A new city bike off to Vancouver. Built with Kaisei tubing, a Genesis carbon fork (with carrier mounts, internal hydraulic disc brake routing and dynamo light routing), a 1x White…
The Compounding Benefits Of Micro-Commutes
As the Dutch riders dominated all of the Cyclo Cross World Championships categories last weekend, I kept imagining them riding around on their big Dutch city bikes as kids in the…
Restoration Feature: Cyclocross to Commuter Bike Conversion
We took a beat up 1990s Desmarais Cyclocross frame, that was ridden by two time provincial road champ Joe Guilliano, stripped it, sand blasted it, built a new fork (the fork…
BGA. France, 1936.
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…
MIXTE
By Dede Barry Video by Dave Delnea, Westside Studio Toronto Photography by Walter Lai When I was a girl, growing up in Milwaukee in the 70’s, a step through bike…
A CHEF’S PORTEUR
By Michael Barry Video and Photography by Dave Delnea, Westside Studio Chris’ passion for life emanates whether he is cooking a feast, pedaling across the country, commuting to work or…
THE LIFE OF A BIKE
By Michael Barry A good steel frame can be used repeatedly, for decades. It can be ridden, crashed, fixed and adapted. In the shop, old bikes come in constantly that…
A New Treader
Words by Mike Barry Sr. Photos by Walter Lai and Dede Barry Over the last 67 years that I have been cycling, I have had many bikes. Just two of…