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 Check the Bike Friday Event Calendar for upcoming tours and rides from these and other organizations. Note: Many of these tours are low-cost or non-profit oriented, and have firm cancellation policies. Travel and trip delay insurance is a must. Welcome page: www.bikefriday.com/fridayfriendly |
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 AGILE COMPASS dynamically customizes your tour every week from May through July in southern France or northern Italy (plus September-October in northern Italy). Michael Khaw on his Air Friday. Michael says: I've done the Giro delle Valle Monregalesi and La Dieci Castelli rides in Piedmont and the Granfondo del Prosecco in the Veneto on my Friday, drawing quite a bit of attention from the Italian participants - at the starting line, when I keep up with the pack on climbs, and especially when I coast past them on downhills! |
 THE BICYCLE ADVENTURE CLUB (BAC) is a very large non-profit touring club headed up by Bike Friday owner Bill Deverell. BAC tour guide Chuck Shinn rides a New World Tourist. He says "The quick packing of the Bike Friday and its good performance were the deciding factors that pushed me to finally buy my own Bike Friday after 10 years of going on annual trips with other members using them" If it's good enough for BAC presidents and tour guides, it's perfect for you! |
 BIKEANDTHELIKE Phone 1-877-776-6572. Suzie and Roger Knable started leading rides back in the 80's for their local bike club, and soon after were elected into leadership of the 2,000 member organization. They've since conducted over 130 week-long tours, suitable even for first-time recreational cyclists. As a small family-run business with low overheads, they can offer the most reasonable trip prices possible which include their personal hosting, support, quality lodging, and most meals. VOTED "One of the 50 best state rides in the U.S." by Bicycling Magazine, 2004. Suzi and Roger own and ride their Bike Fridays on every trip. |
 CICLISMO CLASSICO: A favorite of Bike Friday Club of North Carolina leader and Pocket Rocket Pro owner and BF Club of North Carolina leader Juliann Tenney, this company specializes in tours of Italy and New England. She's done the Tour of Southern Italy, voted the Best Tour in Western Europe 2004 by Outside Magazine. "Bill, and I are on our second Fridays," says Juli. "Bill likes his Friday better than any bike he's ever had and has no interest in even trying another! When we were with Ciclismo on a trip last year a group of us stopped by an Italian bike shop. The fellow who owned the shop tried to buy the bike from me for more than I had paid for it originally, four years earlier! An Italian speaker in the group explained to him that though his offer was quite generous, I needed the bike for transportation." Customer Trip report: The Galfromdownunder bikes across Italy with Ciclismo Classico |
 CYCLE GREECE is the only bicycle tour company located in Greece with road and mountain bike tours covering all regions of Greece. Co-founder Colleen McGuire believes she owns the only Bike Friday in the entire country. As a tour leader, she zips around the islands on her shiny orange Pocket Crusoe, emblazoned with the name "Cycling Goddess" (a nod to the ancients). Her BF passion inspired the creation of a Bike Friday Greece tour exclusively for BF owners. Read about Greece from the saddle in this evocative short story by Colleenm published by Seal Press. The biggest source of people looking at my site come not from Yahoo, not from Google, but from Bike Friday. It surprises me every day I look at my stats and consistently BF is number one... - Colleen McGuire, Cycle Greece |
 CYCLE JAPAN by FRIDAY! |
 Cycle Indonesia (www.cycleindonesia.com.au) Indonesian Cultural Communications (ICC) offers a 27-day inaugural tour on the island of Sulawesi, commencing January 2009. The director of ICC is New World Tourist owner Colin Freestone. Colin has lived and worked in Indonesia on and off for 38 years. He organized over 30 educational and training programs in Indonesia for Australian universities and operates an educational management consultancy company in Jakarta. He is a fluent speaker of the country’s national language and competent in Indonesian culture. Colin has ridden in Indonesia since 1992 and will be leading the Sulawesi trip with his NWT, which he's owned since 2002. He’s also a keen swimmer and is a trainee Yoga teacher. Whet your appetite for Sulawesi on a Friday here! |
CYCLE OREGON - attracts more than 2000 riders each year to its week-long challenging tour of Oregon, that's been called "The Best Bike Ride in America".
Customer Trip report: See BF staff stories of the Weekend and week-long events, including the Bike Friday Homecoming. |
 El Tour: www.bikemexico.com Guided tours in small groups of 8 to 10 people, loaded and self-supported, going inn-to-inn. Flexible, pay as you go accommodation and meals. Basil and Alix like nothing better than to share their passion for Mexico with a diverse group of enthusiastic cyclists. Basil says: We've had many repeat clients on Bike Fridays. One in particular, Phil, clearly demonstrated to us that a BF is as good as any bike by keeping up in one of the fastest groups we've ever had (included a former Canadian masters champ and his much younger friend who was always keen to hammer). Phil kept up on his BF and even set the pace on occasion, and let's just say that Phil was no spring chicken! Since then we've even had people onBF's on our super challenging tour in Oaxaca (bringback the "Killer" rating says my friend, client and BF owner Kevin). Frankly, I have nothing but respect for anyone who survives that tour, never mind a 68 year old man on a BF ... http://www.bikemexico.com/flybike Tours of the Chiapas region are run by Basil's friends Ursula and Joel of Los Pinguinos Bike Tours. Customer Trip Report: The Galfromdownunder did a Los Pinguinos tour. |
Customer trip report: LAOS on a Freedom Friday Grasshopper tours are particularly interested in Bike Fridays because they can use smaller vehicles for support. Having just completed a two week Vietnam tour with Grasshopper on my NWT, I can vouch for their knowledge of backroads and their commitment to eco-friendly tourism. The riding is nothing short of fantastic and the interaction with the Vietnamese in small villages is special. Many people I spoke to before going to Vietnam warned me against riding because of the traffic. Grasshopper have the routes and the expertise to meet that challeng - Megan, Sydney, July 2008 |
 International Bicycle Fund Bike Tours - www.ibike.org offers tours of Africa and Asia led by New World Tourist owner David Mozer. From the ibike website: David Mozer is the founder and director of Ibike. He is an African studies specialist and accomplished bicyclist. He has appeared on National Public Radio, the Voice of America and the Voice of Kenya discussing Africa, and is the director of the International Bicycle Fund where he works on rural development, environmental issues, urban planning and cross-cultural understanding. David is the author of 'Bicycling In Africa' and numerous articles on transportation and travel. |
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