A-D Bikes Blog
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A-D Racing Race Report: Auburn Cycling Classic 2025
Racing in the southeast is great. The fields are big, the bikes are cool, the competition is strong and it is unheard of for me to get in this much racing so early in the season. It is also great to see parts of the region I would never see otherwise.
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Climate Change cooks the Tour de France and floods the Giro D'Italia
My view is that making a small change to how I conduct business and run my life is better than doing nothing, and that if everyone tries to introduce small changes, these changes will take hold and make a difference, hopefully in time to prevent a dystopian future or one that is just not very comfortable. This is how I have arrived at doing what I can to make A-D Bikes a circular and sustainable bike company. -
My Cycling Climate Moment: the water bottles don't freeze anymore on the Double Loop
The last time I was around for the double loop in 2022, it was a balmy 40 degrees by the time the ride was underway. The Gatorade flowed freely. My feet and hands were warm. I wore a wind vest and arm warmers. It felt like early spring in Maine. If I had been asked to identify a single, simple, cycling-related and personal measure of how the climate has changed over the past twenty years, this would have been it. -
A-D Racing: NorthBeast Cycling Classic Race Report
Topview Sports does an excellent job of organizing and executing this event and Cornelia, Georgia, which is in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, is a very nice place to visit and race (it is also the name of our daughter which is really the reason I chose this event....I don't know anyone named Jackson). -
John Burke CEO of Trek is ready to go where no bicycle company has gone before
John Burke (CEO of Trek Bicycle Corpoation) understands the Circular Economy better than he did when he was brainstorming on the white board. Mr. Burke is on the right track and he is ready to bring Trek and the entire bicycle industry kicking and screaming into the twenty-first century. If there ever was a time for a serious restructuring of the bicycle industry it is now. -
John Burke CEO of Trek Bicycle Corporation figures out the Circular Economy
John Burke is a white board guy. He uses that idea very effectively in the Trek Sustainability Report August 2023. -
John Burke CEO of Trek Bicycle Corporation reveals long term thinking in annual sustainability report
John Burke is indeed the first bicycle industry professional that I am aware of to recognize that sustainability is the new gold standard for the industry (not the Tour de France). -
Why does the bicycle industry produce too many bicycles?
What drives the bicycle industry to repeatedly produce more bicycles and e-bikes each year than the market can absorb? Sunk costs. Economies of scale. Ride it out the door. A bike for every price. Model year. -
N + 1 Thought drives the global oversupply of bicycles
N + 1 is embarrassingly out of touch. It sounds like the Schafer beer commercial from the 1970s that went “Schafer is the one beer to have when you are having more than one.” -
How the A-D Bikes buyback program works
The largest expense related to the sale of the frameset is the labor required to clean, describe, image, list pack and ship the frameset. However, I have become very efficient at this process and can turn an item into cash very quickly. It is work, but it generates cash and new business, it helps the customer, it differentiates A-D Bikes from all the other large and small bicycle companies and it is sustainability in action, not green talk or green wash. -
Build your own damn bike
It is much faster for you to buy just the frameset, the bottom bracket and headset from us and buy the components and wheels you want yourself (or use what you have). Of course, we can provide guidance on what works and we can source group sets and wheels on your behalf if you really want us too, but we are just going to ship everything to you and you are going to have to Build Your Own Damn Bike.
