FOLDING BIKES BLOG
Stories, tutorials, and advice from the Montague Bikes team.
Journey into the Unknown
We've been talking about commuting recently, this adventure is a byproduct of bike commuting growing into a greater love of cycling. November Adventure This past weekend I undertook an adventure a long time in the making. Since becoming a more and more enthusiastic...
Montague Folding Frame Sets in the News!
Road.cc We've been in the news a little recently. The UK's popular cycling forum, Road.cc reports on Montague's folding frame sets in their tech round up! Folding Cyclist And closer to home The Folding Cyclist has...
The New Commute: New York After Sandy
In case you're tuning in from another part of the world, Hurricane Sandy made it's way up the east coast and threw everything she had against New York and New Jersey at the beginning of this week. We're seeing the greatest natural disaster New York has faced in...
Halloween Ride: Boston
What happens when you take hundreds of enthusiastic cyclists, put them together on Halloween and let them loose on the streets? The Halloween Bike Ride is what happens! Hundreds of costumed cyclists gathered in Jamaica Plain on Halloween and rode out. Inventive...
Bike Commuting: Incentives
A definition: incentive - comes from Middle English, from Late Latin incentivum, from neuter of incentivus stimulating, from Latin, setting the tune, from incentus, past participle of incinere to play (a tune), from in- + canere to sing - as defined by my dictionary....
Get on the Bandwagon
Has your state gotten on the bandwagon? Or perhaps better worded as bike-wagon? As our part of the east coast starts to pick up the pieces left by Hurricane Sandy, we have found the thoughts of sunny days returning and beautiful bike rides to be a sustaining source of...
Commuting: Protecting Your Bike
We've started talking about bicycle commuting. One of the prime concerns, especially for new commuters is keeping your bike secure while you're at work. More companies are making it a priority to have secure and covered bike parking, in fact in Cambridge, MA - where...
How to Bike Commute Safely
Born of Dream and Desire to Bike I want to be a bike commuter. I don't want to have to sit in traffic. I want to save some more money. I'd like to lose some weight. Being able to take the train sometimes would still be helpful... But I don't know anything about...
City Cycling Ways
Bikenomics? New York City's seeing some changes, quantifiable ones too, and they're coming from bicycling. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the good sense of cycling and economics. The report found that in places where New York City had implemented bike...
Folding Bike Commute
Do you ever bike to work? Do you drive part way and then pedal? (What we call Park and Pedal.) Do you ride part way and then take the train? How is your folding bike commute? Unfold and ride to work, then fold up and keep it under the desk during the workday -...
Folding Framesets
It's been mentioned on Urban Velo and Bike Rumor. Bicycle Retailer covered it at InterBike. We announced it for the first time at Eurobike. What can it be? Folding Framesets. Now if you are of the inclination, interest, or skill-set to build up your own folding bike -...
Folding Bikes on the Radio
We've mentioned this once or twice already, this past summer Montague Bikes partnered with Prime, Inc. to help transform driver health. This has been covered in trucking industry publications and most recently on the radio! You can listen to last Thursday night's...
Healthy Changes
The Familiar Story Say you're on a road trip, your stomach starts to grumble. You keep driving for a bit. Maybe the car needs gas, maybe your friends or, let's say the kids in the back start saying they're hungry too. The road sign, or the GPS, or the app on your...
Bikes Thrive Where Least Expected
Maybe you've heard about the bike lanes in New York, bike shares taking off across the world, and the other cycling headlines. "Sure, that's great for them - all this bicycle hullabaloo But that's not happening where I live," you might think. But prepare to be...
Bike Theft: Fold It Up. Take It Inside.
Not many, if any of us - are lucky enough to receive a written apology from the thief if someone steals our bike. This along with getting the bike back happened for one very fortunate man in Oregon. For most of us, if our bike is stolen it is sadly a one way street....
Tour de Somerville: Edge of the City Tour
In the town next door to Montague HQ there is a vibrant bicycle group, the Somerville Bicycle Committee. Each year for the past 20 years they have hosted the Tour de Somerville, this year's theme was the "Edge of the City Tour" which was just that - a group bicycle...
Traffic and Helmet Hair
Coming home last week I saw a neighbor with a bandaged wrist and a neck brace. When asked what had occurred he said that he had been struck by a car while he was biking home on his new bike that night. The helmet saved his life he said. (And he was proud to say his...
Bicycles Changing Lives
On the Radio Next week Montague Bikes will be on the radio. To be specific we'll be guests on The Extreme Truckers Show, along with Siphiwe Baleka, Driver Fitness Coach for Prime, Inc and founder of Fitness Trucking. Mr. Baleka has been at the vanguard of...
