One of life's little pleasures is a glass of wine and a bit of reading after dinner. On nice summer evenings I'll take my wine in ...

We just received another box of samples and prototypes from several factories. Our agent consolidates these and overnights them to us every ...

Above is Igor's design for a U-lock holster. It's nicer than mine. This is one of those little things I wanted to try on my own ...

We were kicking around the idea of making a U-lock holder to work with Velo Orange racks. This is one design I came up with. It's simp...

Yesterday I saw nice old Motobecane in Annapolis and today noticed this one on Velospace . I was reminded of this post I wrote in 2007 .  A...

Things have been pretty crazy at VO. Not only have we been busier than ever, but we've been working on a bunch of new projects. We...

We finally have all of our rims and hubs back in stock. This includes the following items that we were out of and that many of you were w...

One of the things about VO that has, pleasantly, surprised me is our strong international sales. It's neat to see that our products hav...

Here is another blog post from 2006, slightly updated. I've been re-reading those early post; good memories. Of course many of the items...

This post is from 2006, and might still be useful. There are now 840 posts on the VO blog. You'll find more worthwhile info in the archi...

I remember how hard it was to find decent looking silver brake levers for upright bars just 10 years ago. Usually I'd search E-bay for ...

Don't forget to attend the VO Yard Sale this Sunday. In-person only. No internet orders, sorry. Cash or credit only 15% off a...

The Zeste brakes were developed by an engineer who designs and makes brakes for at least one major pro bike team . Two VO employees put ...

Starting to sort out the sale pile; there's more. We're having a spring warehouse sale. We used to call it a "yard sale...

Here are a few new developments that may interest you. This is the little model name decal that will go on our Polyvalent-700/Campeur...

In our early days we sold this VO leather track style top tube protector. It was made from very thick leather and intended to protect your...

I want to apologize for VO being out of so much stuff right now. Due to some production delays our latest container was shipped over a month...

By Scott I first saw the Stein Mini Cassette Lockring Driver  years ago when working in a little bicycle shop in the suburbs of Vanc...

By Alec Jacob and John have company called Panda Bikes  that makes Bamboo bikes. They're in Fort Collins, Colorado. Fort Collins, by t...

Guest post by Annette: "Buy more! Save more!" That tag line has always annoyed me in its urging unnecessary consumption,...

Credit: Urbanvelo.com Credit: Urbanvelo.com There was some great internet coverage of the North American Handmade Bike show, as usua...

Post by Alec Burney Note: you can click on any photo to see it bigger. Before the Taipei Cycle Show , I took a few days to tour around th...