Joe Bike

Never been to JoeBike Apparel? Go now: 20% off everything through Monday.

Joe — Fri, 24 May 2013 18:46:54 +0000

You can view most of what we’ve got right here. JoeBike Apparel is at 3953 SE Hawthorne and is open 11-6 every day. This sale includes everything at the Hawthorne store: all of our urban apparel, plus helmets from Sahn, Bern, and Giro. Plus bags and tool rolls from Brooks, Chrome, and Mission Workshop. Plus [...]

How are your clothes made? We tour Calgary’s Riyoko Urban Bikewear

Joe — Sun, 19 May 2013 22:12:05 +0000

Most of the pieces at JoeBike Apparel are made in the US or Canada. Even then, customers don’t often see how their clothing is made or who makes it. So we asked Kristi Woo, the Calgary-based designer who sends us some of our favorite women’s bike wear under the brand Riyoko Urban Bikewear, for [...]

Introducing our own premium Yuba Mundo: the Mundo Portlandistan

Joe — Wed, 15 May 2013 19:38:18 +0000

A few weeks ago, Yuba Bicycles introduced its first premium Mundo, called the Luxe. While we were surprised how much we liked the n360 hub on the Luxe Mundo, we had a couple of reservations about other choices Yuba made to get the Luxe to market, especially the lack of a front disc brake and [...]

Alive! It’s aliiiiiiiive! We review the Norco Indie Drop Alfine Di2

Joe — Sat, 11 May 2013 18:43:54 +0000

Di2 electronic shifting and the Alfine 11 internally geared hub might seem an unlikely hookup. Di2 is one of the current darlings of the road racing set because it allows for blazingly fast shifting. Alfine 11, on the other hand, is a current darling of urban biking because it’s weatherproof, extemely low maintenance, and lets [...]

A (mostly) glowing review of the @yubabicycles Lux Mundo

Joe — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:47:05 +0000

One of the things we like most about Yuba Bicycles, a company so small their whole staff could fit on a single one of their Mundos, is that they improve their bikes and accessories more frequently than any other brand we know of. We don’t mean once a year, but more like every few months. [...]

Our t-shirt says the revolution will not be motorized. Our t-shirt is pissed. El-Boda from Yuba is in stock.

Joe — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 19:34:49 +0000

So here it is, an e-assist cargo bike at Joe Bike: the compact or “midtail” elBoda ($2697) from Yuba Bicycles. How does it run? Completely at odds with our t-shirt, that’s how: T-shirt not happy. At some point in the past year, it’s been feeling more and more futile to argue against demand. Whereas [...]

New Bike Sunday: Soma Double Cross disc

admin — Sun, 07 Apr 2013 20:24:31 +0000

Rainy Sunday mornings are a good time to put our thoughts together on the bikes we’ve brought in just for Portland. Here’s the first of three we brought in this past week. (The other two: the Soma Buena Vista mixte and the Norco Indie Drop. Write-ups coming soon.) The Soma Fabrications Double-Cross is a disc-brake [...]

Panorama: The view inside JoeBike Apparel. If you’ve ever been in our old bike shop, you won’t believe this.

Joe — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 05:11:18 +0000

Joe Bike assistant manager Krishna Muirhead, who is also a pro photographer as well as a pro mechanic, stopped by JoeBike Apparel this morning. This shop is, in fact, his brainchild. Well done, sir. May you be blessed with many other children. And yes, this is where our original bike shop was for four years, [...]

No need to forget to remember you forgot to not forget you lost your pant cuff and need to buy a new one again before you can get the hell out of there. Meet the G1 Pant.

Joe — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:22:28 +0000

What’s this? It’s one of the features of the Seattle-made G1 pant from Greenlite Heavy Industries. Greenlite has designed what it calls the D-Greaser cuff into the inside of the pant’s right ankle. Give the hem one roll before you toss your leg over the top tube, snap the cuff in place, and you’re all [...]

Elegant and practical, just like you: Walnut Studiolo’s leather accessories are in stock.

Joe — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 18:43:34 +0000

The finest hand-tooled leather and wood accessories for bikes are made right here in Southeast Portland by Walnut Studiolo, the creation of Geoff and Valerie Franklin. And Joe Bike is the only shop in the world where you can see and buy all of Walnut’s bike accessories. Says Geoff, an architect and cyclist: “Bicycle accessories [...]