The Swift Industries Blog

2nd annual TOUGH & TENDER project - Swift Indus...

Tough & Tender A LITERARY AND PHOTOGRAPHIC PROJECT TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S EXPERIENCE OF THE BICYCLE Hosted by  Swift Industries Women’s experience of cycling is not celebrated enough in bicycle communities....

Post Car Travel Agency: A Pop-Up bicycle travel...

Post Car Travel Agency: Announcing a ten day travel agency planning door-to-door bicycle and transit adventures originating in the San Francisco Bay Area. We will provide all the functions of...

Behind the Scenes with Pedaler's Fair - Swift I...

  The Pedaler’s Fair is being organized by a dedicated team of three, each passionate about the bicycle and the local cycling community. Sonia McBride is an apparel designer whose company,...

Oregon Manifest: Donkelope Bikes + Swift Indust...

Oregon Manifest 2011 - Swift Industries

Swift Industries will join Donkeylope Bicycles from Bellingham, WA in this year’s Oregon Manifest. Greg Heath is an amazing crafter, and we were totally smitten when he asked us to...

Tough & Tender: flaming wheeled glory - Swift I...

People ask if the trip was good. They mean it — they’re genuinely interested. They want to relate, to understand. And so they ask questions about how many miles we...

Tough & Tender: Seattle III - Swift Industries

It’s midnight, it’s pouring, we’re pumping up the Eastlake hill when a girl in a wolf hat flies down the other way and gives us a soul-shivering howl. We croon...

Tough & Tender: Why I Love the Bicycle - Swift ...

Catherine Blake Smith I get so many ideas when I’m riding. But it’s not the movement of my legs that powers thought. It’s the rush of the wind, the changing...

Tough & Tender: South Carolina - Swift Industries

To get around town during my college days in Madison, Wisconsin, I rescued an old bike from the metal salvage pile at my childhood recycling center. It held up pretty...

Tough & Tender: Portland II - Swift Industries

In the summer of 2007, several months after having sold my car, I finally discovered that my bicycle could transport me further than the mile or two between work and...

Tough & Tender: Seattle II - Swift Industries

Expectations Will Hold You Back After following the Tour de France and the Giro Donne online for two weeks, I found it jarring to look at a picture of myself...

Tough & Tender: Big Sur - Swift Industries

My relationship with bicycles is far less complicated than other relationships in my life. I love my bikes. My bikes are my transportation, exercise, therapist, entertainment, fashion prop, shopping bag, and...