We’ve Moved!

Sojourner Cyclery is now Sojourn Cyclery. We’re doing some really cool things and have a lot to show you so please check out our new site at sojourn-cyclery.com! Thank you!

Wooden Electric Bicycle

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I partnered with the Jim Turner, the president of OptiBike (http://optibike.com/) to make an electric wooden bicycle. E-bikes are the wave of the future in sustainable transportation. What a great marriage, sustainable transportation framed by the most sustainable frame building material known to man – wood. More sustainable than bamboo (grass) because of all the carbon […]

Why Wood

Why build a bicycle frame out of wood? That is probably the number one question I get from people who see my wooden framed bicycles. The answer is multifaceted, ranging from simple to quite complex. The very first bicycles were made of wood. If you have the opportunity to visit the Bicycle Museum of America […]

2013, Midwest Tandem Ralley and the 45th annual Hilly Hundred

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The ever perfect Courtney Johnson, heir apparent to precision tandems, wrote a marvelous account of the MTR. I was honored to be photographed in her blog as “these guys have a bike made of wood”. Here is the link to Courtney’s blog: http://www.precisiontandems.com/mtr2013/mtr2013.htm . Courtney and Natalie reminded us so much of our daughters, Ella and Sarah as […]