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 | 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...
by Emily Lafferty | Jan 20, 2018 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
Tall saguaro cacti, dry treeless landscapes and rugged peaks make Southern Arizona feel like a foreign land, especially when you’re used to the dense forests and rolling hills of the northeast. It was a welcomed contrast from home. January temps in Tucson...
by Emily Lafferty | Oct 26, 2017 | degrees of freedom, Travel + Touring
Sometimes it’s easy to find your next bike that will take your further, faster, and climb higher effortlessly, but as we shopped around over the course of 3 years (we’re overly analytical) we just weren’t finding what we wanted. We wanted our travel bike...
