Brodie 2010

A Rolling Stone Gathers No Moss

Mike Mccardell and the Global TV crew found proof and this rolling stone rides a Brodie! Tony Stramitz cycles Stanley Park in downtown Vancouver almost every day and usually does at least 6 l...

Welcome to the 2010 Brodie website!

Here it is, our new website for 2010. Have a look around, stretch your legs, feel free to browse. In it you'll find 36 bikes for the 2010 season. Don't forget to check out the fu...

2009 Brodie Elan Touring Bike In Tour d'Afrique

Brodie Bikes is sponsoring Miranda Huron with the 2009 Brodie Elan tour...

Tour d'Afrique Update 41: Felix Untied

Today we rode to the Fish River Canyon. It is only a couple of days
from there to the South African border. The canyon itself is the
second largest in the world. Looking...

Tour d'Afrique Update 40: Sudan Fotos

Camp

Coke stop

Dolphin Tuna

Hit by truck

Tour d'Afrique Update 39: Namibia Means Nobody

Getting into Sesriem was nice. It meant getting to see some of the world's largest dunes, and it also meant that I would be riding after the rest day. Sesriem is the gateway to Sossusvl...

Tour d'Afrique Update 38: As It All Unravels...

I woke up from the first decent night’s sleep in a long time. The
cream made a difference instantly. Erin and I cruised around town,
checking out cool venues as we went....

Tour d'Afrique Update 37: There is a Fungus Among Us.

Two hundred and seven kilometers. I started my ride before daybreak.
The rash had kept me up all night, had been for a while, and so I felt
really disoriented. I started my ri...

Tour d'Afrique Update 36: There is no No.1 Ladies Detective Agency

What to do with two days off? This was our second and last rest day.
Since there was no possibility of rafting, I signed up for kayaking.
Peter joined me in that, and it was our gui...

Tour d'Afrique Update 35: Face to Face with the Black Doctor!

I decided to take the scavenger hunt seriously, which meant that I had
to find one of the real challenges: a snake stone. First I had to
find out what it was. Apparently it is...

Tour d'Afrique Update 34: Santa lives in Zambia

There are long days, and then there are long days. Today was 174km, and the official start of us having longer and longer riding days. I guess they've been going too easy on us thus far...

Tour d'Afrique Update 33: I Pity Da Fool!

Leaving Nkhotakota was hard. Getting back onto the bike after beach life is not easy. Fortunately we were headed into a rest day. My credit card didn&...

Tour d'Afrique Update 32: Living Yoga, I Presume

What is the first thing you do on a holiday? Sleep in. We did. Until 6:15. After months of waking up at 4:30 – 5:30, it was wonderful. And the rest of the day? Yoga! Hot sho...

Tour d'Afrique Update 31: Low-Rider

After a luxurious rest day in Chitimba, filled with pig roasts, volleyball and lazing around on the beach, we got back on the road and headed to Mzuzu. The ride was beautiful to start, but th...

Tour d'Afrique Update 30: Mala-weeeeeeeeeeeee!

They say that the ride into Malawi is meant to be the best ride on
the trip. I would have to agree. I started my day climbing a hill
with Rana and Peter. We decided to e...

Tour d'Afrique Update 29: Rider Down

Some days we have bad days. Some days we have terrible days. Today
was the day of the injured. You might remember how I said that they
sometimes misinform us regarding "...

Tour d'Afrique Update 28: A Plague of Locusts

After having a solid day of riding after my day of unending flats I
headed out from camp, confident in my repair job. Until I got my
first flat a few meters later. I am in goo...

Tour d'Afrique Update 27: Life in the Flatlands

After leaving Arusha we had a joy-filled day of smooth pavement. We
were going the same route as we had taken to get to the Seren...

Tour d'Afrique Update 26: Life in the Flatlands

After leaving Arusha we had a joy-filled day of smooth pavement. We
were going the same route as we had taken to get to the Serengeti -
minus one vital turn off - so we kept our eye...

Tour d'Afrique Update 25: Lions and Tigers and Bears!

The Ngorogoro crater is one of the most spectacular places on earth. It has both fresh and saltwater in it, and is one of the most species-rich places you will ever see.

Driving to the c...

Tour d'Afrique Update 24: Albinos under siege!

Crossing into Namanga was our easiest border crossing ever. Unfortunately, going into Arusha was a gong show, and didn't bode well for the new crew. At 117 paved kilometers, it was meant to be an e...

Tour d'Afrique Update 23: Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

There's something so wonderful about riding alone. It's also quite nice to have a fellow rider. Even a few riders can be fun. Riding in a convoy is a new form of hell.

Riding into Nairob...

Tour d'Afrique Update 22: Is That a Supermarket?!?

I woke up this morning and prepared myself for the best ride ever - paved hills! I joked with Jim, one of our fastest cyclists, and a sectional from the Lonely Planet, that all he would be seeing w...

Tour d'Afrique Update 21: Feels Like Civilization...

It appears that Ethiopia is not the only place where I'm destined to
get sick. Or any of us, for that matter. We left camp and the roads
deteriorated immediately. The da...

Tour d'Afrique Update 20: Kenya tell me how you really feel?

The aftermath of the Northern Kenyan desert rain was intense. I
walked around in my sandals that were so thickly caked in mud it was
like wearing foam mattresses on my feet. W...

Tour d'Afrique Update 19: Floods in my tent and fire in my heart

Getting into Kenya, while a huge relief for all of us, was not an easy
task. It was only 86km, but through headwinds on corrugated dirt
roads with loads of hills. I was unhapp...

Tour d'Afrique Update 18: Out of the Frying Pan and into the Fire

In camp in Yabello I had a chat with Wondie, our local fixer. He was
almost in an apologetic state. He was explaining to me how many times
he had tried to explain to the villa...

Tour d"Afrique Update 17 - One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Upon leaving Addis, I spent two days on the truck. Riding on the
truck is never a good option. It's slow, hot, and filled with sick
people. I was anxious to get off.&nbs...

Tour d"Afrique Update 16 - Addis Ababa - our rest day.

We got up in the morning and rode - I hung out with Erin in the back
as she was sweeping that day. We rode past so many tej fields. Tej
is the grain ...

Tour d'Afrique Update 15- Just Gorge-ous

The Gorge.

We knew it was coming, but there's still a lot of nervousness when you know that you are about to do the biggest climb of the trip. Over 22k...

Tour d'Afrique Update 14 - The Ups & Downs of the Road

The rest day in Bahir Dar was a true rest day. I sat back, ate injera, did email and drank about 6 of Ethiopia's amazing juices - they are layered drinks, usually...

Tour d'Afrique Update 13 - Ethiopia the Friendly

If there is anything anyone can actually learn from my natterings, let it be this: Please, when you are in a third world country, don't just go around handing out...

Tour d'Afrique Update 12 - The Children of the Sorghum

A little fyi - These emails are getting harder to get through, due tovery basic dial-up in Ethiopia mixed with frequent power outages. Infour days I'll be in Addi...

Tour d'Afrique Update 11 - Into Ethiopia

From Camp Alfonse to Gedaref we traveled 136 km straight into a brutal easterly headwind. It seemed like most of the day my odometer was stuck around 12. I ...

Tour d'Afrique Update 10 - I'M ON THE HEADWINDS TO HELL

Leaving Khartoum was quite the trip. Traffic was everywhere, sometimes three deep on the road headed straight for us. We were run off a few times. The...

Tour d'Afrique Update 9: Dar-for-what?

Did you know that there are over 2 million internally displaced people in Sudan? Today we went to a refugee camp where we gave mosquito nets to dozens of orphans ...

Tour d'Afrique Update 8 - No Cars to Khartoum

We rode 154km today. I rushed to get out with someone. I've stopped leaving with the racers because I don't want to freak out my ankle, and since they leave last, I don't want to be stu...

Tour d'Afrique Update 7 - Riding through the Valley of Death

If you are looking for blog updates, it will be awhile. I have yet to get blogspot to not crash a computer here in the Sudan.

We turned down a road, and suddenly the Nubian d...

Tour d'Afrique Update 6 - Brand Nubian

So I was in Sudan, but not able to ride. You can't imagine how torturous it is, to see everyone come in, utterly wasted from the road, utterly amazed by the beauty of the land, and for you to...

Tour d"Afrique Update 5 - Desert Storm

We woke up this morning to a storm so intense it took a large amount of planning to pull down my tent without it blowing away. In fact, one person's tent did blow away, and he spent ten minutes ch...

Tour d'Afrique Update 4 - Life on the Nile

Through hazy eyes I looked out on the mists covering the rice paddy fields, incense trees peeking out from the blue grey. We had just had a breakfast of falafel on Pita with tabouleh, then another...

Tour d'Afrique Update 3 - Deee - Luxor

Six straight days, almost 700km, and finally we're back into green. It's amazing how revitalizing it is, just to have colour again. the vast terrain of mustard yellow was beautiful, but I now know ...

Tour d'Afrique Update 2 - Sittin' by the Red Sea

There is something so wonderful about getting rid of the grit of the Nubian desert. Not that swimming in the Red Sea wasn't a good quick fix, but you can pretty much float sitting up in the water, ...

Tour d'Afrique Update 1 - Off to the Valley of the Kings

Tomorrow we're off. A 5:30 am start to begin our 6 day trek to Luxor - the Valley of the Kings.

This message will be a little more coherent as I think I"m finally getting past the jet-lag. ...

Tour d'Afrique Race / Expedition

First email from Miranda Huron our Brodie Elan sponsored rider in the Tour d'Afrique, 11k+ kilometre race from Cairo to Cape Town.

I'm very sleepy, so | hope this message makes sense. I'm ...

Braun's Bicycles in Guelph, ON - Brodie project bike

Glen at Braun's Bicycles in Guelph built up this Brodie Section 8 'woody project bike' for his customer Peter.

Custom Brodie Ti Bike

Christmas came early and Paul (owner of Cutting Edge Sports) has a brand new shiny custom-built Cruzado. FRAME Brodie Cruzado Custom Select 3/2.5 Ti FRONT FORK Manitou Minute Elite Absolute...

2008 Zealots in Ontario

Take a look at what our friends are up to in Ontario! Ubike TV has been putting one of our new Zealots through the wringer over the last few months, and have posted their thoughts on their website : w...

Newest Bro

Brodie Bicycles is stoked to welcome Thomas Brass to the fold. A fresh 17 years of age, our newest "BRO" hails from Victoria, BC, where he started building and hitting his own jumps and ramps at ...

Brodie Commitment To Recycle

During the past year, 2007, Brodie Bikes' commitment to be as environment friendly as possible gave the following result.

Diverted 23 cubic yards of recyclable material from landfill

This ...

Paul Brodie's Choo Choo Cycle

My latest projects are 1919 OHC Excelsior Boardtrack racers and 1894 Roper Steambikes. I started making things out of metal when I was 12, and never stopped. My life has alternated between motorcyc...

Retro Brodie's

Retro Bike #1 Hello!! ...Nice to see a retro section for my favourite bike!!!....Here are pics of my 1986??? brodie model unknown...mostly original spec parts with a few retr...

The Ultimate Commuter: Internal 8 Speed

Ola. Say hello to our little friend. The Ocho was built with an eye for simple functionality. The eight speed internally geared Alfine...

DO YOU HAVE A PIECE OF BRODIE HISTORY?

Email or send us your old photos of your retro brodie or ride stories involving your beloved ride and if we use your photo / story we�ll send you some brodie schwag. We can�t wait to see those snapsho...

DEAR BRODIE.... THE BRODIE AFFAIR

How do I begin to explain the role Brodie has played in my life? The love affair with my Brodie Quantum began immediately when I chipped in with my parents to receive it for my 15th birthday. Wit...

DIE HARD BRODIE FAN

I'd like to share my Brodie story with you.

I know nothing about bikes. Hence, it was somewhat surprising to both me and my friends when I decided to start cycling to work back in ?98. I? had a ...