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Category Archives: Recreation

Fun Things to do with your Folding Bike

Here at Montague we tend to focus on how great our folding bikes are for commuting – since they’re so easy to put in the trunk of your car or take on the train, they make bike commuting a viable option, even if you live too far from work to ride your bike the whole [...]
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Custom Folding Bikes

One of the best things about Montague folding bikes is that they all use industry standard components. What’s so great about that? If you ever need a quick tune up or a part replaced, your local bike shop (or even you) can do it no problem. And when industry standard components fit right on your [...]
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Following the Pros with Your Folding Bike: Tour de Romandie

The Race: Tour of Romandie This week, April 26th-May 1st, is the Tour de Romandie. Romandie is the primarily French-speaking western part of Switzerland. The Tour de Romandie is different from the races we’ve been to so far, because it takes place over multiple days. Instead of taking place on a single day, the Tour [...]
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Following the Pros with your Folding Bike: Liège-Bastogne-Liège

The Race: Liège-Bastogne-Liège This Sunday, April 24th, will be the 97th edition of Liège-Bastogne-Liège. This race is an out-and-back course, 161 miles total: the first leg, from Liège to Bastogne is approximately 65 miles, and the return leg is approximately 96 miles, with most of the long, steep climbs coming in the final 60 miles [...]
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Following the Pros with Your Folding Bike: Paris-Roubaix

The Race: Paris-Roubaix This Sunday April 10 will be the 109th edition of another one of the 5 monuments of cycling’s race calendar: Paris-Roubaix. The race, first held in 1896, now starts north of Paris in the town of Compiègne. The race finishes with a ½ mile lap around the velodrome in Roubaix. In fact, [...]
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People For Bikes

Whether you ride for pleasure or for fitness, to commute or to compete you can certainly agree that bicycling is not only good for you but it’s good for the community and its good for the environment. We’ve been seeing more and more people on bikes in recent years but as our community of cyclists grows, [...]
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Folding Bikes: Does Size Matter?

Among the many choices you need to make when selecting the right bike for you, one of the more important decisions is size. This doesn’t mean just frame size, but also the size of the wheels. You may not be familiar with the different sizes of wheels available on road bikes, mountain bikes, folding bikes, [...]
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A Valentine’s Day Poem for the Folding Bicycle

I love the folding bicycles That are made by Montague, They’re so easy to just fold and go That you might want one too. I love my bike’s performance And I love that it is portable, And compared to similar non-folding bikes, It’s so light and so affordable. But my bike can fold up too, [...]
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Six Tips For Taking Your Riding Inside

As we talked about in the last post, there are some people who ride outdoors all year long…and then there are the rest of us. If you want to keep riding once winter sets in, then you either need to move somewhere with warmer weather or ride inside. Choose Your Ride – If you choose [...]
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Epic Bike Rides, For A Cause

Does cycling make you more generous, or do generous people just eventually find their way to cycling? Maybe it’s a little of each but in my experience most cyclists at some point during their cycling lifetime will participate in some type of charity ride.  There are rides for young kids that only go 1 or [...]
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