Schlick Cycles

The hugely successful Ray’s MTB Indoor Park is coming to Milwaukee in Fall 2010! I’d been hearing rumors and plans for a while now but a recent Bicycle Retailer and Industry News (BRAIN) story confirmed that this is no rumor! Here is a bit of the low down. Ray’s was the first indoor mountain bike [...]

It also employs more than 13,000 people in the state. That is fantastic! Here is the Press Release from The Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin. REPORT: BICYCLING A KEY CONTRIBUTOR TO WISCONSIN’S ECONOMY MADISON — Recreational bicycling is among Wisconsin’s top outdoor activities in terms of economic impact, and increasing bicycling has the potential to deliver [...]

I headed over to Sun yesterday to visit Russell and pick up some some hand-built wheels he made for a couple of project bikes we have going at the shop. He did a sweet job using some Surly Single Speed hubs I brought in. I got a set of 29′ers with Sun Rhino Lite hoops, [...]

I was perusing some old articles at Dirt Rag and ran across the following article: http://www.dirtragmag.com/web/article.php?ID=606 entitled How to Make a Ski Bike (by Noah Koerper). Since I have the old skis and I am hitting Dave up for his old Ralph race frame it seems like we will be able to get one of [...]

Nick Ginster, a Milwaukee area native, lives in Taiwan and has been helping us with another bike project. He recently visited Milwaukee to see family. We took the opportunity to meet Nick and have him check out the Shark. Here is what he wrote about his experience riding the Shark: I put some miles on [...]

I’ve had the pleasure of riding several RAGBRAIs with Kim West and recently discovered through mutual friend LeeAllen that he has been doing a radio show in Des Moines, IA for a couple of years that is also available as a podcast. He talks about cycling in and around Iowa as well as other, broader [...]

From September 9-26, Milwaukee-based, internationally-touring singer-songwriter Peter Mulvey will again take to his bicycle for a concert tour. This year is his third annual bike/concert tour and begins September 9 with a ferry ride from Milwaukee to Muskegon, MI, where Peter will take to his recumbent bike rigged with guitar and travel necessities and pedal [...]

I’m a bit behind! This is actually from LAST Sunday! Dave called and said he’d be going to check out the custom motorcycle show at the Harley Museun is I decided to head down on the Smitty to meet him. I was interested to see his finished Teesdale MTB he just finished building as well. [...]

Sydney and I took a drive from Milwaukee to Madison to check out the Ride the Drive event. The basic idea is that about a 6-mile route of streets were closed off the motor vehicles to allow cyclists, pedestrians, skateboarders, roller blades, strollers and runners to enjoy the streets to see and experience Madison from [...]