News from the Factory

Bike Friday Road Roots Run Deep

[EDITOR’S NOTE:  It has been a while since we first shared this with you, so why not bring in up again. Here’s a little peek into Bike Friday’s roots in bicycle racing in North Dakota in the 1980s, showing that our road racing experience runs deep.] As success stories go,

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Forever Young

Fred Time and his refurbished Pocket Rocket Pro. [EDITOR’S NOTE: Least we forget the thrill that comes with a new bike, Bike Friday owner Fred Time recently sent us this note:] OMG !!! After a two-day delay in arrival, my beautiful Green Bike Friday arrived. I almost drove my wife,

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Celebrating Her 70th

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Bike Friday owners Eugenia Hart and her husband Peter rode their Bike Fridays from Minnesota to the East Coast.] By Eugenia Hart Having already completed the western half of a transcontinental bike ride from Washington to the Wisconsin border, I wanted to figure some way to finish the

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Introducing a Bike Friday for riders up to 330 pounds

As folks all around the world make the commitment to change their lifestyle, we’ve found more and more people turning to Bike Friday to offer solutions. We’ve had the ability to build Bike Fridays with heavy rider upgrades to 280 pounds, but we still found individuals yearning for change whom

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CPSC Lifts tikit Recall

Dear tikit owners: A little more than a year has passed since we asked you to stop riding your Bike Friday tikits because of safety issues with our stems. I’m proud to say that we have satisfied the requirements of the Consumer Product Safety Commission official recall, and it has

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Hardly Extinct

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an on-going series on the individuals who make Bike Friday what it is: A collection of unique cycling enthusiasts spreading the word in interesting manners.] By RAZ Everyone has a story, but if you wander around the Bike Friday Factory you might be amazed

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I ‘Bent My Friday

  By Rich King [EDITOR’S NOTE: Last fall when Bike Friday faced the challenge of our tikit stem recall, Richard King appeared out of nowhere to lend his assistance. An independent engineer with experience in failure analysis and stress analysis, King came up to Eugene at his own expense, and

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Guess Who?

We get calls every day. From people all around the world. Sometimes the names sound kinda familiar. Like really familiar. Sometimes we have to ask, “Are you THE [fill in the blank]??” Guess who called in to order the Triple above? HINT: Look at the nameplate!

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We Got Tagged

Not really. See, this graffiti artist Gabe DeLao stopped by the Factory . “Listen, you have trouble with taggers,” he said. “They tag blank walls. But if you have artwork, they respect it, and leave it alone.” Kinda made sense to us, especially when Gabe admitted that he started as

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