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Alan shows visitors the paint booth and special Scholz-designed powdercoat dispenser system (still taken from 2006 video clip, Part 4).
MANY VISITORS to the Bike Friday factory take advantage of a tour to see exactly how a phone call or email leads, 6 weeks later, to a neatly packed suitcase landing on their doorstep. Some can't make the journey, so these videos are the next best thing to a personal visit.
MOVIE CLIPS: downloadable versions and on YouTube account 'bikefriday' and
Download free Quicktime 7 player for Mac | Windows).
2007
BF Virtual Factory Tour '07: The Faces from the Factory
A wander around the Bike Friday Factory meeting some of the staff and learning about what they do. Shot by the Galfromdownunder with a digital camera
YouTube Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Complete Quicktime version (49 Mb - takes a heck of a while to load)
The Three Scholz Bros hear, speak and see no evil in small wheels! From left: Hanz, co-founder/Bike Friday head designer (Pocket bikes, air bikes, recumbent, tandems); Ian, owner of Bikerev.com, which makes the BF TravelTrailer, and Alan, CEO/co-founder/designer (tandems, Crusoe, Petites).
 2006 Take a factory tour inside the mind and machinations of co-founder Alan Scholz, because nobody says it or does it better than he! The Tour Group Link to the article and movie "Bike Gurus: the Owner, the Loaner, the Skeptic" who comprised the tour group for this video. Shot by the Galfromdownunder with a digital camera The whole thing (26 Mb, for fast connections only) Part 1 (3.9 Mb) | Sound only (248 Kb) Employee garage, break room, showroom Part 2 (4.2 Mb) | Sound only (152 Kb) Pre-owned bikes, Historical Fridays Part 3 (6.9 Mb) | Sound only (204 kb) Prototyping, Special parts, inventory, Folding bike development Part 4 (6.5 Mb) | Sound only (188 Kb) Shipping, Just In Time process, Production Line Part 5 (4.6 Mb) | Sound only (148 Kb) Why use steel, Petite Fridays, sneak peak at the new recumbent * (For the tech heads: I unfortunately used Apple imovie rather than Quicktime Pro to make web streaming versions of these movies, and it does not seem to offer a 'fast start' option when you compress it, as at Jan 2006). OTHER LINKS OF INTEREST Company history The condensed version Bike Friday Boosters Patrons who helped (and continue to help) get Bike Friday rolling A peek behind the swinging door Photo gallery of production line and some intriguing employee profiles |