Please bring a warm welcome to the newest sponsor of Commute by Bike, Mission Workshop.  Mission Workshop is a new company getting ready to launch their amazing urban styled cargo backpacks.  The guys behind Mission are well versed in bag making, coming from a background at Chrome.
Their bags are well thought out, with the expandable [...]

Our group build is about half way through it’s original phases.  After many discussions about bicycle type, exact frame set, the type of shifting and finally the component type. We’ve determined the Long Haul Trucker with a stock build is the bike we are going with.
We’ve moved on to accessorizing and the important question now [...]

With the goal of researching and educating about the European utilization of bicycles we will be reading, writing and reviewing as many “Dutch style” bikes as possible.  As a reader please comment, pass on links and any other information you think will be helpful.

In the next week you’ll see an introduction article of the [...]

A guest post by Eric Leugers, one of the two guys that run Banjo Brothers.

I have been an avid cyclist since purchasing my first road bike at age
15, but only a half-hearted bicycle commuter until recently. Riding
almost always was recreation for me. After moving to Minnesota in the
mid-90’s, I used [...]

Over the next couple weeks you the readers and I will be walking each other through the process of building up a commuter bicycle.  This isn’t only going to be a how to, but also going to go through the questions you need to ask yourself as you are building or picking out a bike [...]

One our new sponsors, Planet Bike, had a pretty incredible new product hit the cycling market in the past week.

Planet Bike has a new light called the Blaze 2W.  The Blaze 1W has been somewhat of an industry standard for affordable LED or go to product in bike shops.  If you want a reliable, durable [...]