Cycle and Style

  When Your Other Car is a Bike There are many reasons to use a bike instead of a car for transportation and being gentle on the environment is just one of them. For those who love to multi-task, cycling is one way to stay healthy and fit while doing something you already have to [...]

  The last decade saw some big changes in cycling in technology, culture, infrastructure, and yes, even fashion. Many headlines in both the USA and the UK referred to a boom in women’s cycling. Yes, things have changed for women’s cycling in the past few decades: it was not until 1984 that the Olympics even had [...]

We all ride.  Now we can ride as one. Millions of Americans ride bicycles. We ride road and mountain bikes and we use bikes for transportation or for casual rides.  Riding bikes is less expensive than driving, it helps with our physical fitness, it reduces air pollution and helps us to connect with our communities. There are a lot [...]

The perfect going-to-college-gift might be a bicycle. After all, a bike’s transportations costs are just as easy on the starving student budget as they are on the planet.   More bikes and fewer cars on campus equal less noise and exhaust fumes. Colleges and universities are taking note of the advantages with bike-commuting rather than car-commuting [...]

Mike Wallenfels, the new president and CEO of Timbuk2 Designs supplements his training mileage with a daily bike commute from Marin County to San Francisco and back. He takes a ferry part of the way and rides the rest; it is 38 miles door-to door. Mike has commuted by bicycle for many years and has [...]

May is National Bike Month and many cities have a Bike to Work Week or even promote it for a month. With its usually fair and moderate weather in many places in the country, it is a good time for many people to start using their bicycle to commute to work. Commuting to work is [...]