Stories from Clever Cycles
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Up to 50% off Breezer clearance
Clever Cycles &bull Oct 31, 2011
Breezer city bikes have always stood out among our offerings as great values, bringing premium European city bike feature sets to the lighter, sportier feeling frames Americans are accustomed to. They've always been popular, but this year we just ordered… Full Story »
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Xtravois 2.0, our Oregon Manifest bike
Clever Cycles &bull Sep 22, 2011
The bike Quixote Cycles and we are entering in the Oregon Manifest Constructor's Challenge is a 20-wheeled Xtracycle-standard longtail with a step-through, one-size-fits-most frame, and a large frame-fixed front rack incorporating a stand. It features also very clean Stokemonkey electric… Full Story »
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Oregon Manifest: our Quixotic collaboration
Clever Cycles &bull Sep 7, 2011
This year's Oregon Manifest Constructor's Design Challenge, 23-24 September, aims to coax into being "the ultimate modern utility bike" through a design/build competition. We have partnered with Jonathan Reed of Quixote Cycles to create such a bike, and are pleased… Full Story »
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Fiets of Parenthood returns
Clever Cycles &bull Aug 19, 2011
Are you family bike curious, or already on board? Join us at noon this Sunday, 21 August, for the second annual Fiets of Parenthood family biking festival, celebrating Portland's newish normality of bikes and trikes as everyday family vehicles. Instigated… Full Story »
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Another year, another expansion; the return of WorkCycles, and some tight Swedish bike
Clever Cycles &bull May 20, 2011
It feels like the calm before a storm, or the eye of a storm: a moment of stillness before a few big happenings we expect will keep us too busy to tell you about as they happen. Spoiler alert! We're… Full Story »
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Down the Pacific coast by Brompton
Clever Cycles &bull Nov 26, 2010
Now that it's icy in Portland, I suppose it's time to reminisce on August. I spent the best two weeks of my life thus far riding my trusty Brompton folding bike, lightly modified, about 700 miles down the Pacific coast… Full Story »
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- Time
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Fiets of Parenthood: how we roll
Clever Cycles &bull Jun 15, 2010
After a long, cool, wet Spring, finally the sun came out in all her fierce blazing glory to bless the first inaugural Fiets of Parenthood Pedalpalooza event Saturday, along with everybody else on a bike this weekend in Portland. All… Full Story »
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- Sunweb Pro Job
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Sshhh! Introducing Belmont stealth pantaloons
Clever Cycles &bull Apr 24, 2010
I've barely changed my pants for five months. Rain and shine, cold and not, I've been testing revisions of a new trouser design we've developed with Richard Risemberg at Bicycle Fixation, whose excellent wool knickers, together with Rivendell's MUSA pants,… Full Story »
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