News from the Factory

Celebrating 80

Our friends at Adventure Cycling posted a neat story about Bike Friday owner Lou Schweickart celebrating his 80th Birthday on the Southern Tier route. Check out his Bike Friday! Happy Birthday, Lou!

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Tribute to Graham Day

  [EDITOR’S NOTE: Graham Day passed away on April 15, 2014. According to his wife Margaret, Graham died at home, peacefully and with the whole family around him. You can leave a tribute to him in the COMMENTS section below. The Days came to visit the Bike Friday factory in

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The 18th ABFC Gathering

By Robbie Dow / Bike Friday Sales Manager The 18th Annual Gathering of the Australian Bike Friday Club (ABFC) took place in early April 2014, and I was quite fortunate to be a part of it. Before the trip started, I was looking forward to meeting several Australian Bike Friday

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Lifestyle commercial

[EDITOR’S NOTE: We just received this neat note from Bike Friday owners Rich and Amanda Ligato:} Hey Bike Friday Folks, A few weeks ago an ad agency contacted us to ask if we’d be interested in allowing them to make a vignette commercial about our early retirement for Nationwide.  They wanted

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Sweet ride on Gates

Gates recently blogged photos of a sweet Bike Friday they caught at the National Hand Built Bicycle Show in Charlotte, N.C.

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Bike Fridays ’round the world

Bike Friday owners Bob Stockinger and Mary E. Duffy are world travelers, as well as organizers of a Tandem Rally in France each year. They told Bike Consultant Ruthy Kanagy that Bike Fridays are popular in France. They sent Ruthy this email: “Mary and I wanted to let you know

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Ever Dream of Suping up a Bike Friday?

We’re coming up on our 22nd Birthday on April 1st. We’ve built more than 40,000 bikes over the years, and in all honesty, it would be difficult to find two exact matches. That’s because our customers have insight and imagination that, well, that create magic. So here’s a blog post

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Learning to ride safely

Shane MacRhodes is our local Safe Routes to School coordinator, and has been actively involved in the design of our OSATAs and our new Cargo Bike, the Haul-a-Day, which will be introduced to the public soon. You can get a peek at the Haul-a-Day and get insight into this unique

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Tandem fun in New Zealand

[EDITOR’S NOTE: We recently received this note and photos from Bike Friday owners David and Carolyn McHale.] “When our son moved on a short term contract to Wellington last August we decided to realize our long held dream of cycle touring in New Zealand.”As part of the planning for the

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