Citizen Rider

 As part of the bike industry's damage control response to the Covid-19 bike boom, major players like Specialized and Trek have cut loos...

Thinking more about why the bike industry needs to have more self respect , reasons for that all stem from the increasing complexity and tec...

Early in the pandemic response in this country, transportation cycling has been held up as an emerging alternative in areas where public tra...

A recent convert to the smokeless moped posted this graphic showing their growth in Europe. It's from this article on a site called E...

I could have said pack horse, but I get a feeling of going into battle when I set out on the commute. I know we're not supposed to say t...

Part of mountain biking's evolution can be seen in how riding venues are found and promoted. The 1990s was the Age of the Guidebook. L...

I heard a rumor today that a bike shop in a nearby town, known to specialize in mountain bikes, was planning to relocate to Wolfeboro. The o...

The departure of winter weather has brought in the first bike repair of the season. New England has always had five seasons: spring, summe...

At the beginning of the week, my employer directed my attention to an opinion piece in Bicycle Retailer, written by Onza founder Dan Sotelo....

Our customer building up a fleet of Surly bikes added a Troll to the lineup this summer. Building a Surly is always a welcome relief from th...

As I was picking congealed grease out of a Shimano Rapidfire shifter pod dating from about 1991, I actually appreciated how solidly it wa...

When you get a lighter bike, it feels unbelievably agile and quick. For weeks, you feel like a superhero. For months you smile at the sight ...

A triathlete friend of mine is making her final campaign at full Iron Man  distance, in November. Endurance athletics serve a therapeutic ...

A friend had a mid-1990s Iron Horse with a blown-out Marzocchi fork. After brief consideration of rebuilding or replacing the suspension for...

A guy who used to ride mountain bikes with us in the 1990s, before the needs of family life took him off the trails, wandered back into the ...

The bike business does not respect age. Not surprising when you consider that a young adult can propel and maneuver the vehicle to its great...

When Big G finished building up his new Specialized Roubaix last week, he put it on the scale in the shop. Drum roll... Twenty-two poun...

And so my season begins. Local rider brings in the bike he got somewhere else because the shifting went bad on him during his abusive first ...

Big G sent me an email the other night. He needed to tell me he had ordered himself a Specialized Roubaix road bike. After all we've b...

Looking at the extended forecast, we get one little dip into the frigid, but after that the trend climbs a couple of degrees each day. Dayti...