Stories

In order to make the bikes we wanted to ride, we had to make our own bikes. MADE HERE is our driving ethos. We started this company because of our conviction that we could make superior bikes of superior quality only if we controlled all the pieces – from brand,...

It’s less a crystal ball, and more the types of predictions you make after hour #4 on the bike (or beer #4 in the living room.) The spirit should be directionally right, even if the exact specifics are less so…

2020: The most unrelenting year of our lifetimes? Possibly the case. But there was more to it than Covid bar graphs and election returns. Existence waits for no man. And so existing is what we did. Which means we rode our bikes and thought about them and lusted after new ones.

JOM did an amazing tour of the gravel roads of the American South. He stopped to visit our factory in Bentonville and took a tour of our factory.

The shape-shifting life and times of João warrant book-length treatment. For now, something more brief: 10 questions about his transformation from magazine ad salesman to World Tour pro, his creation of the luxury travel company InGamba, and the relative merits of Portugal and Tuscany.

We visit with the CEO of USA Cycling about the brutal costs of COVID, the transformative impact it's having on USA Cycling, the lessons our sport can learn from the world of running, and his most memorable day on the bike.

He was America's most memorable road racer for the last decade. He retired at the end of 2019 to turn his energy full time to art. Then COVID hit and life got weird. We talk to Taylor about lockdown in Spain, where he's going with his art, and what riding means to him nowadays.

We talk with one of the most prolific -- and one of the most talented -- photographers in the professional peloton. We talk about his most memorable day of shooting, his camera set-up, his love for his hometown of Athens, Georgia, and much more.

Another installment in our occasional series on the most interesting and influential women in the global bike industry. With a formidable record for private equity success in the consumer internet sector, Blythe has become a commanding presence in the cycling market.