News from the Road

First Silk Across the Alps

BY STEVE NICOL As soon as I saw the first announcement for a Bike Friday Silk I knew I had to have one. I have been a fan of folding bikes for awhile because I tend to travel a lot, but was getting rather fed up with the seemingly inevitable

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Bicycle Times reviews Tandem Traveler XL

The most recent issue of Bicycle Times magazine has a review of the Bike Friday Tandem Traveler XL by Trina Haynes, a staff member and mother who wanted to test a tandem to ride with her 11-year-old daughter, Darby. Here are some excerpts from the review. Pick up a copy

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Gates Carbon Belt Drive reviews

Customers ask a lot of questions about the Gates Carbon Belt Drive system, which you can order on a Silk or Carbon Drive tikit. Here is an independent review of it, with gobs of information. And yes, the Gates Belts are Made in the USA, in Kentucky.

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First in Battle

Bike Friday owner Randy Comer has been riding his new <i>Silk</i> all over the South, and everywhere he goes, he’s pretty sure his is the first <i>Silk</i> there. Randy rode the bike tour at the Chickamauga Battlefield near Chattanooga, TN. He then took his <i>Silk</i> to the site of the

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Gravel Grinding Friday

  [Editor’s Note: We recently got this note from our Angel Investor, Jeff Linder] “I just finished Rebecca Rusch’s first annual “Rebecca’s Private Idaho Gravel Grinder.” “It’s a 100-miler on unimproved back mountain roads. I have never been so “jack-hammered” in all my life. “The memory of Tour of Flanders

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It’s a Small World

My nephew is on a business trip to Germany, and caught a glimpse of a Bike Friday parked in Pfortzheim Germany.    

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Bike Friday’s Air Show

By RAZ Denny Fuhrman looked out across the tarmac at the Independence Airport, splattered with a decent number of airplanes and declared that was only a nibble of what’s to come. “This will be packed with planes,” Fuhrman said in the wee hours of the morning as cooks began preparing

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Spinning discs

BY RAZ I got up early Sunday to run some errands. Early to rise, early to bed. My goal for the day was simple: Chill in my chair. I had no other plans. Nor designs. But I made a huge mistake when I finished my errands. I didn’t close the

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OSATA at SRTS

BY RAZ OK, that’s a lot of letters. Alphabet soup. What’s it mean? Well, it means that the Bike Friday OSATA [which stands for One Size Adjusts To All] was a smashing success at the SRTS [Safe Routes to School] National Conference in Sacramento. On Tuesday morning, LeeAnne Fergason of

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You Never Know

BY RAZ Everything came together rather quickly. I suddenly found myself with a free weekend. The girls were out of town. Just me and Ridgely, my black lab. Time for a quick camping getaway. My sights were set on a long hike I’ve been saving up for such an occasion.

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