News from the Factory

All-Packa 2024 Press Release

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bike Friday’s 2024 All-Packa Continues Tradition of American Craftsmanship: New Game-Changing Features Added To The Ultimate Folding Bikepacking Bike Made Just For You [Eugene Oregon, October 18th, 2023] — “If I had to create a short list of game-changing bikes in the last decades of bikepacking—a

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Tips to get your bike ready for spring riding

  Spring/ Summer Tune-up Checklist:   Dust off the dirt – Clean away dirt and grease of the past. Rust free is the goal – Check for visible signs of rust, especially on brake cables and chain – rusted brake cables should be replaced. Lube it up – Clean your

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Creating the All-Packa

How the All-Packa and Packalope bars came to be by Willie Hatfield     The origination of the All-Packa In 2020 I started a program of research and development (AKA tinkering) with the high aim of creating the ultimate bikerafting bike. The code name was Tardigrade AKA Water Bear. Bikerafting

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Designing in 12 Dimensions

Welcome to the ‘Designing in 12 Dimensions’ blog. It is about cycling, cyclists, and thoughts motivated by 50 years of cycling and meeting cyclists of all stripes. Its focus is also on designing new bikes & new systems at Bike Friday. Written with a makers & pantologist’s perspective, and as

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Bike Friday “shelters at home” responding to COVID 19

Update Bike Friday Team “Shelters at Home” Responding to COVID-19 (Friday March 20th, 2020)   Hello Bike Friday Community, These are strange times! Its a sunny spring day and we are all going home to do our responsible part of slowing the COVID-19 virus in our community and supporting our

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Bike Friday Climate Action

Be Powerful! Join Bike Friday in Climate Action   At Bike Friday it’s not just about cool bikes. Its about making the world healthier to live in.   Lets get serious together. The children are marching in the streets and we each need to take personal action to live sustainably

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From Norway with love…on two wheels

Story from Steven F. Investor/Bike Friday owner My wife and I recently returned from biking the fjords of Sunnhordland, the southern coastal regions of Norway, where, according to one local, the street names are really novels because they are so long. We started in Bergen, Norway’s second largest city and

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