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Yearly Archives: 2010

7 Tips to Extend Your Bike Riding Season

Here in the northeast the mornings are starting to get frosty but the days are still comfortable, the foliage is beautiful and there is plenty of great riding to do. If the climate is getting cooler where you live, don’t let the temperatures keep you from enjoying your bike as late into the season as [...]
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How Far Can Two Folding Bikes Go in One Day?

This is a guest post from Oliver Letz who packed more into a single day with 2 Montague X70′s than most people pack into a week!  Have a story you’d like to share with Montague blog readers about your bike adventures. E-mail us at marketing@montaguebikes.com. If we use your story we’ll send you some cool [...]
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What’s In The Box?

What can a box tell you about a bike company? In Montague’s case, the box can tell you a great deal. What goes into our bike boxes may surprise you. It’s not just a folding bike. Not only do we obsess over the details of the design and ride quality of the bike in the [...]
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Ride Softly and Carry A Big Stick

At Montague we love to get people on bikes and everyone on the Montague team is passionate about bikes in some way shape or form. Today’s post is from one of Montague’s newest team members who is kind enough to share a bike experience that many aren’t familiar with but sounds like a fun time! [...]
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Breaking News by the Wall Street Journal: Folding Bikes Are Cool!

It’s been a very busy beginning to the week here at Montague. This past weekend the Wall Street Journal published an article covering folding bikes, including the Montague Crosstown, and how they have entered the mainstream and become “cool”. Of course, readers of this blog have known for a long time how cool folding bikes [...]
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Interbike 2010 and A Police Escort

I’ll get to the police escort in a minute, but first some other show highlights. Interbike 2010 turned out to be a very successful trade show for Montague Bikes.  Simliar to Eurobike, we received an outstanding reception to our new bikes from both dealers and the press. You can expect to see new dealers begin [...]
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Interbike 2010 Day 1

There was plenty of activity at the Montague Interbike Booth on day 1 from both the press and new dealers. Below are a few of the photos we took of the action.
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Electric bikes 101

We recently returned from Eurobike, the largest bike industry trade show in the world, and one of the primary themes that dominated the show was E-bikes. What Are E-Bikes Put simply, e-bikes are bicycles assisted by an electric motor, most of which travel at a speeds up to 20 MPH. In many cases they are [...]
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Eurobike 2010 Wrap Up

Eurobike Highlights Despite the 12+ hour days, 7 hour plane ride to Germany and mountain of e-mail to respond to upon getting home, having the opportunity to go to Eurobike, the largest bicycle industry trade show in the world, was more than worth it. It’s nearly impossible to describe the event in one blog post [...]
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