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Rideable Art: Nirve Bikes

Rideable Art: Nirve Bikes

Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world. ~Grant Petersen There is something about beautifully detailed cruisers that inspires one to ride to the market, to the park or to nowhere in particular at all. Beth loved photographing even the tiny details on these Nirve cruisers and we thought our [...]

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Vote in the Campus Cruiser Contest

Vote in the Campus Cruiser Contest

It was very difficult narrowing our entrants down to just a final few. So we have SEVEN finalists and they are all from different colleges in different states. Vote for your favorite and help choose the final winner of the beautiful Nirve Starliner that one lucky college student can take with her to college! The [...]

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Real Food for the Long Ride

Real Food for the Long Ride

A cyclist’s endurance is limited by one thing: the gradual depletion of stored glycogen. Over the course of a long ride, the glycogen levels decline and the body begins to depend more on blood glucose for fuel. If you keep riding on “empty” you will become lightheaded, dizzy and fatigued and you will “bonk.” The [...]

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Kathryn Bertine: As Good as Gold

Kathryn Bertine: As Good as Gold

  Kathryn Bertine was living her dream as a professional triathlete and a writer, yet also living the reality of working less-pleasant part-time jobs to survive. After she broke off her engagement and moved from Colorado to New York, with only $200 in her checking account, it seemed her athletic dreams would wither and die. [...]

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The Bicycle Muse’s Top Tips: How to carry your stuff in style

The Bicycle Muse’s Top Tips: How to carry your stuff in style

Like many of us, I came back to cycling as an adult. I had cycled as a child but somewhere into my teenage years it was no longer relevant or cool. However living in London aged 26, it suddenly seemed like a really good idea again. My reasons for cycling were very different though. As [...]

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Win a Cool Cruiser & Ride to Campus!

Win a Cool Cruiser & Ride to Campus!

Nirve and Cycle & Style would like to encourage more college or students to use their bicycles to commute to and around their college campuses. What better way to do so than to offer a brand new Nirve Starliner bicycle to a deserving college student? The Nirve Starliner will be a campus-standout in teal with [...]

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