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Oregon Manifest Constructor's Design Challenge
The Oregon Manifest Constructor’s Design Challenge aims to inspire frame builders and designers to develop considered, integrated, and spectacular solutions for the everyday rider. This challenge will showcase the quality, engineering ingenuity, and functionality of modern handbuilt bikes. Come see the latest in functional innovation!
Oregon Manifest October 2 – November 8
Oregon Manifest celebrates the art, craft and community of bicycling. Our mission is to engage a wide audience with cycling lifestyle through innovative, influential events around the bicycle.
Commute By Bike Is Back and Kicking It Live
This past spring the original owner of Commute By Bike, Tim Grahl, had to make a tough choice. Out:Think, his web design business, was taking off much faster than a rate he could handle while trying to run Crooked Cog Network. Slowly the sites separated as Guitar-Ted took over Twenty Nine Inches himself and Commute…
Review : Banjo Brothers Commuter Backpack
Originally posted at our sister site BikeShopGirl.com Banjo Brothers makes some of the greatest, affordable, commuter packs and bags in the industry. When they sent me a message about a new WHITE Commuter Backpack I was thrilled to be one of the first to review this product for them. Information from Banjo Brothers about their…
Announcing the Launch of the Wandertec BONGO Bike Trailer!
There’s a new bike trailer in town! The Wandertec Bongo Bike Trailer. Need to get those groceries home but they won’t fit in your backpack? Need to make some deliveries but the messenger bag just doesn’t cut it? Need to tour around the world? The Wandertec BONGO is your answer. We’ve put our years of…
The Wandertec BONGO Bike Trailer has arrived!
Wandertec and the BikeTrailerShop.com are proud to introduce a new trailer for 2010, the Wandertec BONGO Bike Trailer. The BONGO is our answer to the call for the ultimate utility bicycle trailer. Here at Wandertec we see many different types of bicycle trailers and receive a lot of feedback from customers. We felt there was…
UtilityCycling.org Will Be At Interbike
It’s that time of the year. Time to break out the comfy walking shoes and the sparkly dancing shoes. Time to prepare for the neon-soaked, glitz-infested streets of Las Vegas. Time to brace oneself for the extreme sensory overload that is Interbike. UtilityCycling.org will be attending Interbike, which is North America’s largest bicycle trade show,…
World Carfree Day – Tuesday, September 22
Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 22, is World Carfree Day! World Carfree Day is part of the World Carfree Network, which is a great online source for information on how to revitalize cities and towns in such a way as to be less car-centric. The World Carfree Network refers to the carfree movement broadly in reference to…
(PARK)ing Day 2009
Today is (PARK)ing Day! For those who are not familiar with it, (PARK)ing Day is a movement to reclaim and transform public spaces – such as parking spots – into temporary public parks. (PARK)ing Day occurs once a once a year for one whole day, and it is a global movement. It was originally started…
Mobile Bike Businesses
I was inspired to learn more about mobile bike businesses after reading two recent posts on BikePortland.org about a mobile coffee shop and a mobile beer and pizza pub. (Header image found here). So what exactly is a mobile bike business? It seems to me that a mobile bike business has a different kind of…
More on Bike Parking
I’ve been inspired to think about bicycle parking lately in part because of the new bicycle parking facility in my home-state of Arizona, in part because school is back in session, which means there is a huge influx of new riders by the university and crowded bike parking, and in part because it isn’t something…