On Thursday we received a shipment of ten Jopo‘s and half is already gone. Here is what Monocle had to say earlier this month about the bike, which guarantees to put a smile on your face when you ride it: In 1964, Helkama launched the Jopo. Just as the Chopper defined 1970s Britain, the Jopo became an icon of 1960s Finland, with a one-for-all egalitarian philosophy. Jopo took its name from the first two letters of Finnish words jokaisen polkupyora, meaning everybody’s bicycle”. Employing a [...]

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It’s not just a comedy show… “Tom Snyders, a comedian who takes the term “road work” quite literally, began his cross country bicycling trek June 20, 1987, in Las Vegas, Nevada. “”The trip got off to a bit of a rough start,” says Snyders. After pedaling his first 1,400 miles in 14 days (across the deserts of Arizona and New Mexico in late June), Snyders found his first scheduled appearance, in Des Moines, Iowa, canceled due to the club burning down! “This initial discouragement and [...]