It looks like the rest of America is catching on. US bike sales have been higher than car sales so far this year. It might have something to do with cars being more expensive than bikes, but we need to take these victories where we find them. The Huffington Post has the full story on [...]

Let’s face it; one of the barriers to stepping into an electric bike is that you don’t want to go back to being the only kid with training wheels. Trying something new in the bike community isn’t always the easiest move. If Gruber manages to get the price down on their Gruber Assist electric bike [...]

Varsity Bike & Transit has gone greener. We have purchased wind credits for our electrical consumption through X-Cel energy. Wind credits are a promise by the consumer to support financing wind power that goes into the national grid, which of course for now is more expensive to produce than conventional “brown” energy. Our power consumption [...]

Recently I started riding the A2B Metro Electric Bicycle from Ultra Motor. This bike is so much fun it should be illegal. It is so much friggin fun. It is so much more like a moped than a bike but is so much cooler as well. Here are a few of it’s advantages: • Speed [...]

The two electric bikes I have been riding really are different. I am hoping to test some limits of the electric bikes during my commuter adventures. I typically ride from my office in Southeast Minneapolis to downtown. I’m not sure exactly how far this is but my next post will have some data on distance, speeds and [...]

Last year they were walking around in their sister’s jeans and now everyone’s stealing their spinster aunt’s fanny packs. Thanks to Chrome and Urban Hunter, these mini utility bags (fanny packs) or lock holsters are the latest way to keep a U-lock at the ready in case you need to dent some cars. There was [...]

I Colorized My Bike I took the plunge and colorized my bike. We need to come up with a better word for that.  At least I get to blame my daughter.  She started it by taking off her purple “girl talk” top tube protector and adding it to my bike.  That gave me the inspiration [...]