Madi Carlson
@familyride.bsky.social
Cargo bikes, kids on bikes, everyone on bikes. Author URBAN CYCLING: How to Get to Work, Save Money, and Use Your Bike for City Living (Mountaineers Books). she/her
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Portland: come celebrate the new year with me at the annual @thestreettrust.org New Year’s Day Ride! It’s my 5th year leading, but the 70th-ish overall 🤩
We’ve got an awesome route this year, great playlist, tasty snacks & warm drinks, and oodles of prizes at the end
thestreettrust.org/NYD
We’ve got an awesome route this year, great playlist, tasty snacks & warm drinks, and oodles of prizes at the end
thestreettrust.org/NYD
December 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Portland: come celebrate the new year with me at the annual @thestreettrust.org New Year’s Day Ride! It’s my 5th year leading, but the 70th-ish overall 🤩
We’ve got an awesome route this year, great playlist, tasty snacks & warm drinks, and oodles of prizes at the end
thestreettrust.org/NYD
We’ve got an awesome route this year, great playlist, tasty snacks & warm drinks, and oodles of prizes at the end
thestreettrust.org/NYD
New passageway at Portland Art Museum!
My opa was a preeminent Rembrandt art historian—in Den Haag & Groningen—but we all spent a lot of time in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—it has a BIG bikeway, but this little guy has a similar vibe.
Ride it w/
@thestreettrust.org on Jan 1: thestreettrust.org/NYDR
My opa was a preeminent Rembrandt art historian—in Den Haag & Groningen—but we all spent a lot of time in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—it has a BIG bikeway, but this little guy has a similar vibe.
Ride it w/
@thestreettrust.org on Jan 1: thestreettrust.org/NYDR
December 7, 2025 at 3:20 AM
New passageway at Portland Art Museum!
My opa was a preeminent Rembrandt art historian—in Den Haag & Groningen—but we all spent a lot of time in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—it has a BIG bikeway, but this little guy has a similar vibe.
Ride it w/
@thestreettrust.org on Jan 1: thestreettrust.org/NYDR
My opa was a preeminent Rembrandt art historian—in Den Haag & Groningen—but we all spent a lot of time in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam—it has a BIG bikeway, but this little guy has a similar vibe.
Ride it w/
@thestreettrust.org on Jan 1: thestreettrust.org/NYDR
Celebrated my Surly Big Dummy’s 14th birthday today 🎉
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December 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Celebrated my Surly Big Dummy’s 14th birthday today 🎉
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Please give if you can - between Trump and Drazan, the GOP is doing everything they can to dismantle transportation funding for anything but highways in Oregon.
The Street Trust REALLY needs your support in this end of year giving campaign.
The Street Trust REALLY needs your support in this end of year giving campaign.
🌱 BIG GIVE DAY FOR GREEN THUMBS!
Donate $10 or more today to The Street Trust for a chance to win a $500 gift card to Portland Nursery! Throw your (sun) hat in the ring at www.TheStreetTrust.org/GG!
Your gifts makes the fight for more sustainable, resilient, and low carbon transportation possible.
Donate $10 or more today to The Street Trust for a chance to win a $500 gift card to Portland Nursery! Throw your (sun) hat in the ring at www.TheStreetTrust.org/GG!
Your gifts makes the fight for more sustainable, resilient, and low carbon transportation possible.
November 11, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Please give if you can - between Trump and Drazan, the GOP is doing everything they can to dismantle transportation funding for anything but highways in Oregon.
The Street Trust REALLY needs your support in this end of year giving campaign.
The Street Trust REALLY needs your support in this end of year giving campaign.
Here to admit that it’s easier to tote the Shift bike racks with my big trailer vs my Big Dummy.
Hope to see you all (and your bike locked up to one of these racks) at @thestreettrust.org Alice Awards tmw night 🎉
I started with racks on both sides of the bike, but that only lasted a few blocks 😬
Hope to see you all (and your bike locked up to one of these racks) at @thestreettrust.org Alice Awards tmw night 🎉
I started with racks on both sides of the bike, but that only lasted a few blocks 😬
October 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Here to admit that it’s easier to tote the Shift bike racks with my big trailer vs my Big Dummy.
Hope to see you all (and your bike locked up to one of these racks) at @thestreettrust.org Alice Awards tmw night 🎉
I started with racks on both sides of the bike, but that only lasted a few blocks 😬
Hope to see you all (and your bike locked up to one of these racks) at @thestreettrust.org Alice Awards tmw night 🎉
I started with racks on both sides of the bike, but that only lasted a few blocks 😬
Chainring grease tattoos on the inside of your right leg are cool, but typical. Loading up to bag-and-drag™️ gave me these beauts. ⛓️🖼️
August 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Chainring grease tattoos on the inside of your right leg are cool, but typical. Loading up to bag-and-drag™️ gave me these beauts. ⛓️🖼️
“Calzone: A pizza turnover.” -Mariolino’s, Vernonia, OR
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Calzone: The _best_ rear rack to-go food for a trailside flat fix. -me
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Calzone: The _best_ rear rack to-go food for a trailside flat fix. -me
August 3, 2025 at 2:37 AM
“Calzone: A pizza turnover.” -Mariolino’s, Vernonia, OR
🍕🙃
Calzone: The _best_ rear rack to-go food for a trailside flat fix. -me
🍕🙃
Calzone: The _best_ rear rack to-go food for a trailside flat fix. -me
Mere minutes into our visit to Los Angeles: bikes!
Detrained the Amtrak Coast Starlight and grabbed the Blue Line only to have 20 BMX bikes board at the next stop 😍
Appreciate the unintentional warm welcome, 41 Thursday!
Detrained the Amtrak Coast Starlight and grabbed the Blue Line only to have 20 BMX bikes board at the next stop 😍
Appreciate the unintentional warm welcome, 41 Thursday!
July 18, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Mere minutes into our visit to Los Angeles: bikes!
Detrained the Amtrak Coast Starlight and grabbed the Blue Line only to have 20 BMX bikes board at the next stop 😍
Appreciate the unintentional warm welcome, 41 Thursday!
Detrained the Amtrak Coast Starlight and grabbed the Blue Line only to have 20 BMX bikes board at the next stop 😍
Appreciate the unintentional warm welcome, 41 Thursday!
A four-bike day merits documentation:
1. Trailer bike for a work errand (hot bike-on-bike action)
2. Single speed to the gym (and post-gym burritos)
3. Bullitt bakfiets to fetch a sick kid
4. My bb og mamabike for groceries
1. Trailer bike for a work errand (hot bike-on-bike action)
2. Single speed to the gym (and post-gym burritos)
3. Bullitt bakfiets to fetch a sick kid
4. My bb og mamabike for groceries
May 28, 2025 at 4:53 AM
A four-bike day merits documentation:
1. Trailer bike for a work errand (hot bike-on-bike action)
2. Single speed to the gym (and post-gym burritos)
3. Bullitt bakfiets to fetch a sick kid
4. My bb og mamabike for groceries
1. Trailer bike for a work errand (hot bike-on-bike action)
2. Single speed to the gym (and post-gym burritos)
3. Bullitt bakfiets to fetch a sick kid
4. My bb og mamabike for groceries
I’m phoning it in for #30daysofbiking yet again. It was another day I didn’t get out all day so I took a nighttime spin around the neighborhood (third day doing this). I’m going to run out of well-lit photo spots at the neighborhood market.
April 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I’m phoning it in for #30daysofbiking yet again. It was another day I didn’t get out all day so I took a nighttime spin around the neighborhood (third day doing this). I’m going to run out of well-lit photo spots at the neighborhood market.
Oh hey, happy #30daysofbiking! I’m already behind—I forgot to Strava 1.2 miles this morning to the orthodontist and back (there with a kid, back without since the bus was better for the trek to school) so manual math it is! Just like the old days.
And my pink portrait wall is now white, sigh.
And my pink portrait wall is now white, sigh.
April 1, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Oh hey, happy #30daysofbiking! I’m already behind—I forgot to Strava 1.2 miles this morning to the orthodontist and back (there with a kid, back without since the bus was better for the trek to school) so manual math it is! Just like the old days.
And my pink portrait wall is now white, sigh.
And my pink portrait wall is now white, sigh.
Brompton fits perfectly in a little CVS shopping cart 💅
March 25, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Brompton fits perfectly in a little CVS shopping cart 💅
Raced my brother to Venice Beach and back and won!
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This is the Santa Monica workout: rent heavy clunky beach cruiser, add heavy clunky tag-along, add spirited nephew, don’t raise or tighten loose saddle, and goooooooooo!
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This is the Santa Monica workout: rent heavy clunky beach cruiser, add heavy clunky tag-along, add spirited nephew, don’t raise or tighten loose saddle, and goooooooooo!
March 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Raced my brother to Venice Beach and back and won!
💪
This is the Santa Monica workout: rent heavy clunky beach cruiser, add heavy clunky tag-along, add spirited nephew, don’t raise or tighten loose saddle, and goooooooooo!
💪
This is the Santa Monica workout: rent heavy clunky beach cruiser, add heavy clunky tag-along, add spirited nephew, don’t raise or tighten loose saddle, and goooooooooo!
Brompton on the move! Bus -> Amtrak -> light rail -> plane -> bus -> 🌴 A little more convoluted than necessary with a kid drop-off in Seattle, but every leg was an adventure despite very few pedal strokes so far, and now it’s family time!
March 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Brompton on the move! Bus -> Amtrak -> light rail -> plane -> bus -> 🌴 A little more convoluted than necessary with a kid drop-off in Seattle, but every leg was an adventure despite very few pedal strokes so far, and now it’s family time!
Someday (but not today!) I’ll let my Romanceür make friends w/o butting in” Eh. My beloved Straggler was stolen & this is the 3rd bike I’ve tried to replace it with. Doesn’t carry as much. But hey, my dog died (don’t worry: she was old and had a good run!) so now I can use the front basket for gear”
March 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Someday (but not today!) I’ll let my Romanceür make friends w/o butting in” Eh. My beloved Straggler was stolen & this is the 3rd bike I’ve tried to replace it with. Doesn’t carry as much. But hey, my dog died (don’t worry: she was old and had a good run!) so now I can use the front basket for gear”
Car-free mom taxi kiddo pickup 🚲🚲. It’s hard to tell via phone pic, but there are idling parent cars as far as the eye can see out on the street. But there’s also one other student bike at the racks 😊
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Car-free mom taxi kiddo pickup 🚲🚲. It’s hard to tell via phone pic, but there are idling parent cars as far as the eye can see out on the street. But there’s also one other student bike at the racks 😊
30 seconds after I took this snap my bike fell off the hook 😬
It hung on fine for its other two MAX rides & its FX (bendy bus with interior racks) ride so I’m not sure what happened. The strap is blocking the view of the hook, but I don’t think I mis-hung it. Feel free to diagnose in the comments.
It hung on fine for its other two MAX rides & its FX (bendy bus with interior racks) ride so I’m not sure what happened. The strap is blocking the view of the hook, but I don’t think I mis-hung it. Feel free to diagnose in the comments.
February 26, 2025 at 3:24 AM
30 seconds after I took this snap my bike fell off the hook 😬
It hung on fine for its other two MAX rides & its FX (bendy bus with interior racks) ride so I’m not sure what happened. The strap is blocking the view of the hook, but I don’t think I mis-hung it. Feel free to diagnose in the comments.
It hung on fine for its other two MAX rides & its FX (bendy bus with interior racks) ride so I’m not sure what happened. The strap is blocking the view of the hook, but I don’t think I mis-hung it. Feel free to diagnose in the comments.
Every bike is a grocery bike…though this particular grocery bike means I’ve got tortillas tucked inside my sweatshirt and produce riding in my rain jacket hood.
February 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Every bike is a grocery bike…though this particular grocery bike means I’ve got tortillas tucked inside my sweatshirt and produce riding in my rain jacket hood.
TIL when dudes shout “Nice rig!” and “I like that set-up!” you know they’re talking about the cargo bike, but when they yell “Nice bike!” there’s a chance they’re referencing one of the lil bikes.
4th pic is my modified left turn in the ONEMART parking lot to prevent my trailing wheels from tangling
4th pic is my modified left turn in the ONEMART parking lot to prevent my trailing wheels from tangling
February 21, 2025 at 2:52 AM
TIL when dudes shout “Nice rig!” and “I like that set-up!” you know they’re talking about the cargo bike, but when they yell “Nice bike!” there’s a chance they’re referencing one of the lil bikes.
4th pic is my modified left turn in the ONEMART parking lot to prevent my trailing wheels from tangling
4th pic is my modified left turn in the ONEMART parking lot to prevent my trailing wheels from tangling
🖐️ Any other IKEA bag fans out there? So affordable and good-enough for keeping precious cargo dry. In the bags the way to work: portable speaker, projector, laptop; and on the way home: enormous pizza.
#FRAKTA #STORSTOMMA
#FRAKTA #STORSTOMMA
February 20, 2025 at 2:06 AM
🖐️ Any other IKEA bag fans out there? So affordable and good-enough for keeping precious cargo dry. In the bags the way to work: portable speaker, projector, laptop; and on the way home: enormous pizza.
#FRAKTA #STORSTOMMA
#FRAKTA #STORSTOMMA
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Winter Light Festival: WeBike Ride to LED Drag Show for WTFNB+ and Allies
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February 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Winter Light Festival: WeBike Ride to LED Drag Show for WTFNB+ and Allies
@thestreettrust.org
@familyride.bsky.social
@thestreettrust.org
@familyride.bsky.social
First time using a pannier on this bike! (Which I’m borrowing from my kiddo and originally got from @mujozen.bsky.social ). My quiet roads are slushy and slippery so I mostly took the arterials I’d otherwise avoid.
February 15, 2025 at 12:29 AM
First time using a pannier on this bike! (Which I’m borrowing from my kiddo and originally got from @mujozen.bsky.social ). My quiet roads are slushy and slippery so I mostly took the arterials I’d otherwise avoid.
I biked Pixie’s 🐶🌈 pet ramp to work to donate it to Secondhand Pet Supply and they can sell it to a new old little pup.
This is only the second time I’ve daisy-chained my two Xtracycle Utility Belt extender cargo straps to hold something so big.
This is only the second time I’ve daisy-chained my two Xtracycle Utility Belt extender cargo straps to hold something so big.
February 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I biked Pixie’s 🐶🌈 pet ramp to work to donate it to Secondhand Pet Supply and they can sell it to a new old little pup.
This is only the second time I’ve daisy-chained my two Xtracycle Utility Belt extender cargo straps to hold something so big.
This is only the second time I’ve daisy-chained my two Xtracycle Utility Belt extender cargo straps to hold something so big.
This is me and one of my absolute favorite people, Marley Blonsky! She cofounded a nonprofit called All Bodies on Bikes and starred in a film of that same name. I’m so excited that Portland is launching a local ABOB chapter!!!
February 6, 2025 at 1:56 AM
This is me and one of my absolute favorite people, Marley Blonsky! She cofounded a nonprofit called All Bodies on Bikes and starred in a film of that same name. I’m so excited that Portland is launching a local ABOB chapter!!!