It's been a day of meetings and I'm totally knackered, so this will be short. I had a very long meeting with Tetsyu-san, President o...

I just got to Interbike and I've already found a few products that might be worth stocking. Parsons saddles are made from water buffalo ...

I'm flying off to Las Vegas for Interbike later today. That means e-mail responses to technical questions may be delayed a few days. I s...

Just in: ViVa bag supports are very light and work perfectly with Ostritch and Carraidice saddle bags. They can be installed without removi...

Bicycle Quarterly reviews the VO Randonneur in it's current issue. To say that BQ's Editor and reviewer, Jan Heine, offers a positi...

David Rowe is a persistent fellow; he's been asking me to read and mention his new e-book for months. Well, I finally read , A Rider...

I think the fashion business is one of mankind's sillier creations. A massive industry is based on consumers (not customers) throwing ou...

David originally ordered a Velo Orange 650B Randonneur frame for his wife. But as the months passed they decided that since most of her ridi...

Derek sent some very nice photos of his new frame, which was built up for fast riding. Here's what he said in the e-mail: The bike is lo...

I've been promising to develop a little mount to attach B&M mounts to VO (and other) racks. Here are a couple of photos. You could p...

I've come across a few links you might find interesting: Joel at Blackbird has some fantastic porteur photos (as on the right). Note th...

There is a magazine called Good Old Boat about restoring and sailing older boats. There really should be a similar publication about bikes....

Two articles in the Guardian last week caught my attention and stayed with me. So this post has nothing to do with bicycles. It is about ic...

A couple of weeks ago we had a discussion of modernist design and bikes. So it was impossible to resist stocking a few of these NOS Modolo ...

Yesterday's Guardian has an article entitled The Wiki Way . It's about Don Tapscott and his book, Wikinomics , which I happen to be ...

The photo shows the lugs we are planning to use on the production Velo Orange randonneur. They are made by Long Shen and the quality is firs...

I was bored last night and decided to redesign the blog. I think it looks a little cleaner. What do you think? The photo is from Velorution ...

We now have, or are soon getting, a number of items our faithful customers have asked for: We just received Honjo 43mm smooth and hammered f...

We just received several boxes from Nitto. Inside I discovered a long awaited shipment of water bottle cages. I'm delighted every time I...

A few short notes: Grand Bois tires are in stock again. We have both the 700C x 30 and the new folding version of the 650B x 32 . Bicycle Q...

Paris-Brest-Paris is being run August 20-24, 2007 and many of our customers and friends are riding. I case you don't know what PBP is, h...

The very last of our TA Pro 5 Vis 60th Anniversary cranks have arrived in the US and will be in our shop in a few days. They will be availa...