The Hawley Blog

2008 has come and gone here at the Hawley Company. We’d like to take a little time out of our busy nap schedules to thank our wonderful vendors and even more wonderfuller dealers and the wonderfullest patrons of aforementioned dealers who keep the Hawley party train running down the distributor tracks. I just had a [...]

Let’s take a trip, a trip back in time to a stuffy high school classroom where the Blog, manacled to a desk stares at a multiple choice test, sweat on the brow, Snuggle bear on the mind and nary a chance of success, praying to the SAT gods for a quick and painless death. Now [...]

Saints be praised! the Blog has survived another tumultuous Christmas season with all limbs attached. The Blog hopes you (and by you, I mean the insufferable wretches who crawl out of your hovels to crank up your 1994 Compaq laptops and over a ice cold mug of 3 day old coffee made from runoff water [...]

Shameless plug for a great bunch of folk from the Blog’s hometown. Please visit their website and have a look around: GLOBAL BIKE! Sadly, they do NOT sell EPMD cassettes or french onion dip, which is what the Blog is craving as of this posting. Toodles!

The Blog isn’t, but if you are, then check out MTB Review’s “Light Shootout” for more than enough information on lights, lumens, Tesla coils and intergalactic zepellins. Sadly, they provide ZERO info on the Blog’s Princeton Tec Switchback. Nurtz! Oh well, if it’s good enough for this guy, it’s good enough for the blog! Got [...]

Today is the 23rd of December. That means if you’re hoping to get your Christmas goodies before the 25th, you’re paddling upstream in a chicken wire canoe. The commercial package delivery system can only do so much. However, not wanting to play favorites as the Hawley Company loves all of its shippers (The Blog hates [...]

There are some strange things afoot around the world this holiday season. Very strange things. And as we all know, the epicenter of strangeness is Japan. But what the average non-cycling industry yahoo may consider strange, we who dwell within the cracks and crevices of bicycling sub-cultures consider innovative, creative and unnecessarily robotic (a.k.a. “Short [...]

(Santa needs a helmet for Christmas, perhaps an Eleven 81 Pothole at a reasonable price? Eh?)Friday before Christmas is like…uh… Friday before Christmas! Slim pickins as far as content is concerned! The blog offers its humblest apologies. Its readers have come to expect a hearty five course banquet of cycling tomfoolery, not a wretched barf [...]

When the first bicycle parts distributor was started, Colonel Karate’s Widgets, Saddles, Ointments, Tonics and Bashguards, a coconut tree was planted in honor of the momentous occasion. Colonel Karate later renamed his business Widgets, Saddles, Ointments, Tonics, Bashguards and Shredded Coconut. Since that arboreal symbiosis of bicycle and tree, distributors past and present have planted [...]

A quick journey through the hallowed Hawley halls reveals several of the cogs who make up our distribution machine. Let’s meet them, shall we? Nathaniel “Spanish Armada” Hawthorne: Shipping Department Radio Technician, former co-director of the SETI program. Nate brings his 30 years of experience searching the celestial canopy for radio signals from distant galaxies [...]