A few weeks back I had the pleasure of attending an event here in Minneapolis where bike designer Sky Yeager spoke about her company Shinola and their design philosophy. With Thanks to Leah McMullen I was also invited to dine with Sky and a few other friends of Shinola like the makers of my favorite espresso at …
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I have always been a fan of the USA made steel Trek bikes built in Wisconsin up until the mid to late 1990’s. When I was working at Penn Cycle in the late 80’s I came to appreciate the much better build quality of Trek bikes, relative to comparably priced models from other brands, and loved …
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Part of the master plan for Rakish Ride has always been to build a bike sharing/rental scheme and that plan is coming along rather nicely. As part of the planning process I do “research” on bike sharing and rental schemes and most importantly I actually use them every chance I get. This past week I …
This may be the coolest motorcycle show on the planet… Check out my gallery of images from the 2014 Bearded Lady Motorcycle Freak Show Here
When we set off from Middleburg we were pretty wiped out from the previous days long ride and it was raining, so we cheated, sort of and got on the train with our bike to ride the 10 miles or so to Vlissingen where we hopped the ferry to Veerhaven. Once we arrived on the …
After 4 days of luxury and copious amounts of food and drink we set off on three straight days of riding about 60-80km each day. Our first destination was a small rural B&B just outside the city of Hellevoetsluis, which was easy to find thanks to the GPS tips I had gotten the day before …
Last week Beth and I returned from our first bike touring trip together. We packed up our bikes, flew to Amsterdam and rode through the Netherlands to Bruges Belgium and then on the Ghent and Antwerp before hopping a train to spend the last few days of our trip in Paris. By all accounts (most importantly …
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It has been an epically cold and snowy winter here in MN and despite getting my All City Macho Man shod with studded tires I have not logged nearly enough miles to prepare for our upcoming tour of Holland, Belgium and France. As it turns out this would have been the perfect winter to get …
That was the temp today when I had a moment of clarity regarding cycling through the winter…this winter in particular being an example of just how dedicated one would need to commute via bike in MN through the entire year. Since my mate Michael Colville Anderson was waxing poetic about the virtues of his fellow …
Having read grant Petersons excellent book Just Ride last week I have come to realize that I have in some ways I have taken my cycling far too seriously. As a former racer and something of a bike industry legend Peterson has a lot to say about cycling, it’s culture, norms and place within society, …
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