Henry Cutler, aka "Henry Workcycles" has been building unique cargo bikes in Holland for quite some time now. After years of friendship we decided to stop making social calls and
The Batavus Utility Bike (BuB) which was launched with great fanfare atthis years Interbike has just won a prestigious iF award from the International Forum in Hannover, Germany. Noted for
The Fietsvak bike show in Holland is probably deadly boring to Dutch bike retailers, but fascinating to us out-of-towners. In many ways, the Fietsvak is the Dutch bicycle industries way
For those who follow our little online magazine you know that we get around a fair bit. There is a less-than-glamorous reason for this. As importers of Europe's city bikes,
The automobile has always been a measure of success in North America. This is hardly a controversial statement. Car ownership has not only been a measure of personal success but
Hillary Clinton on a Biomega? At the very least she will be shaking hands over one this week at the COP15 summit. Leaders have been invited to the house of
Mikeal Colville-Anderson, in his popular blog Copenhagenize, recently posted a very interesting article around the issue of ’subculture’ in emerging city bike cultures. Mikeal argues that city cycling needs to
New York has its bike lanes. Portland has its homegrown bike manufacturers. Toronto has bicycle-choked traffic. And Montreal? Montreal has always had thousands of (very fashionable) people riding their bikes
Joebike is a whole new breed of bicycle store. Not surprisingly, its based in Portland, home of some revolutionary bicycle shop concepts. Joebike is an art gallery, a bicycle repair
Many people in North America are jumping back on bikes again, but are – legitimately – scared of theft. This, of course, is fair enough. In Europe a large network
Hudson Urban Bicycles presents the first ever NYC bicycle fashion show, “Bike Style”. Located in the West Village, the HUB aims to change the way New Yorkers view bicycling. “By
We go to Interbike every year and we have never – and we mean never – seen so many city bikes. Sure, there were road and mountain bikes in varying
