First Silk Across the Alps
BY STEVE NICOL As soon as I saw the first announcement for a Bike Friday Silk I knew I had to have one. I have been a fan of folding bikes for awhile because I tend to travel a lot, but was getting rather fed up with the seemingly inevitable layer of grease that seemed […]
Bicycle Times reviews Tandem Traveler XL
The most recent issue of Bicycle Times magazine has a review of the Bike Friday Tandem Traveler XL by Trina Haynes, a staff member and mother who wanted to test a tandem to ride with her 11-year-old daughter, Darby. Here are some excerpts from the review. Pick up a copy at your bike store: Bicycle […]
Gates Carbon Belt Drive reviews
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.
First in Battle
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 headquarters for Gen. Longstreet and […]
I ‘Bent My Friday
 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 visited Bike Friday. He reviewed […]
Gravel Grinding Friday
[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 and Paris-Roubaix are too blunted […]
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!
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 flapjacks for the pancake breakfast […]
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 back hatch on my SUV. […]
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 the Bicycle Transportation Alliance in […]
