News / Fairdale R+D

  Hareraiser Lunch BreakOur Hareraiser DJ can do a lot of things. One of them is to clear the mind of computer screens during a long lunch Break. Here's Taj having a cruise at the City of Bellingham's public Civic jumps and telling us that he's busy with R&D testing.
  Taj’s Custom Elevator BuildMy personal build of our Elevator frameset. I went for the very on-trend silver parts kit look that turned out to be even more "on-trend" than I expected, as it seemed like...
  Research and Design From Years AgoBack in the simpler times of 2014 (when Mongoose only made rollerblades), we had the idea to make some bikes out of wood. Fender even sent us a bass to make a bike out of, and it even worked (for a few minutes). Leif showed up in his jumpsuit and...
  Fairdale Bikes Research and Design Front Derailleur Repurposing Division: Shifting Your PerceptionThe bicycle industry has deemed shifting the front chainrings on your bicycle to be unnecessary. The front derailleur has been declared dead. The Fairdale R&D team has the vision to see that the front derailleur still has plenty of life left in it.
  Driver-less Bicycle and half a decade of innovationWith e-bikes blurring the lines between bicycles and motorcycles we thought that maybe we are approaching automated cycling from the wrong direction. Perhaps the problem with bicycles is not the pedaling so much as it is the steering. Our Robotic Bike Driver® easily attaches to your tandems driver’s seat-post and will take care of all steering duties.
  The Stud BikeFairdale is excited to announce that the first bike from our 2015 lineup has arrived early. The Stud is exactly what it sounds like it would be, the toughest and most bad ass bike we have ever made.
  Fairdale R+DFairdale Bikes presents a little insight into its highly advanced R&D department. Aerodynamic 2×4 bikes and Fender Bass Bicycle are all put to the test.