FOLDING BIKES BLOG
Stories, tutorials, and advice from the Montague Bikes team.The 12 Days of Cycling
It’s that time of year. Rather than providing an assortment of products that you might purchase for yourself or a loved one (although we always do recommend a folding bike and accessories…heck, we’ve even got t-shirts!), please enjoy this parody on everybody’s...
Winter Bicycle Storage
One of the great things about Montague folding bikes is that they can handle all kinds of conditions – even winter weather. Although it's been a pretty mild winter in New England so far this year, parts of the Midwest have already received their first ice and snow. If...
Great Britain and Great Transportation
Just last week, we told you about the 2 Mile Challenge. CLIF Bar is trying to encourage people to ride more, especially for shorter trips, by providing a way for participants to track their mileage, and then converting the mileage to the amount of pollutants that were...
Ride More, Drive Less: The 2 Mile Challenge
Last week, we looked at a report from The Wall Street Journal that suggested a link between exposure to fuel emissions and neurological disorders. While driving is sometimes necessary, we know it’s not great for our health: as part of a sedentary lifestyle, it can...
Bike Lock vs. Tree
In many cities, there are local ordinances that prohibit using trees as bike racks. Several years ago, I was running some errands, and as there weren’t any official bike racks on the block, I locked to a small tree, and ran into a store for maybe 10 minutes. By the...
Ease Traffic Congestion, Ease Your Mind: Ride a Bike
I recently read an article in The Wall Street Journal titled “The Hidden Toll of Traffic Jams”, which examined the effects of prolonged exposure to vehicle emissions on the brain. While it’s too early to draw any direct connections between car exhaust neurological...
A Trip to the Polling Station with my Folding Bike
Today is voting day (municipal elections), and dutiful citizen that I am, I left for work 15 minutes early so that I could hit my polling station on the way in and still arrive on time. Since I ride my bike to work, I also rode to the polling station. But after I got...
On the Road Again – with Montague Folding Bikes
Last month, we did a post about people who take our folding bikes on the road with them – literally. We’re not talking about commuters who do a park-and-pedal style commute, but about people whose jobs keep them moving from one city to another – truckers, musicians,...
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...
Happy Hallowe’en! Trick or Treat with your Bicycle
Today is Hallowe’en, perhaps my favourite holiday in the entire calendar year – a reason to wear a costume *AND* eat lots of candy? Yes please! And in celebration, I thought we could look at ways to combine one of my favourite holidays with one of my favourite things:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
