Comments on: If Taga is the answer, what was the question? http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:46:08 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: D. Stewart http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-517 D. Stewart Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:46:08 +0000 http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280#comment-517 Oh, and one other thing the Taga has over the other products mentioned in the comments. The Taga allows you to leave your kid in place while you readjust it into a bike or pram and for parents like me whose toddler turns into a feral cat once she is taken out of her pram, baby carrier or the bike seat we have when we try to put her back in something, the Taga IS the answer! Unfortunately, the stroller portion is just so bulky. I can't justify the inconvenience and dirty looks it would generate in Japan. Oh, and one other thing the Taga has over the other products mentioned in the comments. The Taga allows you to leave your kid in place while you readjust it into a bike or pram and for parents like me whose toddler turns into a feral cat once she is taken out of her pram, baby carrier or the bike seat we have when we try to put her back in something, the Taga IS the answer!

Unfortunately, the stroller portion is just so bulky. I can’t justify the inconvenience and dirty looks it would generate in Japan.

]]> By: D. Stewart http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-516 D. Stewart Tue, 07 Sep 2010 05:38:05 +0000 http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280#comment-516 About the trains. . .Taga does seem like "the answer." I live in Tokyo and the way to go is by trains. Bikes are not allowed. I am surprised that the writer of this article is so ignorant of this. HOWEVER, Tokyo's trains are crazy busy and NARROW. Often there are insanely long lines for elevators or no elevators at all! Grocery stores are also super narrow and crowded as are many shopping centers. I think the Taga in pram form would COMPLETELY negate any benefits you gained by biking to your destination as opposed to walking or taking the bus, once you are forced to wrestle it through a narrow, crowded city. Furthermore you would really stick out like a foolish gaijin as everyone had to dodge out of the way of your bulky monstrosity of a pram. Forget about getting anywhere in a hurry with this thing! About the trains. . .Taga does seem like “the answer.”

I live in Tokyo and the way to go is by trains. Bikes are not allowed. I am surprised that the writer of this article is so ignorant of this.

HOWEVER, Tokyo’s trains are crazy busy and NARROW. Often there are insanely long lines for elevators or no elevators at all! Grocery stores are also super narrow and crowded as are many shopping centers.
I think the Taga in pram form would COMPLETELY negate any benefits you gained by biking to your destination as opposed to walking or taking the bus, once you are forced to wrestle it through a narrow, crowded city.

Furthermore you would really stick out like a foolish gaijin as everyone had to dodge out of the way of your bulky monstrosity of a pram. Forget about getting anywhere in a hurry with this thing!

]]> By: Sara http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-515 Sara Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:31:47 +0000 http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280#comment-515 I found something like TAGA on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290463232450&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT seems less expensive. I found something like TAGA on ebay http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=290463232450&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT seems less expensive.

]]> By: Taga – my second go : bakfiets.co.uk http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-461 Taga – my second go : bakfiets.co.uk Tue, 29 Jun 2010 21:11:45 +0000 http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280#comment-461 [...] my second go on a Taga the other week. Long-term readers will recall that I was skeptical before I rode it and continued to be so when I rode it last year. My main complaint was the steering system, which [...] [...] my second go on a Taga the other week. Long-term readers will recall that I was skeptical before I rode it and continued to be so when I rode it last year. My main complaint was the steering system, which [...]

]]> By: Erik Sandblom http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280&cpage=1#comment-316 Erik Sandblom Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:17:43 +0000 http://measured-response.com/bakfiets/?p=280#comment-316 DrMekon, I see your points, but if it gets people cycling it's a good thing right? If it gets the press to write about cycling, that's good too right? Anyway I don't think Velovision is really endorsing the bike: "it's easy to ride within the trike's limits if you want". And they do mention a simple stroller as an alternative in the printed issue 34. Velovision is often very diplomatic in their criticisms. The magazine would be a zestier read if they were bolder. On the other hand, most of the bikes reviewed probably have their fans, and readers are often unlikely to even be aware of the bikes available if Velovision didn't write about them. So on balance, I think Velovision is doing the right thing when being diplomatic in their criticisms. After all they are there for all to see. DrMekon, I see your points, but if it gets people cycling it’s a good thing right? If it gets the press to write about cycling, that’s good too right?

Anyway I don’t think Velovision is really endorsing the bike: “it’s easy to ride within the trike’s limits if you want”. And they do mention a simple stroller as an alternative in the printed issue 34.

Velovision is often very diplomatic in their criticisms. The magazine would be a zestier read if they were bolder. On the other hand, most of the bikes reviewed probably have their fans, and readers are often unlikely to even be aware of the bikes available if Velovision didn’t write about them.

So on balance, I think Velovision is doing the right thing when being diplomatic in their criticisms. After all they are there for all to see.

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