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When Andrew Ritchie designed the Brompton, it was a direct refusal of planned obsolescence. In many ways, that was the marketing, because if there was one thing Ritchie resisted, it was marketing itself. Brompton is a bike built to last a lifetime, maybe several. It is engineered to be continually repairable, a durable argument against...
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Sometimes the way we select our guest roasters is a long, winding road loaded with autobiography. There’s a habit here of never leaving for a trip without researching every coffee stop along the way, and most trips tend to be bicycle tours. There are few worse ways to welcome a fresh, dewy morning than with...
If there’s one thing we love more than anything else at Pedaal, it’s our cherished customers. Great coffee makes a close second. So when one of our lovely regulars raved to us about this new (to us) superb Canadian coffee roastery, we knew we had to check them out! Down the Rabbit Hole Enter: Rabbit...
Coffee is one of the most ritualized things in daily life and also one of the least examined. Most cups are chosen on autopilot, ordered by habit, brand loyalty, or whatever feels familiar before the first sip. But the unexamined life is not worth living, said Socrates. We’re not sure whether Socrates drank coffee, but...
If there’s one thing colder than a prairie winter, it’s realizing the bus back from the Rev Nightclub only runs once an hour. I was a philosophy student in Edmonton then — still riding my bike through snowdrifts, cross-country skiing in Goldbar Park, and, truth be told, not much of a coffee drinker. I drank...
When I first landed back in Toronto with a fresh box of beans from Cape Coffee, I had one thought in mind: “How on earth did this tiny Newfoundland roaster manage to blow my mind more than some of the big names we carry here?” I had been sampling what passes for “boutique” dark roasts...
At Pedaal, we love discovering and supporting top-tier coffee roasters. In our first year, we imported beans from Fjord in Berlin, April in Copenhagen, and Anchored in Halifax, just to name a few. With recent changes like Trump’s tariffs, we’ve been focusing even more on Canadian roasters and those from free-trade partners in the UK...
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