Field trip! Walnut explores historic leather, cycle history, and high design in Milwaukee Wisconsin. … Read More Field trip: Historic leather, motorcycle history, and high design in Milwaukee Wisconsin
On our recent trip to Japan, we got a sense of the general cycling scene in Japan. Mostly characterized as mamachari (“mama chariots”), they were mostly inexpensive, Dutch-style, step-through bikes with few gears. Which makes sense, because these were mostly cross-town bikes on flat streets. Bike parking was a big deal here. There were bike valets… Read More Field trip: The bicycles of Japan
Valerie just got back from Vietnam, where she was on a two-week foodie trip. Over there, in Saigon, Hoi An, Hue, and Hanoi, she caught sight of a lot of very cool, workaday bicycles in Vietnam, especially for commerce. Here are some of her favorite bike pics from Vietnam. One of the hazards of modernization,… Read More Field trip: The bicycles of Vietnam
