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3 Reasons to go with a Full Size Folding Bike

1. Unlike some small-wheeled folding bikes, you can ride a folding bike with full-size wheels almost anywhere… 2. Full-size folding bikes are still fully portable. 3. You don’t compromise ride quality, speed, comfort or dignity…
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Visiting Marrakech: Folding Bikes in the City

Mo-Rockin with a Montague Folding Bike With a Montague folding bike, you can ride anywhere there’s a road – or if you’ve got one of our full-size folding mountain bikes, you can ride even if there’s no road at all. You can take yourself wherever you’d like to go, and there are a lot of [...]
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On the Road with Montague Folding Bikes

Montague folding bikes not only ride well, they’re also easy to fold and easy to store. You can fit a folded Montague in even the smallest spaces – a cramped apartment, a car trunk or even… a tour bus? Because of this, Montague folding bikes are really popular, not only with city dwellers and commuters, [...]
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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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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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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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From Bikes to Flights

One of the many wonderful features of Montague folding bicycles is that they fold up and can fit easily on public transportation, in the trunk of a car, or even on a plane. In fact, if you’re traveling by plane, whether it’s a commercial airliner or small single engine Cessna, a Montague folding bike is [...]
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Folding Bikes Around The World

Montague customers continually amaze me with the stories they so graciously share with us. We hear from people all over the world who use their Montague bikes on all kinds of adventures. Here are just a few of the adventures we’ve heard about recently. Bob Bob bought his Montague SwissBike LX that he could keep [...]
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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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