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At just $7500, this is a spectacular deal. A life-changing purchase. On offer is a bike used by FedEx and by families globally. A bike proven for commercial use and consumer use. It’s a bike from a Danish company who aren’t out to produce another heavy couch on wheels. A bike that deconstructs the idea...
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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...
The Inuktitut language has at least a dozen words for snow, each capturing a different personality of winter’s ever-shifting terrain. Qanik is the soft, fresh stuff. Sitilluqaaq forms stubborn, wind-sculpted drifts. The best snow for riding? That would be illusaq—firm, packed, and ready for action. But on February 22nd, for our Brompton G-Line Snow Day,...
Parents who own an electric cargo bike were surprised to read a Toronto Star article indicating that these bikes are no longer permitted to carry passengers. Indeed, every other bike retailer across Ontario was surprised too. The facts are still emerging, but it appears that the Doug Ford government quietly went back on Bill 282,...
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