Posts Tagged ‘Burley Trailers’
Take Your Toddler on a Bike Tour
You’re a cyclist. You love your Wednesday evening rides with the buddies and you geek out on gear and maybe you’ve gone on a few bike tours in your lifetime. You’re also a Mom or a Dad, so you want to infect your kids with the joy of cycling that has made your life that…
Read MoreBring Your Kids Biking with a Robert Axle Thru Axle
The Kid Trailer Axles are easy to install and use, so you can bring your kids biking with you. Child carriers, such as Burley, Thule, Chariot, provide a great way to share your adventures with those you love. With our 12mm Thru Axles for Kid Trailers, you can attach “hitch style” trailer to any bike with a rear…
Read MoreBreaking Axles Is Fun! (Also known as: Why “made in USA” matters to us)
Let’s talk a bit about “Made in USA”. It’s a complicated thing, we know. Affordability, quality, customer service, and practicality all come into play. Making our thru axles here, instead of China or Taiwan, is important to us because we can employ local skilled people and support our local economy. We also like to be…
Read More2017 CABDA Expo Recap
Thru axles, hot dogs and a friendly trade show atmosphere. Last week, we spent a few days in St. Charles, Illinois (about 30 miles west of Chicago) at the 2017 CABDA Expo. We’ll be honest here. Trade shows are a mixed bag. They can be fun and interesting, but also tiring and frustrating. But the CABDA…
Read MoreThe Robert Axle Project makes it easier to find 12mm thru axle adapters for your needs
Bikerumor.com March 2016 Sometimes with innovation there is a sacrifice with some associated items becoming obsolete. Thru-axles are a perfect example of that. They are a stronger and offer more precise wheel to frame interface and have become standard on almost all mountain bikes and now some road and cross bikes as well. However, with this…
Read MoreTrailer Compatible Through-Axle
As seen in the July 1, 2014 issue of Bicycle Retailer and Industry News: BEND, OR – You may be proud of your new mountain bike purchase and its stout through-axle design, but say goodbye to trailers and trainers. That is until you purchase Robert Axle, an aftermarket 12-millimeter trailer-compatible through-axle that allows trailer hitches…
Read MoreRobert Axle on Bike Rumor
We were pleased to wake up this morning to find Robert Axle on Bike Rumor! “For adventures or those with kids, having the ability to tow a trailer behind their bicycle is essential. Unfortunately for those riders, they’ve been cornered out of the new bike market, because the current 142×12 standard is incompatible with…
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