In the midst of our Black Friday thru Cyber Monday sales, we’ve also launched some sales on our trailer-cycles. We have both Adams and Weehoo Trailer Cycles on sale for 10% off through Dec. 13th.This photo was snapped riding along side a bike commuting family that I kept seeing towards the end of the summer….
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20% off Chrome on a Small Business Saturday
You may or may not have heard of Small Business Saturday. Today is a great day to support small, local businesses.While we are not local to most of our customers, we can certainly qualify for your patronage today as a small business with a focus on community. And as of this May, we also do…
Small Business Saturday
November 26, 2011 is Small Business Saturday, a counterpart to Black Friday and Cyber Monday, which tend to benefit major big box retail and e-commerce stores. Small Business Saturday encourages holiday shoppers to buy from businesses that are small and local. I believe in shopping local, and supporting small businesses. But not all brick-and-mortar business…
Xuzhou's Bike Touring Smorgasbord for Black Friday Sales
I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving celebrations. Now that you’ve fueled up on some good home cooking, like the rest of retail America, we are encouraging you to burn up all those extra calories in a buying frenzy. We’ve got a whole bunch of Black Friday thru Cyber Monday Specials underway. Here is a quick…
Thanksgiving Turkey and the Many Hats of Robin Carlson
I thought today would be a good day to post some silly photos of Robin wearing some of his packing material based hats for two reasons. #1 Robin is our own in-house turkey keeping us all entertained with his antics and this is the day of Turkeys. #2 it just so happens today is Robin’s…
Green Guru Spinner Backpack
Zipper pulls. That’s really all I’m asking for. Zipper pulls. I’ve owned a lot of backpacks over the years. Messenger bags, too. And, for several years, mostly just so that I would be able to confidently tell people, I’ve commuted with a messenger bag for years, I’ve been commuting somewhat consistently with a messenger bag….
A Raleigh Traditionalist and The Raleigh Classic Roadster
I’ve been a Raleigh fan for as long as I can remember. My first 10-speed was a Raleigh Record, bought and paid for with hard-earned car waxing money. I knew all about “wax-on, wax-off” long before Ralph was just a gleam in Mr. Macchio’s eye. But for all the cars I waxed to earn that…
Paseo de Todos Ride in Guadalajara
Paseo de Todos Ride in Guadalajara
Alpine Pedaler Spotting
I was downtown this weekend and spotted this pedaling party on wheels rolling down the street. I fumbled for my camera and got this somewhat blurry shot. This is a new business here in Flagstaff for pedaling parties through the downtown area. Looks like a blast and I think I’m going to have to get…
Geek my Fixie – Part 1: Ortlieb Ultimate 5 Compact Classic Handlebar Bag
Josh King lives in Seattle, where he commutes by bike every day, rain or shine. He switched to full-time single speed commuting in 2010. You can read his thoughts on going gearless at www.singlespeedseattle.com As I've said before, my fixed-gear bike is no fashion statement. It's my daily ride to work, and, increasingly, my go-to…
Will It Fit? Troubleshooting How To Mount Tubus Rear Racks On Your Touring Bike When It’s Not Easy.
Modern touring bikes have over the years undergone a series of microevolutions from what we will call “standard non-touring bikes” so as to be used to travel across vast regions, states and even countries for days, weeks, months, or years. All these makeovers are geared towards making these bikes versatile and durable trail companions that…
Sucking It Up In Winter
Vanessa Marie Robinson is a Brooklyn-based industrial designer who’s blog For The Love Of Bikes covers her multifaceted interests in all things cycling. She is typically found either riding in the city on a single-speed or training upstate on her road bike — year-round! Biking year-round as a university student living in Montreal taught me how to survive whatever…
The Holstee Manifesto
The Holstee Manifesto
A Bike Commuter is Born — On the Bainbridge Ferry
Yesterday was nepotism day here on Commute by Bike. Today it’ll be cronyism. Tobias Eigen is a friend from the years I spent living in the Washington, DC Beltway — Takoma Park, Maryland to be specific. (“Capital of hippie-land… home of the squirrel lady and that guy who walks around swinging a dead fox.”) I…
Herb's Vaude Silk Road Plus on Tour
Our Vaude Sale continues on through next Tuesday, so I thought I’d post another contributed photo of Vaude bags on adventures. This Vaude Silk Road Plus Racktop Bag looks well purposed on a folding bike credit card tour. In Herb’s words: I just took a 3 day credit card tour of the Allegheney Gap Bike…
Fight Road Rash with a Good Headlight
Matthew D. Johnson, Ph.D. is the director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory and formerly the deputy to the president of Binghamton University, blah de blah blah… He’s my brother. Sounds like a smart guy, huh? Like I said, he’s my brother. Decide for yourself. –Ted I have been thinking about the advantages of…
Janice Turner's NYC Biking Story
Janice Turner’s NYC Biking Story
Kalkhoff Pro Connect Review & The Panasonic Crank Drive
It’s been a busy summer of sales at the www.CampfireCycling.com and the JOYBAG ® project stalled out of the gates a bit as our team got sidetracked from blogging with fulfilling all of those nagging orders that kept coming in. But like a caterpillar into its cocoon our collective JOYBAG ® mind has been weaving away and…
A2B Metro E-Basket
I wasn’t really using this basket to carry laundry. But zip tying on the back of the A2B Metro’s bike rack was a convenient place to get it home to where it was needed. I think there is an interesting collision of junk, tetchiness and consumer products in this photo bending in tones of grey.
World Bicycle Relief
World Bicycle Relief
Blinkiology: The Study of Rear Blinkies
One of the most common pieces of advice that newbie commuters hear is that you can never be too visible. From a mostly selfish point of view, I have to agree with this sage advice. If I'm riding at night through the streets of DC, I prefer to be as visible as possible so that…
RideKick Trailers and BikeTechShop.com
With the launch of BikeTechShop.com, we are becoming quite familiar with electric bike and electric assist kits. Another direction in electric that we’ve always been interested especially given our roots with BikeTrailerShop.comhas been electric powered bike trailers. The idea of having an electric push from a bike trailer has intrigued us from multiple perspectives. It…
A car site talks sense about cyclists. We've infiltrated the beast!
Carbuzz.co.uk is a UK-based a car research site, which momentarily lost command of their senses and published “What drivers can do to be more cyclist aware.” One of the authors is Chris Gidney, “a keen cyclist and technician at SRAM.” Carlton Reid also has some of his fingerprints on this. It’s hard to imagine a…
Prototyping the Really Big Wandertec BONGO
I thought I’d post up these preview shots of some early prototyping of the new larger versions of the Wandertec BONGO bike trailer that we’ve been working on. While we are keeping the original design in the small version around, we’re replacing the large with a similar sized but newly designed version and an XL…