Cycle and Style

“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 were as [...]

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 truly influenced [...]

The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom. The realization that this is what the child will always need, can hit hard.” –Sloan Wilson

By Tara R. McKee

When I was young, my sister and I [...]

As a feature of Cycle & Style magazine, we periodically will review bicycles, accessories, or types of biking. In this case, one of our favorite local bike shops, Bingham Cyclery introduced us to the Co-Motion tandem. The owner of the store had mentioned how much fun he had riding it with his 6-year old son [...]