Portable Adventure

This is a blog about improving everyday life with a bike.

The value of a bicycle isn’t how much you paid for it, but what you can do with it, starting with the basics. Can you store it in a convenient place so it gets used often and boosts your health? Can you transport it easily to safe places to ride?

Once you’re there, can you go nuts with it, trusting your bike to be as rugged as you are? And then, can you find ways to bring your bike with you easily on increasingly epic journeys that broaden your understanding of the world and the people in it?

That’s our mission. That’s portable adventure.

Why would I want my mountain bike pedals to COME OFF???

Flatbike Pop-Off Pedals solve three persistent needs for bike riders everywhere:

  1. AVOID BIKE AND CAR DAMAGE. 
  2. SAVE SPACE. 
  3. AVOID RIDE-OFF THEFT. 

The success began even before we launched on Kickstarter. We threw these pedals against the ISO-4210 destruction test suite for MTB pedals, which included 100,000 cycles of abuse, ranging from impact tests to fatigue tests. 

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Deep dive on the Bimotal Elevate e-bike system

At the Sea Otter Classic in Monterrey, we decided it would be a great idea for me to test out the climbing gears on our CHANGE Folding Adventure Bike. The challenge? Instead of renting a car, do a nearly one-hour climb from the airport hotel, every day, up what Google Maps called a “very steep hill.”

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Two Trend-Spotting Sites Just Profiled This Bike

Well that was an eventful morning. I woke up March 9 to Flatbike on Google News, and friends from US and Canada commenting on the coverage.

Most interestingly, they had different takes on the same bike.

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Bikes on boats: A relationship of convenience?

Unless you’ve got a megayacht, space is at a premium. There’s finite storage, and everything is a tradeoff.

Any new purchase needs to be measured against the same two critical factors:

  1. How much will we use it?
  2. Where will we put it that is both convenient and safe?

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A theft-resistant rugged mountain bike?

Mountain bike design is constantly evolving, faster than any other area of the bike world. But how many of those “must have” new developments every year are really life changing for mountain bike owners—for you?

One massively overlooked feature is portability. Here are four ways that the portability of one bike design alone can make a huge difference your life.

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Bikes and RVs: The perfect match?

On the size scale, RVs and bicycles are complete opposites. Yet they have the same common goal of helping you get outside, explore, and enjoy life. And their differences and synergies make them perfect companions for your next outdoor adventure.

How many times have you tried RV camping and discovered a perfect road to ride on your bike if you had only brought it along? Or your camping setup is so perfect, you don’t want to move anything, so having a bike would be great for quick errands?

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