Posts Tagged ‘dutch bicycle’

This article is is the final part of a series I’ve been writing about my experience taking a two week bicycle frame building class in December from master framebuilder, Doug Fattic. Two weeks somehow became three and a half months. Back in December, I spent two weeks learning the trade of framebuilding from Doug Fattic [...]

Late last week, the blog Bicycle Design released the finalists for its competition to design a new commuter bike for the masses. The winner of this contest will win a Cannondale Bad Boy Disc. It’s a pretty cool idea to see what the general cycling populace would come up with it they could design a [...]

Previous sections of my long-term review of an Azor Secret Service are here: Delivery Notes and First Impressions Quick Update In the few months I have had it so far, I have traveled roughly 1200 miles now on my Azor Secret Service bicycle. I’m past due for an update, and I do have a few [...]

I’ve been looking around at the 2009 bicycle models this week and I’m happy that many more “commuter style” bicycles are being made, but almost all of them are just sort of half-done versions of what I would consider a true utility bicycle – see the Trek Allant as an example. They have some of [...]

Thank you to another AustinBikeBlog reader for alerting me to the existence of this week’s nominee for our Dumbest Product of the Week. This week’s winner once again attempts to solve a legitimate problem, being seen at night, but takes a wrong turn somewhere along the way and ends up at a dead end with [...]

Thoughts on Interbike and transportation cycling The granddaddy North American bike industry trade show, Interbike, kicked off this week, and aside from the the show girls in mini skirts and midriffs, it’s always fun to see new product roll outs and trends in the bike industry. In the past, there has been relatively little in [...]

This article is part of our AustinBikeBlog becomes PortlandBikeBlog series I’m writing on my recent trip to Portland and my exposure to its bike culture. Look for additional articles later this week. While staying in Portland, I decided I needed to make a pilgrimage to Clever Cycles, one of the bike stores leading the move [...]

Giant wins EuroBike Gold Medal for Urban Bike Design Eurobike, one of the bike industry trade shows, was this last weekend and with it, the bike industry rolled out more of the latest, greatest hits in high performance carbon fiber items. While thus far, carbon bike on utility bikes has been limited to Bontrager’s questionable [...]

The initial review of the Azor Secret Service, my new daily commuter and car replacement, is here. It’s been a bit over two weeks since I started riding my Azor Secret Service dutch bicycle, and I wanted to just provide a quick update on how things have been, the good and the bad.

My Experience: One week of using the DToplight Senso for commuting, including several night and dusk trips (approximately 20 miles of nighttime riding) on an Azor Secret Service bicycle.