Talk:Xtracycle

Help Needed
Hello, I'm the creator of this page, Nicolas Nelson. I believe the Xtracycle deserves a wikipedia article, and hope to develop this article as if the company itself had gone out of business: I'm hoping this mental perspective will help the article sound more like an article and less like an advertisement, to satisfy Wikipedia's concerns on that count. I welcome ANY help and feedback in that vein.

The purpose of this article is to reveal historical and technical information not found elsewhere about the Xtracycle. To do this I will solicit the input of Xtracycle engineers and folks who participate on the Xtracycle community forums.

Another purpose of this article is to begin describing the "bicycle lifestyle"-- perhaps this part ought to have its own article page? It is a lot bigger than just Xtracycle. In many ways, the Xtracycle's success is riding a wave of interest that existed already. But the Xtracycle has also been a catalyst for many people, like myself, to go from uninterested to enthusiastic about adopting a bicycle lifestyle: I'd like to explore that aspect too. It's difficult to do that and not sound like I'm advertising the product. Again, feedback (especially negative) is welcome.

Full disclosure: I am a happy owner of a Free Radical and am backordered for a Stokemonkey from CleverChimp.com. I participate fairly regularly on the Xtracycle community forums under the name "parepidemos". I am not an employee of Xtracycle LLC and have never personally met either Ross Evans or Kipchoge Spencer. I have no connection with the Ginger Ninjas though I do like a few of their songs.

...uh oh, page tagged again. I clicked on the watchbox's link "wikify", and am sad to admit I'll need help. This article must not be "wikispam." Help me out, folks...

Heading off Speedy Deletion
I noticed this article was tagged for speedy deletion today. Because I think this subject matter has encyclopedic value (it turns out this type of bike does actually have enthusiasts), I have reorganized and rewritten the article. User:Nicolas Nelson, however, shouldn't have posted the original version without first learning what a Wikipedia article is supposed to look like. This article still needs work, but hopefully now it's off to a better start. =Axlq 04:30, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Type of bike or company
I believe this article should be about the company, Xtracycle Inc., because there already is an article about the type of bike: longtail. There is nothing inherently wrong or spammy about an article about a company. If not, the two articles should be merged since there are about the same thing, a type of long-wheelbase bicycle. -AndrewDressel (talk) 00:38, 30 December 2009 (UTC)


 * According to the Xtracycle Inc website glossary:
 * Xtracycle
 * Longtail sport utility cargo bicycle company founded by Ross Evans. Original inventors of the convertible cargo bicycle attachment, FreeRadical.
 * and
 * Adopted name of a longtail cargo bike after a successful donor bike conversion.
 * This suggests to me that this page should be about at least both, the combany and the bike, though it can defer to the Longtail (bicycle) article for many of the details about the bike. -AndrewDressel (talk) 00:27, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Done. -AndrewDressel (talk) 12:49, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

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