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Ellum Bags Works Making Handmade Goods in the USA
Ellum Bag Works has been on our radar for the past year. Colorfully patterned cycling caps and customized screen printing makes for unique designs that no one else on the market is offering. Ellum is...
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Surly Intergalactic Product Tester!
First of all, sorry for the bit of radio silence on the blog the past couple of weeks. We’ve been taking some much needed away to spend with our neglected friends and families. Planning all of these...
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Wiscowood Reduces Waste while Creating Bike Themed Wood Products
We’ve been meaning to post about Wiscowood since we saw their Kickstarter campaign pop up in our inbox. They are a small Madison based company who have utilized local hacker space, Sector67, to produce...
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Rainy Day Wear to Help You Survive Your Commute
Wisconsin has been experiencing some of the most miserable icy, rainy, sleety weather of all time. Most of us would opt to ride in three feet of snow over rain any day, because at least you stay dry in...
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Surly Now Offers $150 Off Any New Surly Bike
Surly posted a blog this morning that includes a $150 coupon for any in stock complete Surly bike, valid at any US Surly dealer. As a popular bike touring and all around utilitarian bike brand, Surly...
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Spoke Haven 2015 Gift Guide
The holidays are a wonderful time of year. If you are lucky to live in an area with all four seasons you’ll get to enjoy the world of winter biking. With the invention of fat bikes, snow bike races,...
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Po Campo’s Midway Weekender: The Gift that Keeps on Giving
Every so often I receive a holiday gift that I absolutely love and can’t stop talking about. As of December of 2015 that gift has been the Po Campo Midway Weekender (MWW) bag. It’s a bag I have lusted...
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Fitchburg Cycles Partners with Spoke Haven Cycling Club
We are super excited to announce Fitchburg Cycles as a new club supporter. The shop is providing us with a start/end location for rides twice a month as well as in store discounts for club members....
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Winter Powered by Krampus
It’s been awhile and we realize that. Much apologies to anyone who has followed the blog. With lack of a good working computer and living with just a tablet and smartphone, blogging hasn’t been the...
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Liv Cycling Ambassadorship
It’s halfway through the year. HOW DID THAT HAPPEN?! So much amazing stuff has happened this year and it continues to be a whirlwind. Last fall I applied to be an ambassador for Liv Cycling and was...
View ArticleLiv Macha Pro Shoes Video Review
I waited quite awhile for these beauties to arrive while I was a Liv ambassador. Once I finally received them and got some road pedals, they completely changed my thoughts on road cycling specific...
View ArticlePearl Izumi Pursuit Thermal Bib Tight Overview
Please check out my video on the Pearl Izumi Pursuit Thermal Bib Tight. I apologize for the actual video quality on this one. My camera battery died prematurely because it was out in the cold weather...
View ArticlePlanet Bike Rojo 100 Tail Light First Look
Planet Bike is synonymous with bike lights. If you live in the Midwest and ride, you’ve very likely owned at least one Planet Bike (PB) product, if not several like myself. In all honesty I had moved...
View ArticleTopeak Fuel Tank Review
In a land of seemingly endless options of independent makers and custom bag companies, why would anyone want or need a stock production bag? I’m here to dive into the world of production cycling bags...
View ArticleCannondale Topstone Ultegra RX Review
As a bike shop manager it would be sacrilegious if I didn’t adhere to the N+1 methodology of bike ownership. That’s why when I saw the release of the Topstone Carbon line up, I knew I had to get one....
View ArticleBest Bike Tools for the Budding Bike Mechanic
Learning to work on your own bike is a rewarding and empowering experience. It can be intimidating at first, but as you tackle basic repairs it gets easier and practice makes perfect! I wanted to share...
View ArticleRiding to Indian Lake County Park- Video
I’ve had a few days off between my old job ending and my new job starting. I decided to do a ride that I’ve started several times, but never completed because honestly it was a pretty boring route to...
View ArticleSwift Campout ft. Surly Krampus- Video
I decided to do a little S24O bike packing trip on ye olde Surly Krampus and my set of Blackburn Elite Outpost bags. I got to my destination and come night fall, let’s just say it wasn’t an ideal...
View ArticleSalsa Fargo New Bike Day!
Let’s start the blog with some honesty. The last 6 months have been an absolute BLUR. I accepted the position of Store Manager for Wheel and Sprocket at the end of September and it’s been like riding...
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