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….
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
For most of the U.S. (and I say most, because here in Arizona, we prefer to be different), the Daylight Savings time switch has darkened many a bike commute. In the fall, when the time switch occurs, there is one hour less of daylight in the afternoon, which means a much darker bike commute. Fortunately,…
Acep sent in some great shots of what looks like it could be a rain forest bike commute, but is more likely some day tripping with a Vaude Seatpost Mounted Bag transporting his gear.
Last winter, I broke my pinky at the start of the cold season. I was riding a road bike at night, without bike lights, down a trail with the brakes a bit out of tune. I bailed out while dealing with a deep rut in the trail. Surgery ensued, with little pins holding my mangled…
Bikes Needed at Occupy Wall Street
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been and why I don’t write more often, then you are my mom. But the answer is Bike Tech Shop. I’ve been pouring many work hours into launching this new online shop dedicated to “cycling with circuitry.” Clever, huh? Commute by Bike has been, well, slightly neglected while my…
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