October 26, 2011
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Once again, thank you to those of you in Portland who stopped by our Show N Ride on Saturday. You kept us so busy, I only had this brief moment to take a couple of photos — and I didn’t even have time to turn around and take a photo
We received an interesting note from Bike Friday owner Catharine Stewart-Roache, from Socorro, NM: Â My husband and I were cycling he Rhineweg from Basel to Cologne last month and we heard someone call out, “Hey Bike Fridays”. There were 3 women from Austin, Texas also spending a month cycling and
Nothing better than a first-hand account to give you insight into the Bike Friday experience. Graham Smith recently decided to find out once and for all what it is like to travel by train in Australia with his New World Tourist. Check out his report.
Portland Sunday Parkways closed its 2011 season on Sept. 25 with a ride through the Northeast section of town. Despite some stormy weather, with periods of downpours, the turnout was pretty good. When the sun poked through, the traffic level spiked and everyone was out to have a good time.
You can run around Interbike for hours. Days, actually. But getting a sense of what it all means it somewhat of a challenge. Each element of the bike industry has its own take, and its own interests. So, finding out what’s on the horizon — where we are headed —
     When Prismatic Powders called a few weeks back and asked us to chip in for its Interbike booth, we didn’t have to be asked twice. Prismatic Powders has been a Bike Friday partner for more than 20 years. This year, when we put an emphasis on colors to personalize
    It seems like it was just yesterday, but in reality months have passed. One winter morning, Dave Rosen of NuVinci stopped by Bike Friday to show us the latest incarnation of Fallbrook Industries’ Continuous Variable Transmission hub. To put it mildly, he faced a building full of skeptics. Yeah,
      It’s that time of the year. The time when almost everyone in the cycling industry descends upon Las Vegas for the trade show known as Interbike. The primary purpose of Interbike is to allow manufacturers and supplies to show their new products to shop owners, who decide what they
   The soft morning light slowly unveiled my long shadow dancing on the asphalt in front of me as I crested the short hill on my bicycle. Careless and free with elbows jutting outward from my handlebars, my silhoutte swung back and forth, left and right — a