Over the Top Radio with Jeff Cleary of Cleary Bicycles

Jeff Cleary - creator of Cleary Bikes - joins us this afternoon to discuss the company's wonderful kids bikes.  Far and away one of our favorite products at Interbike this year. A description of what Cleary Bikes is all about:

Cleary Bikes empower kids. A bike launches a little boy or girl into the world. He does not have to be a daredevil.  When a kid pushes off on his or her bike, rides to the mailbox, the store, the park or to school, he becomes actively engaged.  Not being led by the hand and blazing his own path, is independence!

Riding a bike should be fun.  It certainly shouldn’t be stressful or scary.  When we created Cleary Bikes we wanted to thrill kids.  Riding a Cleary Bike is truly a joyful experience.  They roll smoothly, they’re quiet, and they look sleek.  We see our bikes as fun tools, not toys.  Kids know the difference because the quality that distinguishes our bikes is evident in every facet of their construction.  It can be felt in every pedal stroke.  

We know these things because we have been riding bikes since we first threw a leg over the banana seat on a second-hand Huffy Dragster.  We pedaled on through mountain bikes, road bikes, cross bikes, time trial bikes - and then bikes for our kids.  And that's when it became clear the kids needed something better.