What’s the difference between a FreeRadical, a sport utility bicycle and Xtracycle?
The FreeRadical® is a retrofit attachment that adds chic cargo-carrying capability to a regular bike, turning it into a sport-utility bicycle, or S.U.B. We like to describe the S.U.B. concept as a co-evolution of truck and bike that completely re-imagines how much you can do how fast and how fun on two wheels. XTRACYCLE® is the name of the company that invented, manufactures, markets, and licenses the original FreeRadical and created the S.U.B. category. Plenty of people refer to their whole S.U.B. as an “Xtracycle;” the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office says that’s bad, but we haven’t been able to figure out why. »»back to top What do you mean, “invented the category?” It’s true, there are quite a few other ways to use a bike to carry things, but ours stands out in a few critical ways. And these increase its potential to dramatically change the bicycle market while altering human-powered transport on a massive scale. If carrying things were a person’s only criterion, a load hauling tri
