We’re mailing the 20th Anniversary Bicycle Quarterly today. It’s an exciting milestone. Has it really been 20 years? Yes, we’re no longer the kids from Seattle, barely-out-of-college, whom the cycling establishment eyed with suspicion. What used to be radical ideas—things like “wide tires can roll fast” or “gravel riding can be fun”—are so… read more

In discussions of supple tires, you sometimes hear comments along the lines of: “If wide tires are so great, why don’t they score at the very top in lab tests?” That’s a good question, and it goes to the root of how to test things: If tests don’t replicate the real world,… read more

It’s the holiday season, and finding gifts is one of the things that can contribute to holiday stress. It needn’t be that way—gifts can be fun for both the giver and the recipient. At least for cyclists, it’s easy to find something that will delight and be useful. Hopefully we don’t need to… read more