Bicycles are the ultimate form of transportation freedom. They’re easy to repair, parts are cheap, and they will travel almost anywhere for free, as long as the rider has enough calories. Their only real downside is dealing with car-dependent societies, but once a year there’s a place in the American desert that eschews all of this and [Attoparsec] decided to take this custom cargo bike modified into an RV out to Burning Man, a place and time that would be perfect for a build like this.
The build started out as a cargo bike, but not many of them have cargo areas long enough to support a sleeping human. To increase this storage capacity, the bed was extended towards the rear. Without moving the axle further back, though, this created a problem with tail-heaviness so two trailer jacks with wheels were added to the back to keep it from occasionally tipping up too far. The sleeping enclosure was built with rigid foam insulation and taped together, in a modified style common to the Burning Man event which helps keep out sun and playa dust. The bicycle recived one last upgrade to the chain to support the extra weight, and a solar-powered refrigerator, and then it was off to the desert.
The bike RV worked well in the end, and even handled a rain storm without the roof leaking. There were some problems with the customized drive train which were solved in the short term by pounding on one of the wheels occasionally with a hammer. [Attoparsec] left the event early for other reasons, though, and might not be back for a while. But vehicles like these are gaining in popularity, presuming there are safe places to ride them. [Paul Elkins] is often making ones like this gas-powered bicycle and trailer camper.
Lime riders in Seattle have already outpaced last year’s entire ridership numbers, logging more than 10.5 million trips into October — surpassing the city’s 2025 full-year total more than two months ahead of schedule.
Powered by a massive surge during the summer’s FIFA World Cup matches in Seattle and a record-breaking Seahawks Super Bowl parade, the milestone highlights how deeply e-bikes and scooters have embedded themselves into Seattle’s daily commute and transit network.
The summer soccer tournament alone accounted for more than 1.7 million trips, headlined by an all-time single-day high of 83,000 rides on June 19 for the USA vs. Australia match — a record notably boosted by Seahawks legend Marshawn Lynch joining the “march to the match.”
That single-day mark shattered the previous high-water mark of nearly 60,000 rides set during the Seahawks parade in February. Four of Lime’s top five all-time ridership days in Seattle occurred during the World Cup stretch.
“We’re extremely proud of our partners at SDOT, who have spent years building a program and infrastructure that compelled our CEO to call Seattle ‘the next micromobility-first city,'” Lime’s Hayden Harvey, a regional director of government relations, said in a statement. “We’re also grateful to our riders, the Seattleites who choose day in and day out; rain or shine, two wheeled transportation instead of four.”
The record-setting volume reflects Lime’s position as the only game in town. After rival operators exited the market, Lime became the exclusive vendor in the City of Seattle’s micromobility share program.
Lime has since scaled its footprint to 15,000 active devices that are serviced and staged out of a sprawling warehouse south of downtown in Georgetown.
Beyond fleet expansion, Lime is leaning into affordability to convert event riders into daily commuters. Alongside its existing LimeAccess program for low-income riders and its $5.99 monthly LimePrime subscription — which now counts more than 38,000 monthly subscribers in Seattle — the company rolled out a new commuter-hours pricing pilot this week that lowers per-minute rates during daytime travel windows.
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