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.
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
 By Rich King [EDITOR’S NOTE: Last fall when Bike Friday faced the challenge of our tikit stem recall, Richard King appeared out of nowhere to lend his assistance. An independent engineer with experience in failure analysis and stress analysis, King came up to Eugene at his own expense, and
[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
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!
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
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
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
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.
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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