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Riding is Believing: Why People Convert to Bike Friday

“Are folding bikes slow?” . “Do you have to pedal more because of the little wheels?” . “How does it ride compared to a real bike?” . These are some of the most frequent questions that we get from the general populous. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions about what our

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Best Folding Bike, Best Friend, Mr. Friday

New World Tourist Owner Arleene A. Just Wrote to Tell Us How Much She Loves Her Bike Friday! From Arleene: . . You know a bike is well loved when it gets a name!  Mr. Friday and I have gone on many great trips together. He accompanied me for all

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Touring the Netherlands with two Bike Friday bikes

Riding a Bike Friday in the Netherlands

We recently heard from Bike Friday owner Steve O. about his frequent travels to The Netherlands, here’s Steve to tell you more about it: . We fell in love with bike touring riding standard bikes in the Netherlands, a cyclist paradise. And I fell in love with folding bikes on

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A folding bike in a magical tunnel in Korea

Biking Seoul to Busan, South Korea

A solo bike touring trip from Seoul to Busan on a Bike Friday tikit. By Aaron Lim . . . My 1st bike touring trip overseas over a period of 8 days. It’s an adventure that I will never forget as I did a cross country of Korea in late

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The pakiT: A Lighter, Easier, More Convenient Bike

Long time Bike Friday owner Sally C. stays nimble, and keeps up with her granddaughter on her new pakiT . . I heard about the pakiT from a Bike Friday e-mail message and originally thought about it for our grandson, who was starting college.  I did call Bike Friday and

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Finding Icelandic glaciers while riding a folding bike

Touring Iceland by Bike

Photographer Aaron Lim Just Completed a 2000 km Cycling Journey Across Iceland on His Bike Friday tikit . . . . Back in 2009 I was on a bus ride towards Vatnajokull doing a video project. I noticed Bike tourers along the way and they were all loaded with panniers.

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Changing the narrative around autism with an epic trip across the US

A Family’s Mission to Change the Narrative Around Autism

. To challenge ablism and the narrative around autism, three very brave and committed cyclists trekked across the entire United States. Two of them, Fiona and Travis, are fully grown adults, and the third is their seven year old son, Patch, who was diagnosed with severe autism at 21 months.

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Molly Hayes gets ready to compete in a triathlon

The best way to stay young? Become a triathlete.

Serial Triathlete Molly Hayes Stays Young by Staying Active       Become a triathlete. And learn email.   At least that’s what Susan B. Cox, the first woman inducted into the Triathlon Hall of Fame, advised her friend, and fellow athlete, Molly Hayes.   At 83 years of age,

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Haul-a-Day Bloggers

  Since it’s inception, the Bike Friday Haul-a-Day has inspired more blogging than any other of our models. Here is an overview of some of our favorite bloggers covering Haul-a-Days!   Lovely Bicycle An approachable blog written with the average reader in mind, Lovely Bicycle is full stories and reviews,

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Feeling Young Again

We recently received this terrific note on the benefits of e-assist from Bob in California:   We have now ridden 1400 miles on our new Friday Tandem XL.  We have named it Electric Orange or EO for short. It has the Sram three speed drive system.  It is equipped with mountain

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