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 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...
by Emily Lafferty | Jul 29, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
What does it feel like to complete Race Across America? “3,067 miles, 180,000 feet of climbing over 7+ days,” was the response of Kyle Coon, a rider on Team Sea to See. We all kind of chuckled at the very literal response to the race announcer’s...
by Emily Lafferty | Jul 21, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
When Andy and Kami White sent a note in the middle of the winter, curious whether Cycles Chinook (then Granite Tandem Design) could build them a custom gravel tandem for an upcoming bikepacking adventure, we didn’t hesitate getting started on this project. Unpaved...
by Emily Lafferty | May 7, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
We left our home in Southern NH on a Friday morning car packed and ready to ride. Temps at home were expected to be in the 50’s with a mix of clouds and sun. As we started to ascended through Franconia Notch on the way to the Northeast Kingdom, there was about...