Custom Step Through Road Bike with Z-Couplers
We loved hearing from Jan, for whom we made a custom, step-through travel road bike. This bike has z-couplers, allowing the bike to be taken apart for travel. These couplers integrate so smoothly into the frame, they are almost [...]
Master Builders Bike Show – Bentonville AR – Sept 16-17, 2023
We invite you to come visit us at the Master Bike Builders Show in Bentonville Arkansas this September. We will have bikes, components, and clothing on display as well as a fleet of demo bikes to ride. This is [...]
Chris Lloyd Gets the Lead Out for Over 20 Years on Custom Zinn Bikes
By Lennard Zinn Lennard with Chris and his custom Zinn hardtail mountain bike Chris Lloyd fits the profile of the median Zinn Cycles customer in stature but definitely not in his usage of his Zinn bikes. Where [...]
RAGBRAI Adventures on a Clydesdale E-Bike
By: Kip Williams I’m a 64-year-old, 6’ 5” 250LB sized cyclist from St. Louis, Missouri. I have put quite a few miles on various bicycles over the years and am now enjoying a Clydesdale . My ride is a [...]
Colorado Western Slope Gravel Ride with Lennard Zinn on October 7, 2023
Come join Lennard Zinn and friends for a fun, 50-mile gravel bike ride on Colorado's Western Slope! E-bike riders are welcome to join. Fall is one of the best times of year to ride gravel on the western slope of [...]
Fixing Flats: How to Fix a Tubeless Bike Tire
Wondering how to patch a tubeless tire? If you flat a tubeless tire while on a ride, you have three options for dealing with it so that you can keep riding: 1) Install an inner tube; 2) Inject pressurized [...]
Partnership with Roan Creek Bikeworks on Western Slope of Colorado
Zinn Cycles and Clydesdale Bikes are proud to partner with Roan Creek Bikeworks, a bicycle shop located on Colorado's Western Slope in De Beque. Roan Creek Bikeworks Roan Creek Bikeworks provides demos, featuring two Clydesdale bikes, the [...]
Lightweight Custom Ebike for 5’4″ rider
A few months ago a really nice woman stopped by our shop to chat about e-bikes. She was 5'4" and petite and had been struggling to find an ebike that fit her that was not super heavy. Most of [...]
Upright Riding Positions
By Lennard Zinn If there is one thing that we at Zinn Cycles are experts at, it is building bikes with the handlebar high above the ground. That is a function of the fact that so many of our [...]
Designing a super strong carbon fork
After three years of extensive testing, redesign, and further refinement, we at Zinn Cycles and Clydesdale Bicycles are proud to announce our revolutionary Zinn Duro fork. We have long awaited a carbon fork that is tough enough for the [...]
Custom Anodized Titanium E-Bike
We just finished up this really cool E-bike for a musician in San Fransisco. It's a titanium custom ebike build for a 6'6" rider. This was one of the few occasions where the rider's wife convinced him to upgrade [...]
E-Bikes Benefit Health, Fitness, and Rehabilitation
When I built myself an e-bike and started riding it, I was coming off of 35 years of racing bikes and cross-country skis. At age 55, I was still winning lots of bike races until I suddenly developed a heart [...]