Paola recently went on pilgrimage to the greatest bike shops of Japan, came back with the nicest assortment of parts, and said “build me a bike!” We obliged, and with this Monet-blue Rachel frame as the foundation, everything came together into the loveliest custom we’ve seen in a minute. With highlights from Crumbwork
Bassi Rachel Rambler Complete Bicycle
Built to order - most sizes are currently available to purchase, with quick turnaround for pickup or delivery. Our beautiful Rachel step-through frame, named for the street where our flagship store is located, is back with a few improvements! Some people were using their original-run Rachels for full-on four-pannier in
Van's Rachel
Van's had a couple bikes built by us, each one more tasteful than the last. His brand new brown Rachel, that he realized he needed after he couldn't stop borrowing his partner's blue one, is a nice mix of parts pulled off his BMX-y Hog and some new bits, all in keeping with the comfy, good looking, and practical vibes.
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Lilah's Beautiful Rachel
Ever since I took a spin on a borrowed single speed Rachel about four years ago, from the dark blue/mustard yellow batch, I was enamoured. My old Specialized Hardrock was starting to make squeaks, creaks and cracks that were becoming difficult to stand, and the Rachel seemed like a perfect candidate for a do-it-all rep
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A hopeful view toward the future of biking in the Bay
Giro d'Italia 2026 | Official site
Visit the official website of Giro d'Italia 2026 and discover all the latest updates and info on the route, stages, teams and the latest news.
Design Thinking
In the past, design has most often occurred fairly far downstream in the development process and has focused on making new products aesthetically attractive or enhancing brand perception through smart, evocative advertising. Today, as innovation’s terrain expands to encompass human-centered processes and services as well as products, companies are asking designers to create ideas rather than to simply dress them up. Brown, the CEO and president of the innovation and design firm IDEO, is a leading proponent of design thinking—a method of meeting people’s needs and desires in a technologically feasible and strategically viable way. In this article he offers several intriguing examples of the discipline at work. One involves a collaboration between frontline employees from health care provider Kaiser Permanente and Brown’s firm to reengineer nursing-staff shift changes at four Kaiser hospitals. Close observation of actual shift changes, combined with brainstorming and rapid prototyping, produced new procedures and software that radically streamlined information exchange between shifts. The result was more time for nursing, better-informed patient care, and a happier nursing staff. Another involves the Japanese bicycle components manufacturer Shimano, which worked with IDEO to learn why 90% of American adults don’t ride bikes. The interdisciplinary project team discovered that intimidating retail experiences, the complexity and cost of sophisticated bikes, and the danger of cycling on heavily trafficked roads had overshadowed people’s happy memories of childhood biking. So the team created a brand concept—“Coasting”—to describe a whole new category of biking and developed new in-store retailing strategies, a public relations campaign to identify safe places to cycle, and a reference design to inspire designers at the companies that went on to manufacture Coasting bikes. [hbr_brightcove id=”4443548301001″]
ale, today › One year of cargo biking
Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one
ale, today › One year of cargo biking
Some random notes from my first year with an electric cargo bike, and why you should (maybe) get one
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About Grin - About Us
Based in Vancouver BC, Canada, we are a team of electric bike enthusiasts eager to change the face of modern transportation...
As a dude who just came back from A Very Expensive E-Bike Shop, I'm curious what the answer to this is. Particularly curious to know if China or India are in a different, more interoperable place? sfba.social/@ascentale/117096532240532224
Phil (ascentale) (@ascentale@sfba.social)
sfba.socialHey folks! We’ve been hard at work on the next stage of Radial and we want you to be involved. We’re making an app that makes being a Pro Cycling fan easier, and it’s built on ATProto, the technology that powers Bluesky. We’re opening up early access to the app TODAY! 🚴♀️ Ride along in this thread👇
