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 start importing the WorkCycles line into Canada (the US is already covered, in this case). Workcycles represents the Dutch obsession with quality in the archetypical sense…
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 shop, a retailer of specialty bicycles, and a manufacturer of specialty bicycles. Only in Portland! Yet Portland remains an enigma to the bicycle cultures throughout [...]
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 of institutions support the bicycle users daily lock-up, from insurance companies, to police, to city planners, to the bicycle industry itself. This, obviously, is not [...]
Copenhagen Cyclery started about a year ago in Chicago, seeking to ‘copenhagenize‘ the Chicago streets. Chicago has often played second fiddle to the media obsession with the urban infrastructure of Portland, and more recently, NYC – but the Chicago bike scene is a fine example of a large scale, established bicycle culture in a major [...]
The Eastern seaboard has seen a positive deluge of rain this year. While bike cultures are rapidly advancing in cities like NYC, Chicago, Toronto and Montreal, the overall spirit has been dampened – literally. While places like Amsterdam and Copenhagen see continuous cycle usage despite the weather, the streets of the Eastern seaboard seem hauntingly [...]
Pashley is a legendary company, and the oldest company producing bicycles in the United Kingdom. We’ve been importing Pashley for nearly six years, and with phenomenal success. The bikes are beautifully crafted, and each and every one by hand. Visiting Pashley – which we do often – is always a rare thrill. To see bikes [...]
Victor Cuevas Jr, owner of Rain City Bikes is almost certainly Vancouver’s ‘new man’. Not only does he own Vancouver’s nicest city bikes, he also sports Vancouver’s nicest hairstyle. It helps that he owns Rain City Salon and Rain City Bikes – a strange, but prescient combination. Victor is a familar face riding around Vancouver, [...]
Flying Pigeon LA is that new breed of bike store that is getting regular folks onto lycra-free city bikes. Josef, the owner started off with the venerable Flying Pigeon brand from China, and soon realized that many customers wanted something higher quality, like Batavus bikes. Today Josef has customers from all over LA visiting his [...]
We’re pretty used to heading out to Europe for our business trips, and it was a nice surprise when Ralph Prins (above middle), export manager of Batavus told us he was coming to town to see what we were up to. He couldn’t have picked a worse time for weather. Nonetheless, we thought it would [...]
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