A few weeks ago the New York Times ran an excellent article about Vauben , a German town without cars. I meant to mention it then and was re...

Tom and I almost always agree on the products VO should stock, but there are exceptions. When he saw these new grips made especially for Di...

Nothing is ever certain when working with factories 8,000 miles away. Our last shipment is a good example. Two of the items I was most looki...

I thought I'd share a few interesting bits of news. French Headsets We asked about getting the steel French thread headsets made and the...

Tom has worked for months to find a mill in the US that can make cotton handlebar tape. Once he found one we went through a series of protot...

I thought some of you might be interested in a few new VO projects. I wrote about the VO saddle bag support a few days ago and we're now...

The long awaited French threaded bottom brackets have just arrived. That means that you can finally restore that Singer, Reyhand, or Goelan...

We have been selling the Viva Saddle bag support for a few years and, apart from one that broke, most everyone seems very satisfied with the...

VO stems have just arrived and will be in stock shortly. This last production run took a few weeks longer than usual so we had ran out of m...

Like many, I don't understand the fashion industry, which is not to say that I care nothing about fashion. It is a sort of visual art an...

The 12th annual Le Cirque du Cyclisme takes place this weekend in Leesburg Virginia. If you're interested in classic bikes there is now...

As mentioned a few times previously, any blog that becomes even moderately popular attracts a certain number of, usually anonymous, comments...

It seems that there has been a lot of interest in front racks recently, or at least a lot more questions about them have appeared in my inbo...

We'll be closed as of 4pm today and reopen on Tuesday, May 28. The photo is of the VO Polyvalent (multi-purpose) frame described here . ...

David sent the photo above of his bike with a bucket of about 80 baseballs, which he regularly transports on a VO porteur rack. A baseball w...

I was amused by one recent news story and angered by a recent opinion column. Both stories have just a little to do with bikes. Numerous pap...

They won't last long. So if you need one order soon . These are the USA-made stainless steel version. The small shop that makes these c...

The VO showroom will be closed Wednesday afternoon and all day Thursday. We're getting new carpeting. Web orders will go out as usual; t...

The short summer "credit card tour" is the basis of cyclo-touring. You can take this sort of trip most any nice weekend. Stay at ...

I really love the above photo. The bike belongs to Christian who is a randonneur, artist, and longtime VO customer. His work bike has the co...

These past few weeks I've been thinking about multi-purpose bikes, like a city bike that would be comfortable and fast enough for a long...

One of the first products that I wanted VO to have made were handlebar bags. Trying to find a factory that could make them to our satisfacti...

Orange Tressostar tape is back and we have it in stock. You may remember that it was discontinued by the manufacturer, but they seem to hav...

We just received sample VO Porteur bars. You may remember that we used to sell NOS Belleri Porteur bars from France. Of course Belleri is l...

We built up the production Rando frame prototype with an old Campy 10 speed drive train and some, mostly European, racing parts. Please don...