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Bill's Ortlieb-Revelate-Extrawheel Extravaganza!

Extrawheel trailers are on sale!! at Bike Trailer Shop thru September 4th.   Showcasing the Extrawheel Voyager‘s tremendous cargo carrying capabilities is Bill’s custom built ready-to-tour bike.   The setup includes a Revelate Designs Tangle frame pack, the rack mounted and ever-popular Ortlieb Back Roller Classics in black and yellow (black and yellow black and yellow, everything…

Anti-Cycling Infographic Desguised as Pro-Cycling

Infoschmucks: Anti-Cycling Infographic Disguised as Pro-Cycling

There’s a new infographic making the rounds. If you follow bike-related blogs, Facebookers, or Twitterers you might have seen it. And it purports to provide “Depressing Statistics of Bicycle Accidents” on cycling in Great Britain. The only thing depressing to me is how many bloggers, Facebookers, and Twitterers uncritically regurgitated this — as they always…

Rick's Sick Helmet Plummage, Bro!

Rick has been a busy collector on his 10,000 mile bike journey through the southern California desert.   1200 miles in, he has collected eight feathers from eight different species of bird.   Wonder what the next 8800 miles will bring?   And the rest of you: beware the mighty and elusive mythical desert peacock.  

Project Bikes Anonymous

Project Bikes Anonymous

For every crazy cat lady, there must be dozens of women who are (as the bumper sticker says), “One bad relationship away from having 30 cats.” There is a bike equivalent to this phenomenon: Guys (as long as we’re indulging stereotypes) who can’t stop collecting stray bikes. In my town, that guy is Elson Miles,…

A Bike Trailer for Car-Sized Errands

This is our newsletter for the month.If you’d like to get this delivered to you inbox, subscribe here. The Wandertec Tuba:A Bike Trailer for Life-Sized Loads Some errands are an excuse to use the family car.Sorry, America, we want to change that.We’ve designed a trailer for carrying the loads that used to go in your…

Doctor's Orders: Ride Naked (The Best Underwear for Cycling in Regular Duds)

Doctor's Orders: Ride Naked

BluesCat is a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, who originally returned to bicycling in 2002 in order to help his son get the Boy Scout Cycling merit badge. His bikes sat idle until the summer of 2008 when gas prices spiked at over $4.00 per gallon. Since then, he has become active cycling, day-touring, commuting by…

Mark and Archie Head to Work

Mark and son Archie have an 8 mile commute by bike to work. “He loves the top bar seat as he can constantly ask me questions along the way!” Love the stylish helmet and boots Archie!

Peter the Pirate Bobbing the Queen's Jubilee

London has seen a lot of action rolling through it in the past few years, including Prince William and Kate Middleton’s elaborate wedding, the summer Olympic games, and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee which took place at the end of July 2012. In the midst of the royal Jubilee, Peter rolled his bike around the country…

Marc's Mexico Adventure with Ortlieb

Marc is enjoying his summer in Playa del Carmen, Mexico as we kick off another Ortlieb summer sale.   Marc’s Strida folding bike is outfitted with the Ortlieb Front Roller Classics. He comments, “I love the fact that they’re totally waterproof, to ward off the frequent tropical storms.” Weathering your own storms this summer? Or want…

Post Heatwave Sale on Ortlieb, Tubus & Racktime

This is our newsletter for the month.If you’d like to get this delivered to you inbox, subscribe here. Good Riddance, Heatwave! Did the heatwave of June and July toast your summer cycling plans? It’s over now, and there’s still plenty of summer left. And to help you salvage your summer riding and touring plans, all…

Sam's Thoughts on his Ortlieb Purchase

We’re going to be publishing some of the glowing reviews we get from our customers here under this new section of our blog. Here is the first of them… Hi – you asked for feedback, so here are some brief comments before it slips my mind.Second purchase from you with short timeframe, so that’s a…

Bicycle Traveler Magazine

Always happy to share other great cycling advocacy and adventure resources, we received this guest post from Grace Johnson, publisher of Bicycle Traveler magazine and TravellingTwo.com: Bicycle Traveler is a new "“ and free "“ online bicycle touring magazine.   It's full of entertaining stories and inspiring photography which will have you dreaming over new destinations…