Carbon Drive

Guess Who?

We get calls every day. From people all around the world. Sometimes the names sound kinda familiar. Like really familiar. Sometimes we have to ask, “Are you THE [fill in the blank]??” Guess who called in to order the Triple above? HINT: Look at the nameplate!

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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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We Got Tagged

Not really. See, this graffiti artist Gabe DeLao stopped by the Factory . “Listen, you have trouble with taggers,” he said. “They tag blank walls. But if you have artwork, they respect it, and leave it alone.” Kinda made sense to us, especially when Gabe admitted that he started as

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Golden Again at 92

She’s at it again. Bike Friday owner Carol Collins went to the National Senior Games in Cleveland, Ohio, in July, and walked away with three more gold medals. Collins, who lives in Houston, won her age group in the 5K and 10K time trials, and the 20K road race. That

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Day at the Museum

More than a hour before Alan Scholz’s scheduled talk at the Portland Art Museum on July 27, Bike Friday owners began rolling up to the courtyard. First a couple of Pocket Rockets zoomed up. In a matter of minutes, they were test riding a Silk. Then some New World Tourists

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Slow Down, Enjoy

BY RAZ Every now and then I need a reminder that there is more to riding your bicycle than pedaling. On vacation at Lake Tahoe, I rolled out of the campground at Fallen Leaf Lake for a ride. As I began pedaling up a gentle climb toward a waterfall, I

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