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Rivendell Bicycle Works is offering reparations to Black people in the form of a 45% discount on its bicycles. This unusual new discount doesn't have much precedent, but the company believes it's ...
High-end Rivendell bicycles are as intriguing--and quirky--as the guy who makes them. He is known in the bicycle industry as the "retro-grouch." Grant Petersen doesn't like the label, but he ...
Bike To Work Day: Your Photos, And Riding Advice From Grant Petersen Of Rivendell Bikes : The Two-Way For many people, Bike to Work Day is a reason to put air in their bike's tires and see if the ...
First up is Rivendell Bicycle Works, a Bay Area steel bike brand that offers reparations in the form of a 45 percent discount to Black customers on bikes and frames sold through its website and ...
Rivendell Bicycle Works now has a home in Portland. Rivelo is a new bike shop in inner southeast that’s set to fully open next month as a dealer of the famous brand’s bikes, bags, apparel and other ...
We’ll be seeing more Rivendell builds from Golden Pliers, like this pleasing Hunqapillar. (Photo: Golden Pliers) With all the doom-and-gloom news about local retail lately, I’m eager to share good ...
In May 1995, Grant Petersen scrawled three words in his diary: “Time to panic.” For six months, the contrarian founder of Rivendell Bicycle Works had been slaving seven days a week, designing ...
City Bikes. As a longtime rider of Rivendell bikes (fourteen years and counting), I was overjoyed to read Anna Wiener’s profile of the Rivendell Bicycle Works founder, Grant Petersen (“Joy ...