Empowering The Bicycle Traveler

Bike Hermit®

A Visit To King Cage

We have used and sold King Cages for years. Ron Andrews started the company in Durango, Colorado and recently moved into  new, larger accommodations. We stopped in on our way to West Texas and Ron gave us the tour. The price of admission was four Sew Your Oats oatmeal cookies from Bread bakery in Durango Read More

DISCLAIMERS -The Bike Hermit started this post and turned it over to Ryan to do the un-boxing and comparisons of the lights reviewed here. During the final edit it became apparent that the Bike Hermit's contribution was somewhat incoherent and truculent. That part was removed in favor of Ryan's more measured and lucid approach. The Read More

service

Today a customer brought his bike in and purchased a rack which the Bike Hermit installed- without charging for his time. On Saturday last, he installed a rack and new grips and frame bags on a customer's bike. The bike and all the parts had belonged to Bike Touring News just hours before. Is that Read More

Touring and Trekking Tire Trends

At the 2014 Interbike trade show, it seemed to us that 27.5" (a 650b by any other name would ride as sweet), so called "29+" and fatbike tires are gaining traction with manufacturers and with consumers. As fans of the 29+ wheel/tire combo as on the Surly ECR we were excited about the number of Read More