Perennial Cycle

Momentum is a favorite cycling publication here at the shop. It's a bit Euro in that the magazine is all about real world people riding bikes in the real world. If you haven't had a chance to read it I'd recommend jumping on the website and checking Momentum out.
The current issue has an article by Troy Pieper titled "Recumbent Riders". There are a couple of Perennial Cycle mentions in the article and both John McConaghay and Luke Breen (myself) were sources for the article.

The first order placed with ICE was actually with the previous owner (Peter Ross) and the company was named TRICE. I'm thinking that was 14 years ago. The draw for me was that it was a design that could be packed into a small carton, so having one shipped from the UK was not exorbitant. Perennial Cycle has kept up that relationship every year since.

Chris and Neil took over shortly after we got our first trike and within a short time they had made so many improvements on the original model that they changed the name to ICE (Inspired Cycle Engineering) and kept improving the design as well as the manufacturing process.

Over the years I have often told customers that I don't think the guys at ICE sleep and that is how they can keep making so many improvements to their trikes. I've also said that they certainly know what to do when they get out of bed in the morning...Go To Work...and Stay Late.

All their hard work appears to be paying off in a big way for them. The trikes are extremely polished and any resemblance to the original model is only visible to a highly trained eye (mine might be the only one).

Several years back ICE was battling for the #1 position in the trike world with a few other manufacturers and I felt like they were #1. I told this to Neil and he said there's only one direction to go if you are on the top. At the time I thought he was saying "down", but I was wrong.

Congrats to the team at ICE. It's a great team with tons of integrity and a desire to make the best.

Last year ICE saw an 80% increase in sales. This is due to a number of things lining up for them, but the key feature was their product.
Here's a video from ICE that will give you a feel for the company:

You can see our ICE Trikes HERE

This past summer we had a Brompton learning seminar with our Brompton Agent Ed Rae. We learned lots of new info regarding the phenomenal folding bikes (we love them), ate some great pizza from Lucé and finished off the event with some friendly competition:

Who can fold a Brompton bicycle the fastest?

Here's a video of the fun race.

Linus Bikes have proven to be a very practical line of bikes that we love for their utility sensibility, but certainly one can't miss the simple and clean aesthetic design. Today's New York Times features Linus for just these features.

You can check out the feature on the NYTimes web page HERE