Dahon Dispatch Blog

Friday, January 22, 2010
Biking to Work at Patagonia

Outdoor apparel maker Patagonia has a strong history of environmental activism and supporting causes that increase environmental awareness. Since 1985, the company has pledged 1% of it’s sales every year to environmental causes and actively encourages the use of alternative transportation among its employees. Alex Yanez, telecom engineer/coordinator at Lost Arrow, Patagonia, took time to answer questions about the company’s alternative transportation program and how bicycles play a role in helping the company reduce its impact on the environment.

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Thursday, January 21, 2010
Smithfield Nocturne Folding Bike Race

Photos: Larry Hickmott (British Cycling)

Every year on a Saturday summer evening, a crowd gathers in the Smithfield district of London to watch the Smithfield Nocturne Bicycle Races. Here, all types of cyclists from amateur to professional race along the asphalt surrounding the historical Smithfield market area to see just who is fastest on London's inner-city streets. In 2009, Keith Henderson won the amateur category in the folding bike race, making it his second victory in a row.

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Monday, January 18, 2010
Welcome to the new Dahon website!

Welcome to a brand new year and a brand new Dahon website!

About a week ago, we went live with a new site. This year, instead of just updating information about our new folding bicycles and accessories, we performed a complete overhaul of our site. The Dahon website on the surface may look and function the same as before but underneath it is an entirely new infrastructure and code base.

For the past six months, our team has worked hard to migrate our lovingly hand-coded site to a new content management system (CMS) powered by Drupal, an open-source CMS.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Touring Spain

By Barry Evans

We’ve been many times to Europe with our bikes, once every year or two years since 1986, just going on our own, taking either mountain bikes or hybrids (nothing fancy), assembling them at whatever airport we landed at and taking off, not worrying too much about routes until we got there.
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Monday, August 3, 2009
Adventure in Costa Rica

By Clifford Krolick

Clifford Krolick took a pair of 2003 Dahon Matrix bikes on a mountain biking expedition to Costa Rica in 2004. Reprinted here is an excerpt of his write-up of the trip.
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Find out what Dahon is up to

We Bike to Work Blog
A group of employees at Dahon have started a blog about their experiences about biking to work. Appropriately titled “We Bike to Work” the blog is an unofficial company blog and features candid posts by Dahon employees from the company’s offices around the world.

Find out what kind of bikes that the people who work at the world’s leading folding bike company ride and read about the joys and tribulations they face in their daily commute to the office.
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