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in bicycle in your favorite search engine and youll
get more bicycle links than you can begin to follow. To help, heres
a list of links I think youll find interesting and useful. And
here is my list of commercial links.![]() A2B A fun British site by the people who put out the ’zine A2B, which covers folding and electric bicycles. Return to index Adventure Cycling The organization formerly known as Bikecentennial (it was named after the mass transcontinental ride that took place in the summer of 1976 to celebrate the nation’s bicentennial). Theyre all about touring and helping tourists and they produce and sell the best bike touring route maps available. Plus, if you become a member, you’ll receive one of the better cycling magazines. Return to index Airnimal Travel Bicycles Using 24-inch wheels, which are larger than what’s typically used on truly portable travel bicycles (not the full-size versions, which require larger luggage), Airnimal makes road, touring and off-road machines that will wow you. Read my review. Return to index Alex Moulton Bicycles Alex Moulton is a British engineer who decided in the 1950s to reinvent the bicycle and has spent five decades doing just that. His marvelous machines feature front and rear suspension, a frame that fits all size riders, amazing carrying capacity, supreme portability, and a ride matched by few other machines. Heres a story about my visit to the Moulton factory in April of 1998. Return to index ![]() 1969 Moulton Speed Click photo to enlarge Ann Arbor/Saline Classic Bicycle Swap Meet This site covers one of the best classic bicycle swap meets in America. I’ve never been lucky enough to attend but collectors I know put it on the top of their lists. You can find out all about the event and even see photos of best-of-show winners on this site. Return to index Back In The World The site of Rick Galezowski and Maggie Bennedsen, who when they aren’t working in their Toronto studio are riding their bicycles around the world and sharing their adventures online. Inspirational words and pictures. Return to index Robert Beckman Designs Sweet touring bicycles and equipment. Return to index Bicycle Museum of America Located in New Bremen, Ohio, the museum displays lots of antique and classic bicycles to see. Many of these bikes used to be diplayed at The Bicycle Museum of America (now closed), in Chicago and were the subject of my Wayback Machines column in Bicycling Magazine. I visited the museum several times, got to know the curator Jim Hurd quite well and even had a chance to ride a few of these awesome oldies. I was also at the record-setting auction in Chicago on April 6, 1997 when many of these bikes were purchased. Can you believe a 1968 Schwinn Sting-Ray Orange Krate fetched $16,100?! Return to index Impressions from Bicycle Travels On this engaging site, which features slideshows of exotic tours around the globe, you can tour the world from the comfort of your office chair and get motivated to pack up and pedal into the horizon as the authors have. Return to index Bike and the Like Reasonably priced and supported tours in U.S. and Europe — each personally hosted by Roger and Suzie Knable. Return to index Bike Cal (Bicycling in Northern California) Great information about this cycling paradise. Return to index Bike Cult This thoroughly entertaining site is related to the awesome book, Bike Cult by David Perry. Don’t miss their fantastic chainring collection! For more nifty rings, check out the amazing chainring tattoo project. Return to index Bike Reader Thoroughly engaging cycling stories on all topics with equally satisfying photos and illustrations. Return to index Brompton If everyone had a Brommyand used itthe world would be a better place (because car use would decline). These neat bikes collapse in seconds into a tiny bundle so you can stash them anywhere and easily combine modes of transportation. I love mine. Return to index ![]() Folds in ten seconds! Fits in a grocery cart! Rides like a dream! Bruce Gordon Cycles Nice touring bicycles (and other designs) by someone whos done his homework. Return to index Gary Brustin, the Bicyclists Lawyer Heres hoping that you never get injured while riding. But, if the worst happens, you may need a good lawyer in your corner. Give Gary a call. Hes a great guy, a cyclist, and he knows his stuff (hes probably represented more riders than any other bicycling lawyer). Return to index Car Busters Tired of cars? Youll enjoy this Czech site that promotes alternatives to car dependency. Return to index ![]() ![]() Bike Fridaying around Amsterdam in 1995 Click photo to enlarge Gravy Wheels The site of pro mechanic, Steve (Gravy) Gravenites, who is a great guy and a race wrench extraordinaire. Need some sweet wheels or a race rig built? Give your business to Gravy and get it done right. Something funny happened when I interviewed Gravy for a story. Return to index Tony Hadland Cycle History & Technology Tony Hadland is a cycling technical writer who has written amazing books on Sturmey Archer, Alex Moulton bicycles and folding bikes. You can purchase his books on his site and also read a variety of thoroughly researched technical papers. Return to index The Original Hetchins Website This wonderful site celebrates the amazing craftsmanship of the Hetchins family who built lugged-steel frames in England from 1934 until about 1990. Lugs are steel sleeves that fit over intersections to help join the frame tubes. Hetchins are famous for fantastic painstakingly hand-cut lugs and curly stays and this website has great examples with plenty of information for bike-history buffs and restorers. A word of warning: once you get bitten by the lug bug, you may never be satisfied with your Plane-Jane welded-aluminum frame again! Return to index ![]() René Herse Bicycles While working at West Hill Shop in Putney, Vermont, I was lucky enough to have two customers with René Herse bicycles who brought them to me for repair and maintenance. This site celebrates these magnificent and now almost priceless rolling masterpieces, which were painstakingly handcrafted and ingeniously designed and engineered by one of the greatest bike builders ever. Return to index International Human Powered Vehicle Association (IHPVA) This international club is involved in everything from land speed records on full-streamlined bicycles to bikes that fly. Here, anything is possible. Return to index Henry James Bicycles Henry James has been making investment-cast bicycle lugs for decades and there isn’t a better way to ensure a quality frame build. This site showcases the framebuilding products the company sells and also offers a wealth of information about framebuilding from someone who obviously loves builders and bicycles. Return to index Charlie Kelly’s Fat Tire Flyer online magazine I met Charlie when we worked together for Bicycling and Mountain Bike Magazines. He was one of mountain biking’s pioneers and published the original, and super-cool mountain bike magazine Fat Tire Flyer. Return to index League of American Bicyclists The folks fighting to keep Americas roads open for cycling. Joining them helps ensure the future of cycling. Return to index ![]() Taliahs Spaceracer On Green Pacenti
Cycle Designs ![]() A look back at the golden age of cycling Raymond Parker's VeloWeb Raymond Parkers VeloWeb is a lot like my website, chockfull of great bicycle stories, photos, information and fun. Return to index Pedaling dot com A growing ride resource where you select your area and the type of ride you wish to take and a free route map is provided. You can also submit your favorite rides. Please do! Return to index Dursley Pedersen Bicycles In 1893, Danish inventor Mikael Pedersen invented a remarkable bicycle that you can still purchase today. Constructed of small-diameter triangulated tubes, the most striking feature on this amazing machine is a fully suspended seat and an incredibly comfortable upright cycling position that makes the miles glide by. Return to index Pro Mechanics If youre interested in becoming a professional race bicycle mechanic, youll find some solid information here on entering this exciting and challenging field. For a feel of what the jobs like, read my story Wrenching At The Worlds. Return to index Rivendell A catalog specializing in hard-to-find high-quality cycling equipment including hand-built frames. Return to index Road Bike Rider This is the website of Ed Pavelka and Fred Matheny (see photo below), two accomplished cyclists/authors/editors I had the privilege of working with at Bicycling Magazine. Theyve written many great books about cycling, share the Over-50 RAAM World Record, have penned hundreds of articles about cycling for all the major magazines and are two of the nicest and most knowledgeable guys you could ever meet. If youre getting into road biking, youll find all the information you need here. Return to index ![]() Pete Penseyres, RAAM world-record holders Richard Sachs Cycles Richard is the renown craftsman who built my first custom frame. His racing frames handle wonderfully, but are so beautiful you may be tempted to save yours for posterity. Return to index Rock Lobster Cycles I worked with Paul Sadoff at the Bicycle Center in Santa Cruz, California in 1980. He was a nice guy then and hes still a nice guy. Hes a gifted cyclist, mechanic and framebuilder who has built quite a reputation for his Rock Lobster frames, which many Santa Cruzans swear by. I especially appreciate his frame-repair skills. Hes saved many classics for me and my friends over the years. Paul also plays a mean guitar. Return to index Rydjor Bike Shop Bike Collection Rydjor Bike Shop is in Minnesota yet they’ve put their splendid collection of bicycles online for everyone to enjoy. It includes early antiques right up to vintage 10-speeds. It’s very nicely done with main images, detail shots and informative descriptions. Well worth a visit! Be sure to click on the title of each bike because this opens high-resolution images where you can see even more of the amazing details. Return to index Sellwood Cycle Poster Gallery (see examples below!) This shop has done us a wonderful favor by scanning and putting on its site the super posters from the out-of-print book 100 Years of Bicycle Posters, by Jack Rennert. This large-format book (11 x 16 inches) was published in 1973 and routinely fetches $75 to $100 now on eBay. So, its quite nice of Sellwood to display the posters online for the world to see. Return to index
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