BikeFriday.com Folding bicycles, travel bicycles and folding bike accessories
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Bike Friday folding bicycles, travel bicycles and folding bike accessories
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In 1991, Hanz Scholz, co-founder and designer of Bike Friday, flew to Australia with the world's first Bike Friday travel bicycle: a double ring, diamond frame New World Tourist. "I'd never packed the bike in a suitcase before this trip and I am happy to report it worked great." (Otherwise Bike Friday's folding bicycles would probably still be on every cycle tourist's wish list). He met a former girlfriend and took buses to cycle the desert regions of 'Oz', including Uluru, the Olgas, Darwin, Broome, Perth, Catherine and Alice Springs.
Was it hot? "Oh, about 130 degrees. We went through 4 gallons of water, overheated ... I had to ride 18 miles in the pitch dark with my little Maglite, then nearly ran into a wild horse ... all the light showed was some fur." And the Bike Friday prototype? "Every time Janet got on a bus they wanted to charge her $10 for her mountain bike. They said, 'yours can go free but she's gotta pay for hers.'"
Ten years later, the New World Tourist has evolved to be the benchmark in performance travel bicycles, and is joined by a wide range of models covering the extremes of two-wheeled travel: packable tandems, recumbents, racing models, expedition models...
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