Bike Trailer Blog

Today is Cyber Monday and great deals abound on the Internet.  To that end, we would like to tell you about some of the deals we are offering on Bike Trailer Shop and Bike Bag Shop to make your holiday shopping experience that much easier.
Vaude Panniers and Bike Backpacks Sale
We are currently offering great savings [...]

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With the snow starting to fall here in Flagstaff, AZ, we must take care to ward off cabin fever.  One method is to keep tabs on various bike touring adventures going on around the world.  Why not ride vicariously and let others do the work for a few months while we enjoy the snow?

One such [...]

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BikeBagShop.com is proud to be sponsoring James Bowthorpe of Globe Cycle with Orlieb panniers.  James is currently riding his bicycle around the world in order to raise money and awareness for Parkinson’s Disease research.  James is currently well on his way to breaking the current word record for circumnavigating the world by bicycle, but more [...]

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Please take a moment to visit our new website: www.utilitycycling.org, as we are moving our blogging efforts into a large range of topics beyond bike trailers and bags.  Utility Cycling is dedicated to defining the movement of utility cycling, which encompasses the bicycle as a means of transportation, function, service, mobility, fun, and much, much [...]

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We’re running a great special at BikeBagShop.com.  All of our Bike Gear Combo discounts are 10% off thru July 7th.  This is a great time to get geared up with an Ortlieb, Arkel, Jandd or Vaude package for a big summer adventure.
Talking about our sale brings to mind our BikeBagShop.com sponsered rider James Bowethorpe who [...]

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We’ve been a bit behind the ball on some of the happenings around the Bike Trailer Blog with how busy we’ve been this spring and summer. So this post is a bit late. But it is still worth mentioning how excited we were that our own operations manager and lead programmer, Jeff Hankens [...]

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Here at the Bike Trailer Shop, we spend most of our time thinking about better ways to carry stuff on bicycles.  But occasionally we try to look around at larger transportation issues beyond our somewhat narrow scope.
Hearing about President Obama’s recent agreement  with the auto industry to increase the average fuel efficiency of cars and [...]

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Sometimes there can be much confusion on what type of add-ons your bike can handle.  When adding items like a bike rack, or attaching a bike trailer, it’s sometimes difficult to see which parts are going to be best suited for your bike.  Here are some helpful hints to decipher what parts will fit when [...]

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It feels like Spring here in Flagstaff, Arizona so we might as well call this sale that we’re running on Bike Bag Shop, our Big Spring Ortlieb Sale.  We’re offering 10% off on all Ortlieb products through March 29th.
The photo is showing off Ortlieb Front Roller Plus Panniers, Back Roller Plus Panniers and an Ultimate [...]

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The complete blog series on this tour:
Bike Tour Preperation: Part 1 Destination, Part 2 Training, Part 3 Pack Up!
PCH Tour: There, Biking Back with Burley, The Good, The Bad and The Burley
After 3 days of rest, relaxation, and Christmas gluttony after having ridden north on the PCH, we were ready to hit the road again [...]

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