Easily one of our most popular events is a bi-weekly night ride.  It’s slow and accessible for all types of riders.  We’ll utilize our cargo bike, converting it into a mobile stereo complete with self-contained 800W speaker system.  It’s insanely loud. Enough so to render the rider isolated, unable to hold a conversation with the throng of riders around.

We’ve hosted this particular ride, without fail for over three years now, rain or shine.  Lately we’ve used it as a tool for collaboration.  Through it we’re able to offer our friends and community the chance to explore new places in the city all the while supporting other businesses in town.  This is beside the primary fact that this ride is good, old-fashioned fun.  Read more

For its third year and running, we’re getting geared up for our shop’s customer appreciation event.  Starting June 1st and lasting until June 12th, we’ll be hosting several special events in thanks of our customers and our community.

This also means we’ll have great deals on complete bikes and everything else.  Look forward to 20% off on all complete bikes, pre-built or custom.  Everything else in the store will be 10% off, including our awesome maintenance services. Read more

We’ve decided it best to give an even greater notice for our upcoming countryside rides.  So, with 3 weeks until the next one, here is the plan for our greater tours of the Sichuan countryside.

June 11th we’ll be hosting our Ziyang Reservoir Ride.  This ride, stretching the roughly 70km from Ziyang (资阳) to Taiping Village (太平镇) just to the south of Longquanyi (龙泉驿).  Mostly flat with some small hills, this ride passes by the beautiful Sancha Lake (三岔胡) before one final climb and descent to the finish.  The registration deadline is June 8th.

June 25th we’ll be hosting our Renshou Ride.  This ride is just short of 70km stretching from Renshou to Ziyang.  South of the Longquan mountain range, expect mostly flat terrain with a few slight rolling hills as we wind our way through the countryside.  The registration deadline is June 22nd. Read more

There’s an old saying.  You can’t afford to buy anything cheap.  The meaning is very straightforward.  The extra cost of maintaining, fixing and regularly replacing some cheap broken thing is greater than just spending the extra on something of quality from the start.

There’s an old saying.  You can’t afford to buy anything cheap.  The meaning is very straightforward.  The extra cost of maintaining, fixing and regularly replacing some cheap broken thing is greater than just spending the extra on something of quality from the start. Read more

We’re pretty popular here at Natooke. Between all the bikes, the rides, the people and activities there’s a lot going on. This makes it kind of tough to answer everyone’s questions all the time. So we’ve decided to compile a list of information that can concisely answer the most common questions!  Read more

Maybe you read the re-cap of our mountain bike race in Tibet.  You likely noticed this machine in some of the photos.  We wrote a full review of this bike.  Check it out over at the Source Cycles blog!  Photo credits, Tyler Bowa of Factory Five.

And yes.  This bike was a blast to ride.

Weather’s looking pretty sweet this week. So be sure to join us this for the Friday Night Ride.  Sets out at 8:00pm!  We will wrap up our ride at Hugo Brewpub!  They’ll be graciously offering specials on drinks for all riders.

If you don’t have a bike, please call (028) 8504 2450 on Friday to rent one. Have fun, be safe!

It’s super high altitude makes for tough riding, but the city itself is mostly flat and is perfect to ride around.  More photos and info about our trip is up at Source Cycles.

In the end the Natooke team bagged 7th, 16th, 17th and 19the place!  Not bad for being so badly out of breath.  For more photos and a detailed write-up of the race, check it out here!

Finally the re-cap of the Tibet trip has gotten to the race.  Read more at Source Cycles.