Cycle and Style

Strider Bikes are running bikes designed for children, ages 1-5 and have several advantages over tricycles and bikes with training wheels in teaching the balance and coordination skills necessary to making a smooth and speedy transition to a two-wheeled bicycle when the time comes. As Strider Bike inventor Ryan McFarland notes if a child can [...]

How many of us have wonderful memories of that special childhood relationship with our bicycles? We remember with affection bikes with banana seats, white baskets with plastic flowers, tassels off the handlebar, a bell with a nice loud tone and the feeling of freedom we felt as we rode down the street with friends or [...]

“It’s so different from all the other sports I’ve tried. You can go longer and faster. I just love biking!” It was one of those serendipitous moments the day that Kathy and her 12-year old daughter Nicole spotted a postcard advertising a  women’s ride at their local bike shop. The ride was the Venus De [...]

Kids and their bicycles should go together like peanut butter and jelly, like popsicles and summer afternoons.  Do you remember your childhood bicycle and the places it took you? It may not be that simple for our children as it was for us. Too many of them are more attracted to playing computer games than [...]

By Tara R. McKee “The couple that exercises together stays together.” (The Schofield mantra) For Jon and Leslie Schofield, their romance began on bicycles. “Our first date was a mountain bike ride,” Leslie remembers. It was on the mountain trails of Robert Redford’s Sundance Resort in Utah. The active life was part of who they [...]

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. –James Baldwin Gloria and her daughter Rachel enjoy spending time together on their bicyles. Teenagers may tune us out now and then, and two-year olds may willfully ignore our direct orders, but never doubt they are [...]