We recently had an e-mail exchange with a person who was trying to bring a Rhoades Car into New Brunswick and had it refused for import by Canada Customs at the border. On the...
By RuthWe were blessed with sparkling blue skies, moderately warm temperatures and not a breath of wind. Here in Ottawa, various parkways and roads are closed to motor traffic...
Rhoades Car Owner Gordon Koppang sent us the story of switching the "standard" plastic Rhoades Car seat on his 4W1P single seater for something better. We thought we would share...
This has been a busy week for us, with lots of wet weather. We did get out for a ride on the quadracycle today, when it finally stopped raining. The trip was a local one to...
We were away from home this past week and so didn't get any quadracycling in at all. But we did hear from Gordon Koppang of Lethbridge Alberta and he has been...
I heard from Gordon Koppang of Lethbridge again today via e-mail. He said that his 4W1P is not a 36 speed as it was advertised. He mentioned that his quadracycle has a Sun Race...
Today is Saturday and so we both decided to go for a short ride out to the Ottawa International Airport. This is only a couple of miles away, but it makes a nice early morning...
Today is a holiday Monday here in Ottawa. Last night it rained most of the night, but by dawn the rain had passed and the streets had started to dry off. By mid morning the...
I have written quite a bit about our longer trips, the 30 km plus jaunts into town or into the rural areas exploring the countryside. Those are easy to write about. We usually...
Anyone who has done some serious internet research on buying a quadracycle will have come across the Lightfoot Cycles article “Comparing the Lightfoot to other four-wheel...
Today was Sunday and the sun was shining. That meant that not only was it an Alcatel-Lucent Biking Sunday but that there were lots of people out on the closed-to-cars road....
As mentioned in our 23 July 2007 diary entry, we have decided to carry out a modification to our Rhoades Car 4W2PCP quadracycle. We don't take modifications lightly. Mostly we...
We decided to make a trip to one of our winter cross-country skiing haunts. The cycle to Pine Grove only took us 25 minutes and was really pleasant. The morning was crisp and...
Our quadracycle has proved really invaluable over the last ten days. Our truck broke down when we were heading out to do some camping on July the 9th. We had it towed, packed...
Yes, we got out on the Colonel By Drive today for a real Alcatel-Lucent Biking Sunday and cycled 30.0 km. This time it didn't rain (unlike last weekend) and the route was open...
Today we decided to just do a local trip, but we still covered 21.2 km along the way. When you travel side-by-side with someone that you like it is easy to cover lots of ground...
Slowly we have been pushing back the “quadracycle boundaries” to find out just what the combination of the Rhoades Car 4W2PCP with us pedalling, is capable...
We have now had our Rhoades Car 4W2PCP since February 8th, 2007 which is five months. In that time we have put a lot of miles on our cycle. I figure that this is long enough to...
Today is Canada Day – the country’s 140th birthday. So, being a Sunday, we thought we would take the Rhoades Car out and cycle the Colonel By Drive. We figured that there...
Today we decided to head out and get some exercise while exploring an interesting roadway. On our Riverside South trip we had passed what our map showed as “High Road”,...
By Ruth Merkis-Hunt Ottawa is a growing city with new subdivisions popping up here and there. The city itself is girdled with a large greenbelt and so that means that...
Today was an amazing day! The weather has been perfect this weekend – clear and sunny. Ruth and I decided to head out and bike into town on the Colonel By Drive, which is...
Since the CBC documentary in which the Ottawa Police received some advice from MTO that quadracycles are allowed on the roads in Ontario, but have to have a “Slow-Moving...
For anyone who didn't see the CBC clip that was aired on the CBC Ottawa evening news on May 2nd 2007 CBC have been gracious enough to post the item on their website.You can...
Today was the first day of the Alcatel Bike Sundays this year. So we had to go and quadracycle the Colonel By Drive. We got going pretty early, around 0830 hrs...
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