Something strange happened as the cargo bike made its way from Denmark. On its journey through Holland, Germany, and finally North America, it got heavier. A lot heavier. The cargo bike was born in Denmark, and Denmark still builds the lightest, strongest, and most modular cargo bikes on the market. Today, buyers come in asking...
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For just under a year, Pedaal has been making waves in Toronto’s coffee and cycling scene – and our friends at BlogTO have taken notice! As a Brompton and Bullitt bike dealer, and a specialty coffee shop, we’ve spent the past year turning our dream into reality. Whether it’s city cyclists looking for a gridlock...
In 2008, Copenhagen’s Bullitt was one of just two companies mass-producing cargo bikes, though “mass-producing” might be a stretch. The other was Babboe from the Netherlands. Both were betting on the democratization of the cargo bike—a concept that had been around for nearly a century but never (yet) produced at scale. The two companies couldn’t...
The owners of Pedaal are one part English, one part Dutch, and both parts Canadian. In this travelogue, we feature one part Dutch parents riding one part English bike throughout the landscapes of Europe. It’s an ode to Pedaal’s own parentage! But ultimately, this is a story of what makes Brompton so exceptional. On one...
On February 2nd, we posted “Riding Through The Tariffs,” exploring how Canadian bikes connect with European trading partners to ease gridlock. Many are probably Googling “bikes made in Canada” right now, but if you’re after a city bike, Canadian bike retailers often look to Europe. Canada is known for exporting top-tier road and mountain bikes...
If you’ve ever taken a logic course, you’ve encountered Aristotle’s distinction between genus and species. Genus is the broad category—like rock music—while species is a more specific subset, such as punk rock. Everything in the species belongs to the genus, but not everything in the genus belongs to the species. Classic rock, for instance, is...
Brompton bicycles have no better marketing team than the people who ride their bikes. If you’ve shopped for a Brompton and live in Canada or the USA, you have almost certainly landed on Heather and Pier’s Bromptoning website. And, chances are good you’ve been inspired! Heather and Pier are a living testimony to all the...
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