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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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Folding Bikes to the Rescue

With our current frame design having been originally developed for the US military, our bikes have a long history of service. They’re work horses that don’t mind putting in the long hours. And while the Paratrooper is doing government work, our Swissbike is helping out one private ambulance company in the UK. Andrew Bevan, a medic [...]
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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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Following the Pros with your Montague Folding Bike: Tour of Flanders

New Spring/Summer Folding Bike Blog Series This is the first of a series of posts where we feature a prominent bike race and the city/region where it is held. Each of these posts will consist of 2 main parts: a brief introduction to the race, its history, and any interesting developments, and an overview of [...]
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I Brake for Folding Bikes

We all love the feeling of the breeze in our hair as we cruise along on our favorite bike route and we all love the excitement that comes from bombing down that giant hill on the way home. Let’s be honest, going fast on a bicycle is FUN. However, if there’s one thing we’re thankful [...]
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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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Winter Bike Maintenance Tips: Fold in the Cold (and Wet, and Ice…)

There are a lot of opinions about what constitutes the perfect winter bike. And depending on where you live and how harsh or mild the winter is that year, you might find that you need extra equipment or that you can get by on what you ride in the warmer months. But regardless of the [...]
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Octagon – Tool Free Handlebar Height Adjustment Now Available

For more than 20 years Montague has been dedicated to making cycling more accessible by creating folding bikes that performed as well or better than a non-folding bike and could also be transported easily to give the rider maximum flexibility. That drive has led to several innovations including our Folding Integrated Technology, the CLIX quick [...]
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