd bought the xtracycle first, that might have been all that I needed. The xtracycle offers so much more than a trailer, in terms of convenience, in terms of safety, in terms of smoothness and (lack of) effort, and even in terms of carrying capacity. As the poster above mentioned, very few trailers can comfortable carry an adult passenger -- the xtracycle does it with ease.

I truly believe that the xtracycle is the best possible investment one can make for bicycle commuting. Within a few days, you will realize that they are well worth their price and that it is hard to imagine life before xtracycle. And I am not usually particularly impressed with 'gear', I just think that the xtracycle has a unique capacity for improving life and transportation options. On Umbra on cargo bikes posted 1 year, 7 months ago 29 Responses