Features

Team Mariposa: Ontario Provincial Cyclocross Championships

November 17, 2016

Team Mariposa had a strong showing at the Silver Goose Ontario Provincial Championships last weekend. Scott Fiztgerald, Sjaan Gerth and Peter Morse placed 2nd, 4th and 8th in the elite...

Canadian Cycling Magazine Review: Mariposa Cyclocross

November 2, 2016

Traditional Steel Gets A Boost With Modern Touches By Matthew Pioro The riders ahead of me moved faster than I could over the bumpy dirt path. I got thistle whipped...

Mamnick Journal : Local Riders Q&A with Michael Barry

November 2, 2016

Michael Barry is a former world-tour professional cyclist who rode for a number of world-class teams including T-Mobile, High Road/HTC-Columbia, U.S. Postal Service, Discovery Channel and Team Sky. He raced...

Mariposa 650B All-Road "Growling Beaver" Tandem

October 4, 2016

Photography by Walter Lai Mariposa bicycles started building tandems 30 years ago. Over the years we have built several 650 B touring tandems. While most had carriers and mudguards, this...

Mariposa "Redfeather" All-Road Touring Bicycle

September 28, 2016

This bicycle was custom built at the Mariposa workshop the summer of 2016 for Clara Hughes to be ridden on all-road heavily loaded bicycle tours. All carriers and bottle cages...

Vintage Bicycle Feature: Mariposa Randonneur, 1981: Raid Pyrenean Bicycle

September 22, 2016

By Mike Barry Sr. Photography By Walter Lai In 1981, my ex business partner, Mike Brown and I decided to attempt the Raid Pryenean, a 750 kilometer journey across the...

Pyrenees Tour

September 19, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Michael Barry, Jaume Cabruja, Jordi Cantal and Albert Pages Having ridden all over the world, the Pyrenean mountains remain one of my favourite spots to...

La Ruta Mar i Muntanya

September 12, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Michael Barry, Jaume Cabruja, Jordi Cantal and Albert Pages Girona has become a European base for many pro cyclists—a recent count figured they were roughly...

Vintage Bicycle Feature: 1975 Zeus

September 9, 2016

By Mike Barry Sr. Photography by Walter Lai Spain is not well known for its bikes. In many ways it is an ideal cycling destination but is nowhere near as...

Greg Curnoe's Mariposa Low Profile (Video)

August 23, 2016

[embed]https://vimeo.com/179914594[/embed] Canadian artist, Greg Curnoe's 1975 Mariposa Low Profile time trial bicycle. For more information on this bicycle, as well as Greg Curnoe's other Mariposa Bicycles, please read Mike Barry's...

A Versatile Adventure Bike

August 11, 2016

By Michael Barry Photography by Walter Lai Over the last year I’ve ridden my Mariposa cyclocross bike on varied terrain and on virtually every surface: from singletrack to gravel to...

BGA. France, 1936.

August 9, 2016

By Mike Barry Sr. Photography by Walter Lai A few years ago my son Michael was scanning the French eBay site and came across a french bike that had a...