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The HandleBar

The Detroit original and World's first 16-passenger Pedal Pub. We operate 10 pedal pubs with electric assist (up to 160 people) on 2-hour tours of Detroit, 7 days a week. Bring your own bar, listen to your own music and have a VIP experience for your next office outing, birthday/bachelorette party or any other excuse you can think up! Trust the pros, since 2012! If you don’t have a big group, don’t worry; we also do individual seat tours. Check out the videos below in the additional information section, view the details on our website or shoot us a text or email and let’s roll!

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Pre-Orders Open for Custom Gramm Handlebar Rolls

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Gramm Tourpacking just opened a short pre-order window for custom Berlin-made Handlebar Rolls, and buyers can purchase one in a dizzying array of more than 40 colors and fabrics through May 5th. Learn more about the Gramm Handlebar Roll and its clever quick-release attachment system here…

Berlin’s Gramm Tourpacking just opened a short pre-order window for their Handlebar Roll, which is now available in an impressively broad range of colors and fabrics. Notably, the bag features a unique quick-release mechanism that affixes to your handlebars and enables the bag to be securely locked into place over rough terrain and removed in a jiffy at the end of the day’s ride. Its dual roll-end design expands to offer up to 12 liters of water-resistant storage thanks to an internal liner, and an optional accessory bar provides handy, obstruction-free mounting space for lights, computers, and more.

In use, the Gramm Handlebar Bag can fit 8-12 liters’ worth of gear (that’s roughly an ultralight tent, an air mat, and a sleeping bag) and measures around 500mm in width. It has a diameter of 180mm and weighs between 360 and 400 grams, depending on fabric. The mounting system weighs 175 grams, and the optional accessory bar adds 45 grams. It’s designed to fit 25.4 and 31.8mm handlebars but isn’t suitable for carbon. Purchase includes a pair of Gramm straps for stabilization and lashing on extra gear.

You can pre-order a Gramm Handlebar Bag for €229+ ($245+) through 11:59 p.m. local time on Sunday, May 5th. Bags are expected to ship before the end of the month. Find full details over at Gramm-Tourpacking.com , and be sure to check out our in-depth “Inside Gramm Tourpacking” piece below to meet founder Kristin Heil and her small team of talented makers.

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E-bike tour guide pedals Yellowstone, Gardiner rides

BILLINGS – In the winter, Jay O’Connor used to feed 55 horses that in the summer provided horseback rides for fishing or hunting guests.

Now O’Connor owns 40 e-bikes that he parks in the garage for the winter and ignores.

As the owner of Big Sky Ebike Tours and Rentals in Gardiner since 2020, O’Connor said he’s “living the dream” guiding cycling tours in and around Yellowstone National Park. After all, where else can cyclists possibly see bison, elk, bighorn sheep, bears, foxes, coyotes, deer and a variety of hot pools, fumaroles and geysers in one trip, not to mention spectacular views of the surrounding mountains?

O’Connor’s guided rides inside Yellowstone include a 17-mile trip around the base of Bunsen Peak on a gravel service road closed to public vehicles. From Old Faithful, his Geyser Basin Tour pedals to Morning Glory Pool along the Firehole River and then on to Biscuit Basin. Shuttling the bikes he can then skip on to Firehole Lake Drive and ride Fountain Freight Road to Grand Prismatic Spring.

“I don’t do anything on the roads at all,” he said, instead focusing on getting his guests away from crowds.

Last weekend, with the 50 miles of highway from Mammoth Hot Springs to West Yellowstone open to bicycle traffic only, O’Connor was leading tours from Mammoth to Norris Geyser Basin, a 38-mile round trip.

Outside the park, one of his most popular tours travels down the Old Yellowstone Trail to the red-colored rock uplift of Devils Slide and on to Yankee Jim Canyon where the Yellowstone River is forced into a narrow gorge. The return ride stops at Yellowstone Hot Springs for a soothing soak.

“That’s a really popular ride for us because there is so much wildlife in the basin,” O’Connor said.

Costs range from $175 for the Bunsen Peak ride to $275 for the Geyser Basin tour. Four people is the minimum for a tour, otherwise an additional fee is tacked on. Bike rentals are $50 an hour to $100 for a full day.

Up and down

Much like the trails and roads he rides, O’Connor’s business has seen some ups and downs since it was launched.

Opening during the COVID pandemic was a “kick in the teeth,” but then participation in outdoor activities grew because indoor venues were closed. That inaugural year was followed by a solid summer of growth before the historic 2022 flood. The raging waters of the Gardner and Yellowstone rivers washed out the nearby North Entrance road to Yellowstone. Gardiner businesses were suddenly isolated at a dead end. Last year, tours rebounded after the route was reopened, and so far this year O’Connor is quickly filling his summer tours.

“My primary demographic is families and people over the age of 40,” he said.

Feeling young again

E-bikes are also a personal choice for O’Connor. He had a hip replacement last year and was still able to pedal 20 miles a day with the motorized assistance the cycles provide. His first ride on an e-bike made him feel like he was 20 again, propelling him to start the tour and rental service.

“This business wouldn’t work with a traditional bike,” he said.

That’s because when touring, he uses a microphone that connects to earbuds each rider wears. This way he can tell his tour group what power level of assistance he’s at and what gear the cycle is in, so everyone stays at relatively the same pace.

On traditional bicycles, the group would likely be more spread out depending on the rider’s ability, or lack thereof.

Most of O’Connor’s tours are under 25 miles, so the bikes’ batteries last for the entire ride. On longer trips, like in the spring when he goes from Mammoth to Norris and back, he carries an extra battery.

On one of those spring rides into the park, O’Connor came around a corner to find a newly awakened black bear only 10 feet off the road.

“He was groggy,” he said. “He must have just crawled out of hibernation.”

Rather than fleeing from the pack of riders, the bear ambled over to a boulder and curled up for a nap. That’s not something most bike riders will encounter, providing a charge unlike the one e-bikers may typically need.

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Digitally Sign the E-Waiver BEFORE you arrive

EVERY SINGLE rider must digitally sign a HandleBar Bike Bar Waiver. You will be asked to show your email confirmation and ID when boarding.  If you cannot locate your confirmation email you will need to re-do a waiver so make sure you have it handy on the day of the tour.

INSTRUCTIONS

Click the link above and fill out the waiver BEFORE you arrive .  After you arrive and once everyone is boarded onto the bike and situated your BarHandler (driver) will announce it’s “waiver time”.  We will go around the bar one by one to check completion. It’s super quick and each and every person needs to show your BarHandler 2 things:

1. The e-mail you received saying your HandleBar Bike Bar Waiver was successfully completed. Open this e-mail and show your BarHandler your phone. We will just be looking for your name on the e-mail. TIP: If you don’t see the e-mail check your spam or junk folder. Once and a while customers report the e-mail going there, but after thousands of waivers we have never had a single case of an e-mail not going through.

2. Your license (so we can see your name matches the liability waiver)

If you can’t locate your confirmation email you’ll need to re-fill out the waiver so make sure everyone in your group has the confirmation email and is ready to show it.  If you guys are prepared, we can probably start your tour early!  No matter what though, we cannot extend the end time regardless of when we start.

DURATION TO COMPLETE

1-2 minutes

PHONE DIED? WORRIED YOU WON’T HAVE SERVICE? DON’T OWN A CELLPHONE?

Option 1: Just use a friend’s phone! You can send the waiver to any e-mail address. The key point for us is that you’ve filled out a waiver and the name on the waiver matches your ID. We do not necessarily care that the e-mail address used is yours – whatever e-mail you want to use is fine as long as you can access it while on the bike before the tour to show us you got the confirmation e-mail.

Option 2: Fill out the waiver on the day of the tour from a desktop computer and print out the confirmation e-mail that has your name on it and bring it with you.

Option 3: Fill out the HandleBar Bike Bar Waiver on the day of the tour and just send a screen dump of the confirmation e-mail with your name on it to a friend that does have a cellphone.

WHY NOT PAPER

We do not do paper waivers anymore for several reasons

1. We want you to start your tour on time : Electronic waivers have proven to be MUCH quicker because people weren’t filling out the paper waiver correctly and our BarHandlers were having to give back the paper waiver to complete missing portions, delaying the tour. With the electronic waivers you can’t submit them until it is completely filled out.

2. Printing/Storing/Filing 900 waivers a day at times was a huge waste of paper and time, not to mention bad for the environment.

ADVANCE NOTICE OF THE PROCESS

The person who books the tour is sent an e-mail with the link to the HandleBar Bike Bar Waiver. If the person who booked your tour didn’t send you a link – no worries; it’s quick to fill out and only takes 1-2minutes; you can easily do it while you’re waiting to take off and others are getting their coolers situated, etc.

Questions? Contact Us.