The Designers Dilemma Vintage Bike Fridays released for New Owners The designers dilemma by Alan Scholz (Bike Friday co-founder) Like many of you, I love bicycles. And like many of you I have more than one, ok more than a couple. OK the truth! A LOT more than a
Blog by Kent Peterson: Alan Scholz recently gave me a new KT-LCD6 display console for my e-bike. It’s a bit bigger than my old KT-LCD5 console, but it shows me a few things that my old display didn’t. In addition to the usual speed, average speed, trip distance, and total
Design Goals – At Bike Friday we start with the end goal in mind. Bicycles are already so special and refined it makes no sense to add things that do not add to or enhance the wonderful experience of cycling. We usually think of cycling as self-powered, so efficiency takes
Five minutes after I installed a solar panel on the roof of my bike shed it began to rain. Since this was April in Oregon, the rain was not an unusual or unforeseen event and in fact, the next five days were rainy and mostly cloudy. But even on those
The Joy of Riding on Sunshine Perspective – NASA,1964, Pop Tunes, Human Scale & Dreams come true. #2 in series. In the first article I wrote of the confusion about electric bikes, how I felt we had been right – but very wrong, about cycling’s ‘sweet spot’, & Joy.
All you need to know about electric assist & the Cyclist.(but you will want to know more!) #1 in series. “In the first article, I dispel the confusion about electric assist, explain why as cyclists we were right – but very wrong, tell you about cycling’s sweet spot,
While e-bikes have been a growing part of the bicycle business for several years, I’d always figured I didn’t need one and frankly, I didn’t want one. For decades I’ve managed to get around just fine on a bike where I’m the only motor and I didn’t see any reason
What it means for a bike to be “Made in the USA” can be a bit confusing to people not up to date with the realities of manufacturing and the business supply chain within the current bike industry. Over the last 35+years, 95%+ of the USA bike industry moved overseas.
E-motion is High at Bike Friday The 3 Es of our Electric Enhancement systems for Cyclists E-xpectations, E-tiquette, E-mancipation E-xpectations: why now? the law, realistic power & speed, + flying with an E-nhanced BikeFriday Why now? Why now and not before? The short answer is confusion. Confusion caused by multiple
We just read a really interesting blog post about how E-Bikes are now more dangerous than cars. Though this isn’t actually true it made us think about our design and what we could be doing better as well as what are we doing right. Well the good news is the