FOLDING BIKES BLOG
Stories, tutorials, and advice from the Montague Bikes team.
Folding Bikes on the Radio
We've mentioned this once or twice already, this past summer Montague Bikes partnered with Prime, Inc. to help transform driver health. This has been covered in trucking industry publications and most recently on the radio! You can listen to last Thursday night's...
Healthy Changes
The Familiar Story Say you're on a road trip, your stomach starts to grumble. You keep driving for a bit. Maybe the car needs gas, maybe your friends or, let's say the kids in the back start saying they're hungry too. The road sign, or the GPS, or the app on your...
Bikes Thrive Where Least Expected
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...
Bike Theft: Fold It Up. Take It Inside.
Not many, if any of us - are lucky enough to receive a written apology from the thief if someone steals our bike. This along with getting the bike back happened for one very fortunate man in Oregon. For most of us, if our bike is stolen it is sadly a one way street....
Tour de Somerville: Edge of the City Tour
In the town next door to Montague HQ there is a vibrant bicycle group, the Somerville Bicycle Committee. Each year for the past 20 years they have hosted the Tour de Somerville, this year's theme was the "Edge of the City Tour" which was just that - a group bicycle...
Traffic and Helmet Hair
Coming home last week I saw a neighbor with a bandaged wrist and a neck brace. When asked what had occurred he said that he had been struck by a car while he was biking home on his new bike that night. The helmet saved his life he said. (And he was proud to say his...
Bicycles Changing Lives
On the Radio Next week Montague Bikes will be on the radio. To be specific we'll be guests on The Extreme Truckers Show, along with Siphiwe Baleka, Driver Fitness Coach for Prime, Inc and founder of Fitness Trucking. Mr. Baleka has been at the vanguard of...
Riding the Open Road
A Boston Globe reviewer, Ty Burr - recently weighed in on what it is to be an urban cyclist, and why he has been bike commuting for the past 10 years. He recounts daily cycling commutes from the suburbs where he lives into the heart of Boston. From pot-hole...
Not Just A Sport: Cycling as Transit
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...
Folding Adventure: Journey to Maine
A new Montague owner in Maine sent in this recent trip taken with their new Paratroopers! "My husband and I live on a remote island off the coast of Maine and like to explore the coast in our small lobster boat. We saw a description of the Montague bikes in an issue...
Bike Sales Surpass Car Sales in Italy
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...
Helmets are as helmets do?
Happenings with Helmets An article was posted in the New York Times by Elisabeth Rosenthal last week about helmet usage. In the article she relays a recent experience of partaking in the bike sharing program of Paris, France and how seemingly no rider utilizes a...
Putting a New Spin on Advocacy
Across the world where there are bicycles, there are advocacy groups. At this year's Eurobike industry leaders teamed up with the European Cyclists' Federation, on an international level within the EU to expand cycling support and infrastructure. Within the United...
The Sense and Cents of Cycling
The League of American Cyclists recently released a follow up report to the ground breaking 2009 report, The Economic Benefits of Bicycle Infrastructure Investments. The initial report took data from across the nation, from rural and urban environments, different...
Mission Report: InterBike 2012
Tales from Vegas live on in the imagination long after they have passed. Our crew has returned from InterBike 2012 and the desert. Montague HQ Mission report from the show: Before the doors opened, Montague Folding Bikes booth at the ready: Once the Flood Gates...
History Lesson
Imajinsha, or Imajin Co. - a Japanese publisher of children's and educational books recently put the final touches on a new quiz book, as part of their educational book series. One of the sections features bicycles, and you may recognize one of the shots in...
Mission Report: Hub on Wheels
Yesterday, in the fair city of Boston was the 8th annual Hub on Wheels ride. Participants from as far away as Colorado and even London came to ride the streets of Boston. This is not a race - it is a celebration of cycling in Boston, and what a city that embraces...
Changing Lanes
Earlier this week we spoke briefly about the recent tragic deaths of Boston area cyclists in traffic accidents. A great deal of conversation has been doing on as to the why... Cyclists must speak up. Boston Magazine associate editor Casey Lyons posted a blog entry on...
