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World Champion Cyclist talks with the Folding Bikes Blog

While we here at Montague and the Folding Bikes Blog concentrate on certain aspects of cycling more than others, we still like to take the occasional foray into areas we don’t focus on as much. We do a lot of commuting and recreational cycling, but we also harbor an avid interest in bike racing. Recently, [...]
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Can Better Infrastructure put us on the Path to a New Cycle?

As we’ve been discussing recently, it’s not easy to be a cyclist on the streets of an American city – cars and bikes are too often competing for the same space, bikes are travelling on roads that have not been designed with them in mind (e.g. bike lanes that place riders squarely in the dreaded [...]
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No Car Diet? Let’s Try It!

ZipCar wants it both ways. On the one hand, they’re trying to get people on board with a Low Car Diet by encouraging them to walk, bike, take public transportation, or rent a ZipCar, instead of using their personal vehicles. It’s a great idea, because it helps people realize that they don’t need to drive [...]
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The Bard and the Bike: A Plea for Tolerance

I don’t know what it’s like in the rest of the world these days, but in Boston, at least, it seems that drivers are becoming angrier. I am an experienced, conscientious, law-abiding cyclist, but recently, it is with alarming frequency that drivers have yelled at me to “Get out of the road” (which, by the [...]
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Octagon Featured on BikeSnobNYC

If you are a regular visitor to this blog, you probably know that in addition to a complete line of full-size folding bikes, Montague also designs and manufactures bicycle components, with an eye to make riding easier, safer, and more comfortable. To this end, Montague recently introduced the Octagon – a component that lets you [...]
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International Walk or Bike to School Day

There are a lot of events and specialty days and months dedicated to getting people on their bikes. Back in May, we talked about Bike-to-Work Day/Week/Month, and just a couple of weeks ago, International Car-Free Day/Week. But today is International Walk/Bike to School Day, which is actually part of a larger movement (pun intended) to [...]
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Montague Crosstown featured at Interbike Fashion Show

A couple of weeks ago, we mentioned that the Montague Crosstown folding bike would be featured in a fashion show put on by Momentum Magazine during Interbike – and we captured the moment on film. At the show, each bike rode the runway against the backdrop of a city, to highlight different trends in cycling [...]
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Interbike is Upon Us!

Just when you thought there weren’t enough exciting things to do in Las Vegas, along comes interbike – the largest bicycle trade show in North America. Interbike brings folks together from every corner of the cycling industry – you get everything from bikes to clothing, panniers to components – if it’s about bikes, it’s at [...]
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Use a Folding Bike to Combat Sedentariness

A recent study conducted by MSN found Lexington KY to be the most sedentary city in the U.S. They reached this conclusion by comparing how many hours of physical activity people reported, how much cable TV they watched, how many video games they purchased, as well as the deaths caused by deep vein thrombosis, which [...]
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MTB Trail Maintenance Basics

Mountain biking is a great way to enjoy the outdoors. If you’ve got the bike and the skillz, nothing beats a sunny afternoon on the X70 hammering down single track, or working your way through a rock garden. Even if you’re just out cruising on the X50 on something a little more tame – say [...]
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