One Step Closer to Rail Transit in Madison

Posted on Jan 29th 2010 | Blog, News,

The city of Madison and Southern Wisconsin are one step closer to making rail transit a reality. Wisconsin is to receive $822 million for passenger rails – which would allow you to leave your car at home the next time you want to travel between Madison, Milwaukee, and Chicago. The project is still in its developmental […] read more...

Planet Bike Team across the globe

Posted on Dec 8th 2009 | Bike Life, Blog, News,

Team Planet Bike’s 17 year old cross sensation Kaitlin Antonneau has been competing in Elite UCI events all season and her strong results are starting to get noticed. Cyclocross Magazine recently interviewed Kaitie about how her season has been going. Read the article here. This week the UCI point rankings were upda […] read more...

Fall E-news Letter

Posted on Nov 6th 2009 | Blog, News, Product, Quarterly Dispatch,

Don’t forget to check out our most recent e-news letter. The e-news letter is released quarterly and contains an information section, product feature, advocacy update, and a featured supercommuter. Be sure to add yourself to the list so you receive the newsletter via e-mail in the future. […] read more...

Planet Bike Dominates Near and Far

Posted on Oct 5th 2009 | Blog, News,

The Planet Bike cyclocross team is wasting no time showing it’s massive power. Katie Compton traveled to Italy for round one of the World Cup and rode away from the field just two laps into the race! This continues her unbeaten season and she will wear the World Cup leaders jersey for the first time in her career at ro […] read more...

Planet Bike Assists Green Efforts at Summer Outdoor Retailer

Posted on Jul 28th 2009 | Better World, Blog, News,

Planet Bike supported the Bike Share Program at this year’s Summer Outdoor Retailer (OR), a trade show venue for the outdoor specialty industry which was held in Salt Lake City, UT July 21-24. The 1st year Bike Share Program offered 20 commuter bikes by Swobo equipped with Planet Bike locks and Bern Helmets. Retaile […] read more...

WI gets Complete Streets

Posted on Jul 7th 2009 | Advocacy, Blog, News,

Thanks to the leadership of the Bicycle Federation of Wisconsin, the state budget that was adopted on June 8th includes a state-wide Complete Streets policy. A “Complete Street” is a roadway designed for all road users, including bicyclists, pedestrians, wheelchair users, car drivers and bus riders. Sounds like a no-b […] read more...

Mark LaLonde Wins Race 1 of WORS Series

Posted on May 20th 2009 | Bike Life, Blog, News,

Planet Bike’s own Mark LaLonde took the overall in the Men’s Cat 1 / Pro Field in Iola, WI Sunday, May 17th. The Planet Bike / GT team rider outpaced the star-studded lead group eventually having to out sprint his brother Jesse at the finish line. This was Mark’s second win ever at a WORS event, a 12-race series whi […] read more...

Bike Walk Madison goes live

Posted on Apr 17th 2009 | Advocacy, Blog, News,

Planet Bike’s hometown, Madison, WI, has a new grassroots advocacy group looking out for bicyclists. Bike Walk Madison had our launch party on Wednesday, April 15. About 65 people met at the stunning new Atwood, er I mean , Goodman Community Center off the Isthmus Bike Path. Many thanks to the Underground Food Collec […] read more...

Stimulating Biking

Posted on Feb 18th 2009 | Blog, News,

The $787 billion economic stimulus package signed into law yesterday (2/17/09) has some serious dollars set aside for bike projects. At first reading, there seems to be a minimum of $825 million available for bike projects, up to $1.5 billion. How the money will be spent will be largely up to individual states, so sta […] read more...

And the nominees are…

Posted on Jan 22nd 2009 | Blog, News,

Planet Bike has been selected as a finalist for REI’s 2008 Vendor Partner of the Year Award for their Actionsports Division. It is a tremendous honor for us to receive one of only five nominations from a list of several hundred top companies. We were nominated based on several criteria: -Emphasis on product quality, […] read more...

New kid on the block

Posted on Jan 21st 2009 | Blog, News,

Our pals (and former PB employees) Erik and Dan have hit the ground pedaling with the recent launch of their brainchild, Portland Design Works. I guess it’s true that the nuts don’t fall far from the tree. Gentlemen, from balmy Wisconsin we send our congratulations. […] read more...

New Blood

Posted on Oct 30th 2008 | Blog, News,

2008 has been a heck of a year for us. As soon as gas hit $4 a gallon, things really got rolling for us. (Not that they weren’t already!) We’ve been a small company since we started, but lately, we’ve had to add a few new folks. About two months ago, we hired Heath Fossen to step in to hand the development of new prod […] read more...

Page Wins Cheq 40

Posted on Sep 15th 2008 | Blog, News,

Racing aboard a rigid Ridley that was assemble just a few days before the event, Planet Bike’s Jonathan Page held off hard charging Jeff Hall by seven seconds to win his first Chequamegon Fat Tire 40. Page will switch to the cross bike this week and race this weekend in Michigan at the Tailwinds UCI cross event, and t […] read more...

Big news for our ‘Cross Team

Posted on Mar 20th 2008 | Blog, News,

The deal has been in the works for a few months, but it was official today when JP posted it on his blog. We’ll have more details soon as we finalize a few more things on our end. We’re also pleased to announce Madcross presents: Jonathan Page’s Planet Bike Cup a two day UCI cross event in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin this […] read more...

Keepin’ the pedal on the metal

Posted on Jan 3rd 2008 | Blog, News,

Came in today to find my inbox full of emails from all over with links to this picture below of Planet Bike’s Tristan Schouten lined up with Jamey Driscoll behind Sven Nys of Rabobank. Nys, for those of you unfamiliar with him, is currently the guy to beat in World Cup cyclo-cross. You can see more shots from the GP d […] read more...

Tristan in Belgium

Posted on Dec 28th 2007 | Blog, News,

For most of us, the cyclocross season ended with States or Nationals, but Planet Bike’s Tristan Schouten is still going. Just this last week, he’s already hit 3 world class events in about 5 days. On the 23rd of December, he finished 28th at the Grand Prix Montferland in the Netherlands, on the 26th of December he DNF […] read more...

Planet Bike Goes Solar

Posted on Dec 21st 2007 | Better World, Blog, News,

“Going Green” is a pretty popular buzz phrase these days. It seems like you can’t swing a bag of recyclables without hitting something that is Green lately. There are many things a company can do to go Go Green such as composting, buying off-setting carbon credits, going paper free in the office, or installing motion a […] read more...

Second City, first rate

Posted on Jun 19th 2007 | Advocacy, Bike Life, Blog, News,

About a week ago, we got a call here at Planet Bike HQ informing us that we were winning some type of award. We were all pretty perplexed, but after a few hours of phone tag, we figured out that indeed, we had been tapped to receive an award from the City of Chicago. Mayor Daley’s Bicycle Advisory Council 2007 award fo […] read more...

Busy busy busy

Posted on May 25th 2007 | Bike Life, Blog, News,

It’s been a pretty busy time around Planet Bike World HQ the last month or so. It’s finally spring, well, now it’s almost summer and we’ve been riding, and working like crazy. We hired a new member of our team, Chris Follmer, to handle our warehousing and shipping duties. Chris has a background in warehouse manageme […] read more...

Frost Bike and New Products

Posted on Feb 15th 2007 | Blog, News, Product,

This weekend is the annual dealer show at Quality Bicycle Products up in the Twin Cities. Most of us will be heading out Friday morn, but Jay will be here to help you with questions on Friday should the need arise. For us, Frost Bike is the kick off of the season and we’re looking forward to the warmth and longer days […] read more...

Welcome

Posted on Jan 4th 2007 | News,

The brand spanking new site you are beholding is the result of several months of riding, conceptualizing, planning, riding, taking lots of photos and lately a lot of time in front of the computers around Planet Bike HQ. 2007 marks the 10th year of Planet Bike, and we’ve got some big plans for the coming year! The site […] read more...