Rakish Reviews

As a “chronicle of compelling conveyances” the Rakish Ride will from time to time offer reviews of bikes and related products of interest, in the hopes that a whole bunch of people will like, or at least respect, an honest and unbiased assessment of the various bike related products I have purchased and use.

As I am sure you can imagine at least one bonus outcome of such an endeavor is that companies will send me their gear to review, and then I will have more gear. But of course there is always the dilemma that free stuff gets better reviews right? So to counter the possibility of such a bias I will endeavor to donate all the gear I review to charities, send it back or pay for it, depending on what it is. Frankly I have a stockpile of stuff already awaiting review that I have purchased outright at full retail price and have been using for months if not longer so it will probably be quite some time before I get through all that to the freebies.

Eventually, if it all goes to plan I will have a bike shop and an on line shop (not sure which will come first to be honest) where you can buy the stuff I review. For now I will just link to sources I trust other than Amazon, who is the Wal Mart of the Internet as far as I am concerned. If you have gear you think I might be interested in reviewing you can contact me using the form at the bottom of this page.

Below is a list of gear I own that I think merits a review. If you are considering the purchase of any of these pieces and want to see a review drop me a line and I will move your item up the queue. In no particular order, the items are:

Modern Bikes:

All City Macho Man

Handsome Devil

Pinarello FP Due

Xtra-cycle Cargo Bike Kit

Vintage Bikes

Bianchi Superleggera

Various 80’s Trek Road Bikes

90’s Trek MTB’s

Vintage Schwinn Cruisers

80’s Bridgestone 200 Mixte

Miyata 610 Touring