by David Lafferty | Mar 29, 2024 | degrees of freedom
Chinook kits will be available soon! We’ve partnered with Innerforce to design our first cycling kit (and technical t-shirt). We’ll have a web store opening next week for approximately 2 weeks. Once the store closes orders ship in 8 weeks. So if you’d like a new kit...
by Emily Lafferty | Sep 12, 2023 | Travel + Touring
Join us June 8th – 18th 2024 for a scenic and cultural tour of Provence by tandem bicycle. Cycles Chinook along with Chinook owners and local tour leaders, Smith and Claude have partnered together to create our first annual Chinook Tandem Bicycle Tour in...
by David Lafferty | Mar 24, 2020 | degrees of freedom
Today’s quote comes from writer and poet Stephanie Bennett-Henry. We saw the saying on a motivational sign in the middle of a Farm-to-Fork Fondo in Maine or Vermont a few years ago. As Covid-19 works its way around the globe, wreaking havoc on health care...
by David Lafferty | Oct 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are excited to announce the grand opening of our new website loaded with new-to-us features. We’ve added a secure shopping cart for building semi-custom bikes, storing information for custom builds, and ordering accessories.The bike builder tool lets customers...
by David Lafferty | Sep 18, 2019 | bike design, degrees of freedom
What kind of titanium do you use and why? Our frame tubes are made from 3Al-2.5V titanium, which offers excellent forming and welding characteristics. Machined parts of the frame — head tubes, bottom bracket shells, couplers, dropouts, cable stops, bottle bosses — are...
by Emily Lafferty | Dec 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
Changing our name, but still awesome. It’s December. This is the time of year that many folks like to reflect on the year that’s passed and make resolutions or goals for the coming year. On a personal level, those first few snowstorms in November start us dreaming...