When we started touring together a bit and riding as often as we were, we noticed that the only carrier bags we could buy were ugly as fuck. We thought: we can make something better than this.

Read More

I just spent six days in Florence, riding up in the hills north of the city. Bright red poppies line the roads through lemon and olive farms. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world to ride.

Read More

When we do a great job, feel free to reward us. That includes beer, bagels, Sue’s homemade cookies, or anything like that. However, we are in retail, and things happen. If we screw up, let us apologize and make it right.

Read More

Twenty words is hardly enough to explain how much commuting, cruising, and possibly crashing would happen if it were mine. David P.

Read More

I was biking right up to the day before I went into labor. I rode to an appointment and back, out to lunch and back, and then I went into labor. When I was in labor I was really too uncomfortable to ride. We took a cab.

Read More

Bikes, replacement parts, locks, lights, and helmets cost money. Time, patience, and your willingness to learn how to build and work on your bike keeps these costs down.

Read More

The cyclist-inferiority phobia, complex, or superstition is the sense that, “I, the cyclist, don’t really belong on the road, which is owned by the cars, and that I am unable to follow the traffic laws for drivers of vehicles, or that if I did I would quickly be smashed.”

Read More

Before you do anything else: clean and lube your bike, pump up your tires, and try to locate your repair issues. You’d be surprised how many little issues get resolved with a good dose of degreaser and chain lube.

Read More

They climbed towering mountain passes and confronted prairie winds head-on for days and crossed several food deserts along the way. In sum, they biked 4,521 miles, across 16 states, over 107 days to capture stories of the local food movement through 18 community potlucks with 432 potluck-goers.

Read More

Cycling doesn’t have referees, and we don’t usually get crowds of onlookers cheering us on. We’re kind of on our own.

Read More

Being girly and riding bikes—in whatever way you want—is an extremely powerful combination.

Read More

Commuting in Birmingham is not for the faint of heart. It is with good reason that the League of American Bicyclists ranked Alabama No. 50 in the 2009 Bicycle Friendly State Rankings.

Read More

What is provoked when watching Muppets on bikes is really the same unsettling question that dominates our own rides: How is it that bicycles stay up in the first place, for anyone?

Read More

There is more that you must do in the quiet hours of the year.

Read More

Aífe’s instant acceptance of being pedaled around the city was a delightful surprise. Poking her little head over the top of the box, she watched and sniffed as much as she could take in.

Read More

Saturdays, I ride / to play pinball at the gas station, hair tied back, / wind stroking my forehead. My legs burn / on the climb.

Read More

Take two wheels, a pair of handlebars…You’ll get a seamless flow, the present moment distilled as it scrolls past. Your thoughts scatter but settle again eventually like black birds on a wire.

Read More

The frigid fog cloaks you, wraps you in its October embrace, from which you yell into the sky your lovely, untold plans.

Read More

There are awesome reflective stickers on
 the bike, which makes darting out in front of automobiles on dark evenings and asserting one’s absolute and total right of way even more self-righteously awesome.

Read More

Going up for so long means going slow: you notice everything on the road. Moose droppings look like smashed Milk Duds. People seem to lose a lot of single shoes. Any headwind at all seems totally defeating.

Read More