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MN’s Pro Bike Race Confirmed For June
After months of searching for new sponsors to help fund the North Star Bicycle Festival, the Event’s board voted to go ahead with the five-day pro bike race and festival for 2015. Formerly called the Nature Valley Grand Prix, the 16-year old race was in jeopardy after Nature Valley, a division of General Mills, pulled…
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Soon, an eco-bike made entirely of cardboard
Inspired by water-cooler talk about a cardboard canoe, inventor and craftsman Izhar Gafni became obsessed with the idea of a cardboard bicycle. Despite a number of Gafni’s engineering buddies telling him it couldn’t be done, his enthusiasm and technical/design prowess in the field of mechanical and bio-medical engineering made it a challenge. Even though cardboard…
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Folding Bike Claims To Be Smaller Than Any Other
The whole idea behind folding bikes is that they can be made very small and unobtrusive for transit and storage. It would follow, therefore, that the smaller they can be folded down, the better. Well, Toronto’s Peter Boutakis claims that his company’s Helix bike can fold smaller than any other. It’s also got a snazzy…
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Top Tips for Traveling On Bikes With Kids
If you are a cycling enthusiast and have started a family, chances are that you will want to share your passion with your children as soon as they are old enough to climb on to the saddle of a bike. More and more families are choosing to opt for cycling vacations and with good reason.…
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A Freaky Fork For Fat Bikes
A couple of years ago, Icelandic startup Lauf unveiled its lightweight Trail Racer leaf-style mountain bike suspension fork. Now, the company is introducing a fat bike version of the fork designed for bikes that definitely don’t need any extra weight.
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Confidence is a Bicycle Safety Tool, Many Forget
Riding with a helmet, lights, reflectors and mirror are all good. However, after tens of thousands of miles without even having a close call with a motor vehicle, I’m no longer buying the assumption that getting hit by a car is an eventual certainty. There are many tools in my safety tool kit and today…
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Tips on buying a touring, or any other bike
There are a few aspects of buying a touring or any other bike of your choice, so utterly basic that they’re often lost in the quagmire of internet-based research. This is particularly the case when browsing websites for advice on features and technical specifications, rather than stopping into your local bike shop – were you…
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Bike Racing, Where Staying Warm Is Most Important
As far as fatbike racing goes, Ben Doom, from Revolution Cycle & Ski, in St Cloud, Minn. is preparing as a first-timer to the 350-mile Iditarod Trail Invitational race in Alaska. A race so tough staying warm is the most important goal to finishing this wilderness course.
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World’s lightest (non-weird) folding bike
Given that the design incorporates hinges and locking mechanisms, folding bikes aren’t necessarily synonymous with light weight. The new Allen Sports’ Ultra X, however, tips the scales at just 18.75 lb (8.5 kg). The carbon fiber commuter may just be the world’s lightest folding bike … or at least, the lightest one that looks relatively…
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An umbrella for your bike
After a wet spring and early summer, in many areas, last year this might be a worthwhile item to look at when getting caught out in the rain. Even the most dedicated bicycle commuter or touring cyclist could be forgiven for taking a look at this umbrella with the possibilities of staying dry. Especially with…
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