You will have a blast like never before (unless you rode last year's Bike Philly)!

September 13-14 is THE don't miss weekend of Philadelphia cycling.

Saturday, Sept. 13th -- ride the Bicycle Club of Philadelphia's  Scenic Schuylkill Century--ride 25, 38, 62, or the full 100 miles -- join 1,000 other riders for a great morning start; enjoy home-baked goodies at the rest stops and be part of one of the East Coast's best cycling traditions.

Next day, ease up at BIKE PHILLY, featuring 10 to 35 miles of car-free streets and beautiful biking from the Bicycle Coalition--the people who make biking better all over the region. Your registration fee helps bike education, bike parking, bike lanes, and gets you a day where you will think you died and went to Holland!

Kid-friendly, full mech support (thanks to Keswick Cycles--who are coordinating all the local shops)... AND the Trophy Bikes' rolllng sound system will again be pumping out some dance music to keep your cadence up. Look for Trophy staff pulling trailers packed with spare tubes and esoteric tools to handle any mechanical system malfunctions.

<<Clear your calendar, call all your biking friends, and don't miss THE PHILLY BIKE WEEKEND. >> Register now-- limit is 5,000 riders.

NOTE: nursing a sore ankle? Too busy to do the whole ride? Or feeling altruistic? VOLUNTEERS are needed for both these great events... to staff food stops, act as marshals, drive SAG (mech support) vehicles and more. Go to their websites and find out how you can help.

Trophy Bikes will be at the Brompton World Championships in London, set for Sept. 28th... we'll have more as it develops... and pics from the scene of the world's largest folder bike gathering, set at historic Blenheim Castle.

confimed thus far:
trophy's mcget will be racing clean--and wearing a jacket and tie--the BWC requires proper business attire and forbids garish Lycra.

the event includes a LeMans start--riders will run to their Bromptons--and we hope--unfold the correct bike at the beginning of the race.

it's not all tea and skittles.... we will be touring the factory and picking up tech knowledge that we hope will make us better Brompton dealers in future.
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TROPHY BIKES (university city) and the TROPHY BIKE GARAGE (northern liberties) will be closed on sunday and monday
aug. 31 and sept 1 for the holiday...
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then go back
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grueling seven day sked!

One of the great things about being a small business is being, er, "civic"... helping out with organizations and people doing cool things....

SPONSORSHIP is the more or less elastic word for this activity.

Some of the groups we are humbly supporting:

The Painted Bride Art Center

Fairmount Soccer Association.

Schuylkill River Park Alliance and Runnin' on the River.

Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia.

Neighborhood Bike Works.

Bicycle Club of Philadelphia.

Wharton Follies --University of Pennsylvania.

Masterman Outdoor Frisbee Organization

Casino Free Philadelphia

American Cancer Society Bike-A-Thon

Parent Infant Center

These groups all need your help to make Philadelphia a better, more interesting place to be in.
Please visit their websites and consider joining, volunteering or contributing.

thanks
  mcget and the rest of the trophy bike organization....

YES, Trophy Bikes would like to sponsor more activities... but we have to say no a lot, as we are not (yet) trillionaires.

Some tips -- ask early. We like to get on board in time to get ye olde Trophy logo on programs, posters and t-shirts,--so as to selfishly swing as much PR out of our sponsorship as possible!

Come up with some numbers--tell us how many people are coming to your event, how long it lasts, when it started etc.

We generally DO NOT sponsor cross-country charity rides, as there are too many of them and we feel they are not that cost-effective.

We dig sponsoring bike events, especially if they can use non-cash help (see above about our non-trillionaire status).

Greetings... Trophy Bikes needs another staffer--we prefer a gal/guy with shop mech and sales experience, but will train the right person with skills.

It helps if you have a sense of humor, are ready to deal with a really diverse bunch of bike riders (from delivery guys to serious racers to bike tourers to super-commuters). Theater background or sales experience a plus... racing a minus (we like racers, but we already have some on staff and can't close up entirely on race days!)

We offer decent pay, iTunes, and more. P/T to start, will become F/T.

Please send your info to mcget@aol.com

thanks

Destroying the old record company paradigm whilst reducing his carbon footprint are child's play for Thom Yorke of Radiohead, seen here aboard his Brompton Folder in a recent ROLLING STONE feature.

Bromptons are manufactured in England, not that far from Yorke's hometown of Cambridge.

Starting right now-- the Trophy Bike Garage in Nothern Liberties is offering complete bike repairs. We've brought two workstands on line, we're fully-stocked with all common parts (and can get most any other parts within a few days--or overnight if need be!

Garage manager Eric Allen, with assists from Peter Dalkner and the rest of the Trophy Bikes staff, is ready to make your bike happy. We offer free estimates, and fast turnaround to keep you rolling.

Do you have a bike trailer or cargo bike or cargo trike?*
Do you have a strange urge to hang out with like-minded cargo bikers--especially near the end of the month? 

BIKE MOVE is when a gaggle of cyclists converges on some lucky person's house and handles their move-- completely by bike. BIKE MOVE is all the rage in Portland (click HERE to see one), and elsewhere--now it's time to start a Philadelphia edition.
 
TROPHY BIKES is ready to put their Dutch Bakfiets cargo cycle (above), as well as their Burley Flatbed and Fresh Aire trailers to use.

BE A BIKE MOVER!-- Please respond via email to mcget@aol.com ... give your name, type of cargo carrier and neighborhood.  WANT TO BE A BIKE MOVEE? (ideal candidates will be moving under 3 or 4 miles, NOT moving a grand piano--we hope--and be more or less organized.) Contact us at the same email, and we'll start working on BIKE MOVE.
 
*actually, any bike with racks and baskets can be great at a bike move.

6th Edition!
ROUND UP USA FOLDER FEST-REPORTS....


FRI

6 pm COMMERCE BANK MANAYUNK HILLCLIMB, Main and Levering Sts., Manayunk.  CLIMBERS WANTED!

If you're a good climber, please enter this event. TROPHY BIKES is sponsoring a FOLDER CLASS--with cash prizes for the top male and female folder bikers.

OR... ride out with us and cheer as folder bikes from Swift, Dahon,  Friday, Brompton (and more) take on the Manayunk Wall

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SAT
7 am TIME TRIALS Art Museum, 26th & the Parkway. Cheer Swift Folders (and maybe others) racing against the big bikes in the Commerce Bank Time Trials along the MLK Drive.


10 am sharp -- FOLDER BIKE ON RAIL EXCURSION. Meet Trophy Bikes--we'll take the SEPTA 10:20 R6 at 30th St. Station, then ride back from Norristown along the Schuylkill River Bike Path.

ALL DAY –Informal folder demos and test rides. –Trophy Bikes.

2:30 p.m.  FAST FOLD SHOWDOWN and BIFOLDATHLON.
Think you're pretty fast, pardner? Then bring yuhself and yuh folder to the FFS and ride/fold/sit/unfold/ride.  Schuylkill River Park at Market Street. SEE THE '07 FAST FOLD HERE.

SAT EVE approx. 6pm --Evening folder gathering and ride . Bridgewater Pub, 30th St. Station. 30th and Market Sts. There may also be a informal video screening, TBA.

SUN
8:30 am FOLDER RALLY at COMMERCE BANK TRIPLE CROWN race start, Logan Circle, 19th and the Ben Franklin Parkway. Watch race start, visit bike expo.


10am-Noon FOLDER DEMOS and informal talks. Trophy Bikes.


3-5 pm MUSICAL FOLDERS variety ride. Test ride the max number of folder bikes in the minimum time. Schuylkill River Park at Walnut Street.

6:00 pm FOLDER FROLIC. Ride to a classic pub for a good meal.



Want a taste of previous folder fests? -- Check out Bike Friday Customer Evangelist Lynette ("the gal from down under") Chiang's video reports here.

It's cold and we've got lots of SWOBO Sanchez fixies on tap at the Garage -- all sizes, all in Swobo's galvanized silver style.

the Garage is open noon-7pm, seven days a week on Liberties Walk, just a block west of Bar Ferdinand.....

On-line catalog now available. Check it out!

Every day,  we look for interesting things to stock.  If you've heard about something that we should carry at Trophy Bikes... send us an email and we'll try to get it.

Also of note--BIKEALOG--our CD-based catalog with more than 150,000 bike products--full bike specs, parts, clothing, you name it.

We keep it available at our main store on Walnut Street and down at our new Trophy Bike Garage in Northern Liberties.