It’s been a fun year here at Commute by Bike. It kicked off with the addition of two new editors, Fritz and Warren T, who added a lot of knowledge and insight to the writing here. Throughout the year we did our best to help commuters, both new and seasoned, use their bike for transportation [...]
Quality Bicycle Supplies (who also owns Salsa, Surly and Dimension/Problem Solvers) showed off their new brand today. Civia Cycles are incredibly high end commuter bikes spec’d and priced higher than anything else I’ve seen on the market. They are launching with four builds available of the Hyland… Rohloff, Alfine, Derailer and Singlespeed. Each Hyland comes [...]
It’s pretty obvious that the bike industry is making a big push to utilitarian bikes. To carry everything around, Surly has their Big Dummy complete with Xtracycle goodies. And now the 2008 Kona UTE is sporting similar characteristics. Then you have plenty that are low maintenance singlespeed and fixed gear bikes like the Kona Paddywagon [...]
