by Montague Bikes | Aug 23, 2012 | Commute, Maintenance |
Getting to the bottom of things, we have the bottom bracket. This is a part of the bicycle we do not often think about. It’s down there, at the bottom of the frame, home of the spindle – the place where the cranks connect. Unless the cranks don’t...
by Montague Bikes | Aug 22, 2012 | Commute, Lifestyle |
Recently Focus Forward Films examined the Hovding. It took two lady design students in Sweden seven years to develop. It looks and wears like a scarf, but at the crucial moment inflates into some of the most comprehensive head and neck protection a cyclist could...
by Montague Bikes | Aug 20, 2012 | Commute, Environment, Lifestyle, Recreation |
What you see above is an image of what the streets of San Jose, CA look like when mapped for ease of bike-ability. Looks like a lot of islands doesn’t it? Islands Peter Furth, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Boston’s Northeastern...
by Montague Bikes | Aug 16, 2012 | Activism, Commute, Environment, Events, Lifestyle, Travel |
Articles abound in newspapers, magazines, and the web about the battle for the streets; cyclists and motor vehicles vying for the roads. At least this is the tone many writers and commentators take on the evolving transit culture of our world. But in one place at...
by Montague Bikes | Aug 15, 2012 | Adventure, Commute, Travel |
The BBC recently reported on a gentleman who rode his bicycle from China to England for the Olympics. Beginning in May 2012, Chen Guangming left Erchen, Jiangsu province on a journey that would take him more than 85,000 miles to London. Traveling on his...
by Montague Bikes | Aug 14, 2012 | Activism, Commute, Environment, Lifestyle |
The Regional Plan Association (RPA) is the nation’s oldest independent urban research and advocacy group. One of the nation’s most distinguished of such groups, the RPA has been serving New York since the 1920s. Last week the RPA posted an article...
