Category Archives: Environment

Cycling Poster Contest Sends 5th Grader to Bike Summit

By Montague Bikes | Published: May 22, 2013

Tweet For the last three years, Saris Cycling Group has held a bicycling themed poster contest during National Bike Month. This years contest had over 500 elementary schools from 27 different states participating. Students were challenged to make posters that illustrate the theme, “Bikes Make Life Better”. After more than 2,600 votes were cast from [...]

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FIT Custom: Disc Brake Compatible

By Montague Bikes | Published: March 29, 2013

Tweet Montague frame sets are now in stock, and the FIT Custom has a brand new addition; a carbon fork with disc brake mounts. The next step in the evolution of the road bike is on the horizon: disc brakes. We’ve seen them on mountain bikes for years now, in fact 4 of Montague’s 5 [...]

Also posted in accessories, Commute, Maintenance | Tagged carbon, cyclocross, disc, disc brake, folding bike, folding frames, fork, frame, frames, road bike | 1 Comment

Bikes Not Bombs & Montague

By Montague Bikes | Published: February 25, 2013

Tweet We did our “spring cleaning” at the Montague headquarters a little early this year. In the process of organizing, we gathered up a truckload of bikes, frames, and components to donate to a wonderful organization here in Boston called Bikes Not Bombs. Located in Jamaica Plain, just south of Boston proper, Bikes Not Bombs [...]

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Journey into the Unknown

By Montague Bikes | Published: November 5, 2012

Tweet We’ve been talking about commuting recently, this adventure is a byproduct of bike commuting growing into a greater love of cycling. November Adventure This past weekend I undertook an adventure a long time in the making. Since becoming a more and more enthusiastic cyclist, moving from mostly just commuting to and from work to [...]

Also posted in Adventure, Events, Lifestyle, Recreation, Travel | Tagged 60 mile bike trek, folding bike rides, November adventure, solo bike adventures | 4 Comments

The New Commute: New York After Sandy

By Montague Bikes | Published: November 2, 2012

Tweet In case you’re tuning in from another part of the world, Hurricane Sandy made it’s way up the east coast and threw everything she had against New York and New Jersey at the beginning of this week. We’re seeing the greatest natural disaster New York has faced in generations, maybe ever. And out of [...]

Also posted in Activism, Commute, Lifestyle | Tagged biking, flooded subways, flooding, hurricane Sandy, new york, walking | 1 Comment

City Cycling Ways

By Montague Bikes | Published: October 25, 2012

Tweet Bikenomics? New York City’s seeing some changes, quantifiable ones too, and they’re coming from bicycling. The Wall Street Journal recently reported on the good sense of cycling and economics. The report found that in places where New York City had implemented bike lanes, complete streets, and traffic calming that local businesses were thriving. (The data did [...]

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Folding Bike Commute

By Montague Bikes | Published: October 24, 2012

Tweet Do you ever bike to work? Do you drive part way and then pedal? (What we call Park and Pedal.) Do you ride part way and then take the train? How is your folding bike commute? Unfold and ride to work, then fold up and keep it under the desk during the workday [...]

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Bikes Thrive Where Least Expected

By Montague Bikes | Published: October 17, 2012

Tweet Maybe you’ve heard about the bike lanes in New York, bike shares taking off across the world, and the other cycling headlines. “Sure, that’s great for them – all this bicycle hullabaloo But that’s not happening where I live,” you might think. But prepare to be pleasantly surprised; bikes are making a difference in places [...]

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Not Just A Sport: Cycling as Transit

By Montague Bikes | Published: October 5, 2012

Tweet Changes in the Mediterranean In a followup to a report by the BBC earlier this week on bicycle sales in Italy surpassing auto sales, Martha White of TIME tuned in with some further reaching reports from other parts of the world. TIME reports that in parts of Europe where the economic crisis has hit most severely [...]

Also posted in Activism, Commute | Tagged activism, bike safety, economics, European bike trends, Greece, Italy, UK | 2 Comments

Bike Sales Surpass Car Sales in Italy

By Montague Bikes | Published: October 3, 2012

Tweet The BBC recently reported that for the first time in decades bicycle sales surpassed automobile sales in Italy. The year 2011 saw around 1.75 million bicycles sold in Italy, over 2,000 more than the number of cars registered. While Italy has long had a strong connection with cycling, from the Giro d’Italia (Tour of [...]

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