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Adventure Cyclist review

Patrick O’Grady spent some time reviewing our 2011 New World Tourist with the Select Group, and his conclusions appear in the June issue of Adventure Cyclist magazine, the official publication of the Adventure Cycling Association — a great resource for touring. Just thought we’d share a couple of excerpts: “Abandon

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MS magazine article

Bike Friday owner Peter Scheff sent us this note: I got an article published in the Momentum magazine (National MS Society) about my ride in Germany last summer on my bike Friday. Feel free to share with the Bike Friday community. Read the Article here Peter

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What’s Your Motivation?

When Peg Champion of GreenTown Los Altos went looking for comment for her blog, she got this from a Bike Friday owner: Jim Thurber, fourth-grade teacher at Gardner Bullis Elementary, who commutes daily on his Bike Friday, told her, “I’m a cheapskate. I hate to buy gasoline. I’d also like

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A Solo Bike Tour in Taiwan

[EDITOR’S NOTE: Here’s a short article and link to some great photos from a Bike Friday customer.] By Yang Cheng-Hsieh Sometimes I like the freedom of solo travel. I don’t need to wait for others. I can take a rest break whenever I want and ride at my own speed. 

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Check out the latest from Lynette Chiang on Bike Friday owner Lon Haldeman: By Lynette Chiang This one’s for BF Desert Campers and fans of Lon Haldeman/PACTOUR. I’m just back from an assignment in Peru videoing PACTOUR’s many, many charitable projects for schools, orphans and streetkids there. He also sponsors

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It’s Not Ours, But …

Customer Ken Firestone saw this and fired it in our direction. While it was produced by another folding bike company, we couldn’t help but point it out. Such an imaginative way to show the value of folding bikes.

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Still touring at 84

There’s a neat story in our local newspaper this morning about Ethel and Steve Marks, a mother-son duo taking a Bike Friday tandem on a tour of Europe. Ethel is 84 years old. My last job before Bike Friday was working at the local newspaper in Eugene, The Register-Guard. You

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