The Bike Friday All-Day

Bosch & Bike Friday “Project BFB”

Bosch Engineering meets Bike Friday Craftsmanship.

Built to go all day on all roads, traveling with you on the bike and off the bike.

(Coming out February 2025)

Bike Friday invented the first suitcase travel bike in 1992 with the tag line “Performance That Packs.” Up to now it was thought impossible to have an ultralight Bosch travel bike. We are proud to announce the new Bike Friday Bosch performance that packs!

Bike Friday was founded 32 years ago by two brothers (Alan and Hanz Scholz) who loved riding high quality bikes, racing on the weekends, bike touring for vacation and living car lite. They experienced the difficult trials and tribulations of traveling with their bikes. After waiting for years to see if someone would solve the bike travel problems they decided to try themselves. The goal was a custom size and high quality ride that was easy to travel with. The Bike Friday was born! With encouragement from their dentist friend they put a small ad in Bicycling Magazine with the title “No joke and about time!”.

Bike Friday is now led by Hanna Scholz (Alan Scholz’s oldest daughter). She grew up in the business and loves building bikes in Oregon that travel the world.

Why we decided to invent this remarkable bike in 2024

Bike Friday is always focused on designing and building products that customers want and no one else is offering in the way Bike Friday can. As an established bike brand of 32 years Bike Friday was one of the early adopters for E-assist as our customers kept asking for it. We originally tried going with a proprietary brand named Bionx and when they went out of business our customers had no options to keep their e-assist systems running. We only want to build bikes to last for decades so they must be repairable and maintainable. That’s why the next e-assist systems we developed for Bike Fridays were not proprietary, instead they were open source and a feature choice that could be taken on and off the frame of the bike, with out affecting the bike frames ability to be a great riding non-assisted bike.

However Bike Friday customers have been asking for a UL certified name brand e-assist Bike Friday. So we decided on doing a collaboration with Bosch. Bosch is a strong, respected and well established company that will reliably be around to support its products for many many years. Bosch is also a UL certified brand with an established supply chain for replacement parts in the USA, with strong documentation and customer service.

New Bike Friday Bosch with Performance That Packs for Commuting, Touring and All-road use

We are proud to present this Bike Friday Bosch bike that travels, a one of a kind bike with several features unlike any other bike in the world!

Like all Bike Fridays this bike is designed to fit and be efficient to ride for each customer. This new bike is built for exceptional multi-modal All-road Commuting and Touring with high quality e-assist. It folds in 20 seconds to easily stow in a car trunk, train, bus, closet or pack into a airline check-able suitcase (minus the battery).

Key Features

Three World Firsts:

• World’s Lightest Bosch E-bike: Only 33 lb with the SRAM Apex AXS component group making it ultra light. The standard 9spd Microshift bike starts at 37lbs (includes saddle and pedals).
• Travel Friendly: First Bosch bike to pack into an airline checkable suitcase with unmatched portability and travel savey. It folds up in 20 seconds to fit in a car trunk, train or bus and it can pack into a standard airline suitcase, making it perfect for multi-modal travel. While Bosch batteries can’t fly, they can be shipped by qualified shippers or rented at destinations with Bosch’s extensive retail network in many countries around the world.
• Innovative Design: First Bosch bike with an eccentric bottom bracket/motor design in the world. This allows the adjustment needed when installing a belt drive or single speed drive train.

Additional Key Features:

• Customizable: Like all Bike Fridays its built to your size and color specifications, options for various drivetrain setups including belt, Rohloff, singlespeed, and derailleur.
• Advanced Motor System: Powered by the latest Bosch Performance Line SX motor, delivering efficient and reliable performance.
• Exceptional Range: Compatible with Bosch’s 400wh and 545wh batteries, plus an additional 250Wh PowerMore battery.
• All-road capability: Current tire clearance is 20×2.2″ with fender clearance.
• Commuting and Touring: Comes with braze-ons to take most standard rear racks and front racks

Like all Bike Fridays they are custom made in Eugene, Oregon.

Tech Specs

• Motor: Bosch Performance Line SX
• Frame Options: Lightweight (190lb rider limit) and Standard (260lb rider limit) versions
• Drivetrain Compatibility: Belt, Rohloff, Alfine 8 speed, singlespeed, and rear derailleur options available
• Battery Compatibility: 400wh & 545wh batteries, plus 250Wh PowerMore battery
• Wheel size 406mm (standard 20 inch)
• Tire Clearance: 20″ x 2.2″ with fenders
• Brake Type: Disc brakes only
• Crank Length: Max 170mm

• Brompton Front Carrier Block Compatible!

Starting Complete Bike Designs

Base:

• 1×9 speed chain drive
• Flat bar (upgrade options available)
• Disc brake
• Bike weight 36lbs
• Max rider weight 260lbs
• Price: $5,200

Belt-Drive:

• 8 speed Alfine hub with Gates belt drive
• Flat bar (upgrade options available)
• Disc brake
• Bike weight 38 lbs
• Max rider weight 260lbs
• Price: $5,650

Ultralight (As seen at the 2024 MADE Show)

• 1×12 chain drive – SRAM Apex AXS wireless
• H-bar
• Disc Brake
• Bike weight 33lbs
• Max rider weight 190lbs (frame is lighter tubing than the above standard designs)
• Price: $7,300

We look forward to learning more about what are the most common component desires of the first customers. Your feedback will inform what additional component options we put together next for this one of a kind e-bike.

The MADE Show Bosch Bike Friday was featured on the Radavist, read more HERE!

Pre-Order Now:

First 10 bikes will begin rolling out in February 2025!

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