Category: News

surly troll

Surly updates the Cross-Check, Troll

News We’re at Saddle Drive near Lake Tahoe this week checking out new bikes from Quality Bicycle Products (QBP), the parent company of Surly, All-City, Foundry, Heller, and Salsa. Because of the proliferation of...

randonneuring

A Beginners Guide to Randonneuring

Randonneuring is long-distance, unsupported, non-competitive cycling within prescribed time limits. The events—called brevets—are 200km (13.5-hour time cut-off ), 300km (20 hours), 400km (27 hours), 600km (40 hours), and 1000km (75 hours). Grand Randonnées are...

Strider Bikes unveils a Carbon Balance Bike

Looks like the engineers over at Strider Bikes decided to have a little fun with their newest addition to the Strider 12 lineup, the carbon Strider 12 ST-R Balance Bike. The 12 ST-R features...

Music in the Mountains

By: Adam Perry As I set my Long Haul Trucker down at a Ride the Rockies aid station this spring atop Ute Pass, approximately 9,500 feet above sea level in central Colorado, a scruffy...

Portland might allow bicycles at drive-thru windows

We’ve all been there. You stayed out later than you planned and the party you were just at’s idea of food doesn’t match the buffet you had in your head. You’re riding home, it’s...