Yea, the Xtracycle folks do *not* know how to put pictures on their sites that convey their products! It's kinda hard, though, to get the right angle.

The wooden surf-board thingy has four plastic c-shaped clips that snap around the tubes that hold the racks. You take that off - the blender has the same kind of little plastic feet that clip it right over the wheel. It's got a cute little whieel down inside of it that you adjust around so it's wedged against the bike wheel, so that when the bike wheel turns, that little wheel turns, and that makes the blade wheel turn, 'way in the middle of the air, just like ol' Ezekiel said.

You can do it two ways - you can put the bike up on a stand and spin, or you can use the portable industrial-strength bottle-blades and actually blend while you're riding. I haven't done that - it seems like a *lot* of work with the extra friction, and since I can't walk and chew gum at the same time I"m not going to set myself up to explain things at the ER. However, that could easily inspire a salt-rimmed-glass-bearing margarita-seeker to be leaping merrily along behind me.

I change when I get to work - a garment bag could fit in the side bags if I had to look *really* nice, but I generally don't. I love not having to plan how to pack.