Tue 22 Dec
2009
Linus Bicycles
A new bike is one of the the best gifts you get for Christmas.
Just down the street from Launderette headquarters, we found Linus Bikes building some of the cleanest, most beautiful bikes we’ve seen for people who need to get about town. In their own words:
“simple, affordable, elegant bikes for riding around and doing stuff.”
It seems in the US our bike options have always been terrain specific (a full roadie or a mountain bike, a niche BMX or heavier beach cruiser), when what many have really needed are gentle city bikes that get us to our friends’ houses and help us do our errands. Linus has finally brought a bike of this mentality stateside.
Inspired by European bicycles of the 50’s and 60’s, a lot of love and design has gone into these to make them as reliable and smooth as they are good looking. Our favorite detail is the canvas saddle bags (not yet pictured on the website) that attach to rear racks over the back tire. Currently available in two styles there is a more rigid laptop bag, and set of duel roll-up grocery panniers.
Such graceful touring style starting at $389 – we only wish we had a body to buy one for this year.
