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 of kick-starting the year by showing some ‘late release’ products and ‘limited edition’ products that keep consumers anxious and the bike industry on their toes after a boring winter…
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, we feel obligated to ensure that we bring in the best and only the best. Our travels are a great way to experience the very different bike cultures of Europe and find vendors that are…
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 move from the subculture to the ‘mainstream’, a point we have often argued, since subcultures often identify as being ‘exclusive’ over ‘inclusive’ – and encourage [...]
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 in the city, miles upon miles of cycling lanes, and now? Now: it has Bixi. Want to find one of the oldest and most prolific [...]
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 stripes, but city bikes won the show, hands down. Three years ago the entire show was an ejaculation of carbon fiber, this year it’s not [...]
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We recently took a trip to NYC to visit our two dealers ModSquad bikes and HubStation. We also went to participate in the 5 Boro Ride, and to see how NYC is celebrating its 400th anniversary, officially entitled “NY400, Holland on the Hudson”. From [...]
Coming back to North America after a night of sipping wine at Montmarte is never easy, but it is good to be back. Europe has its own challenges with bicycle culture, but we’re ready to face ours head on. Europe is romanticized as a bicycle utopia, but this couldn’t be further from the truth. We [...]
Our journeys take us at last to the very center of European bicycle culture, the Netherlands. The Netherlands stands in sharp contrast to the rest of the bicycle cultures we visited throughout Europe. This is, perhaps, because the culture is so engrained that it is simply taken for granted – a luxury that is still [...]
A friend from Amsterdam once told us that he loved riding in North America because there were no rules. This came as a shock for a company like ours that idealizes Dutch bicycle culture. North American cities have more rules than you would think. Paris has no rules whatsoever. Unlike NYC, Chicago or LA, Paris [...]
Ah, England. Undulating hills, stone-fenced pastures, and the local pub. Pashley may be the most romantic bicycle company on earth.
Based in Stratford-upon-Avon – the home of Shakespeare – the company has been making bikes for over 80 years, making them one of the most experienced bicycle manufacturers on earth. Like Brompton and Moulton, Pashley bikes [...]
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