FOLDING BIKES BLOG
Stories, tutorials, and advice from the Montague Bikes team.
Remembering
Today is the 11th Anniversary of the September 11th attacks. Montague Bikes would like to take a moment to remember and honor all those who have passed away, and all those who have served and continue to serve this nation. Military Bicycles In June of this year...
Economist Weighs In
The Economist weighs in from across the pond in this article about cycling in America. Several noteworthy trends include: overall trips have increased over the past thirty-some-odd years, showing remarkable increases in cycling across the United States over...
Cycle Haute Couture
Fashion Embraces Bicycles Now as the season changes from summer to autumn fall fashion comes to the fore. Fall fashion - more than any other season - brings out the crème de la crème of design. Last night Boston celebrated Fashion's Night Out. Yesterday, in...
Bike Smash!
The Show Here is the view from last year's InterBike booth, during a rare quiet moment in the crowds. Once again we prepare to make the trek to Las Vegas in just over a week for the great bicycle extravaganza! The office is full of boxes and banners, signs and...
Overpasses, Underpasses
Across the Pond Bicycles are getting people up and out of their chairs, striving forward for change on both sides of the Atlantic. Last week at Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany the European Cyclists' Federation met. The Federation, which began in 1983, has been...
Folding Adventure
We have just completed Labor Day weekend, what that is generally regarded as the end of summer. Some people have gotten married. Some have moved away and begun university. Our crew from HQ has just returned from Eurobike. We look now to the autumn and great cycling...
Lock it Down
Here at Montague we're big fans of folding up the bicycle and taking it inside. That's a bonus of a folding bike, it doesn't have to be left out in the cold. And not just the proverbial cold, the bicycle doesn't have to be left in the elements; subject to vandals,...
Community Orientation: Putting the Pieces Together
At Eurobike Yesterday we shared some of the goings-on this week at Eurobike in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Part of our booth this year is a new frame program that will begin in 2013. Many of our friends and fans have asked for our folding frames to be made available...
Live from Eurobike!
Many of the fine crew from Montague HQ are currently in Friedrichshafen, Germany attending the great yearly pilgramage point of all things cycling - or to put it another way - one of the largest industry tradeshows: Eurobike. The newest inventions and ideas in...
After the Sun Goes Down
Boston bicycle adventures... Adventures in the night: urban cycling is not restricted to the rising and setting of the sun. The city lights, especially in a place like Boston, which is a city that does sleep, provide illumination for all manner of adventures. Last...
Oh, The Places We Can Go!
Here at Montague HQ the intense temperatures of high summer have become a bit friendlier for cycling adventures. Montague Bikes is at Eurobike this week, but closer to home we've been taking full advantage of what folding bikes can do. Folding up and into an RV, this...
Install Options
First Timer Bottom Bracket Install on a Boston 8 We took out a square taper bottom bracket last time, and now we're installing something of completely different style. An integrated bottom bracket and crank set situation. These are SRAM Omnium cranks which integrate...
Getting to the Bottom of Things
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 move, or there is...
Invisible Bike Helmets?
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...
Academic Bicycles
It has come to pass that you can study bicycles at school - higher education to be precise. No longer solely the intellectual property of cycling enthusiasts, couriers, athletes, and annoyed motorists, academia has claimed its stake in the ongoing conversation of...
Taking Back the Streets?
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 University has...
Abandoned Bikes
Whether purchased new or used, a bike is an investment. And yet so often we see bicycles looking like this: Which is not how we imagine our bicycles will look when we first get them. Here at Montague HQ we are of the simple philosophy of fold it up and take it...
Minnesota leading the Change in Bike Friendly
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...
