Bike Friday calendar of events

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TIME: 7pm – 10pm, Peru screens 7.15pm, Route 66 screens 8.15pm
DIRECTIONS: Click here | Parking at Jam Factory, bike parking under the building of 6 Bond St
COST: Donation towards costs and the Peru Orphanage featured in the film appreciatedThe Galfromdownunder's award-winning bicycle films shot with a simple digital camera and minimal technology have been praised by cycling and multimedia audiences across the USA. In conjunction with Race Across America legend Long Haldeman, 16,000 Feet on a Friday travels the world's highest highway to a remote orphanage in Peru, and was voted Audience Choice at the inaugural Boston Bike Film Festival; Route 66 by Bicycle is a 29-day expedition along the original alignments of the famous historic route, visiting beloved icons of roadside America. Q&A includes a demo of her folding bicycle and her techniques of "handlebar moviemaking" revealed. Lucky draw to win a DVD!

Thanks to Belgiovane Williams McKay (creators of the Telstra "Too Many Rabbits in China" tv commercial), for the use of their theatre.

Shortcut to this event http://www.bikefriday.com/events/galfilmfest13may08

When spring arrives, all roads lead to the beach. The 18th annual "Reach the Beach Clean Air Bicycle Challenge" will have over 2,000 participants heading for the Pacific! You all come from different rides of life, but onMay 17th you've got two things in common: enjoying Oregon's picturesque landscape and pedaling for a good cause. The ride starts from five different locations: Portland, Corvallis, Salem, Amity or Grand Ronde. This benefit ride for the American Lung Association of Oregon is great training for Seattle to Portland and Cycle Oregon. To be a part of this great Oregon tradition, each rider pays a low registration fee and collects at least $50.00 in donations. We provide superb organization, beautiful routes, medical and mechanical support on course, 10 lunch and snack stops and a magnificent beach party with a delicious hearty feast. Reach the Beach is one of Oregon's premier cycling events. Spend the day with us, and explore Oregon!

Pedal Power member and small wheeled cyclist, Tony McKittrick, will give a presentation on his epic 7,800 kilometre journey across Canada from June to September last year. He will tell us that, surprisingly, The Rockies, were an easy climb: it was the mountains further East that were really challenging. Come along to hear more about: The highs and lows of the trip; the meaning of "EFI", the code undertaken by the 32 people in his group; and the training Tony undertook to prepare for the event.

Following Tony's presentation, fellow Bike Friday world traveler Lynette Chiang http://www.galfromdownunder.com is back in her hometown Canberra and wll briefly demonstrate the new Bike Friday tikit, 'the 5-second folder with the famous Friday ride', http://www.bikefriday.com/tikit
Following the presentation, come and join your cycling friends upstairs for
a chat and a coffee

Tired of of the peak hour standstill? Envious of fit cyclists cruising past the congestion? Like to ride but need more cues, clues, companionship? A panel of Sydney movers and shakers in the cycling community present a "mini-sustainability symposium" of new, novel and increasingly necessary ways you can transform your daily commute. Meet these cycling advocates, learn about Bike Bus and riding with bike buddies, and open your mind to bicycles built for a sustainable future, including the multi-modal - or folding - bicycle. Bromptons and the new tikitTM, Bike Friday's answer to global oil addiction, will be briefly demonstrated. Refreshments will be served by Clarence St Cyclery. Note: Clarence St Cyclery do not endorse the purchase of any particular brand of bicycle at this event.
Read more. TIME: 6.00 for 6.16pm - 7.30pm. Store open until 8pm. Directions Watch this space for more details

Explore the compact bike universe, partake in the Fast Fold Showdown, and for the first time, officially enter the Manayunk Hill Climb's new FOLDING BIKE division. Read about it.

HERE'S THE 2008 DRAFT HILL CLIMB SCHEDULE:

FRI June 6
Noon-4:30pm FOLDER DEMOs and informal talks
. Trophy Bikes, 3131 Walnut Street.

4:45 pm sharp FOLDER RIDE to Manayunk to watch hillclimb. Meets at Trophy Bikes.



6 pm COMMERCE BANK MANAYUNK HILLCLIMB, Main and Levering Sts., Manayunk. CLIMBERS WANTED!

If you're a good climber, please enter the hillclimb event. TROPHY BIKES is sponsoring a FOLDER CLASS - with cash prizes for the top male and female folder bikers.

Read the inaugural 2007 event report

The inaugural 2007 rally was a blast! Here is an event especially for our SatRDay owners. John and Ann Hoyt invite recumbent riders, especially SatRDay owners, to a weekend rally based at their divine cottages by the sea. John says: My wife and I would like to host you folks in September at our cottages in Rye. Rides will vary from 17 miles to 45 miles to a lot longer if you wish and all sorts of combinations in between. Portsmouth is just an 20 minute ride by bike from here and it's quite the quaint town (lots of restaurants and shopping). York and Ogunquit Maine are about 20 - 30 minutes by car or an hour by bike. Again, lots of restaurants and shopping. Our rocky coast is a great place to relax and read or just gaze or whatever. A good place to just get a feel for this area is the Official NH guide book go to the seacoast region. Our web site is www.hoytslodges.com . Special cottage rate for attendees. Call us or better yet, come on by, park here for the day, and check out the coast. [Editor's note: John and Ann are two of the coolest and nicest people you are every likely to meet in your life, ever - the Gal] Permalink: http://www.bikefriday.com/events/ryerecumbent

2nd great year! Pocket Rocket owner and founder of Cyclevents.com, Tom Sheehan runs Pedalers Pub and Grille, a division that offers tours the way the name suggests - 'good rides, good food, good times'. Based on our Thailand Ancient Kingdom Ride, this trip will be scheduled to coincide with the Loy Krathong Festival, the Thai celebration of the end of the rainy season, with colorful flower displays floating on all river, lakes and ponds. Includes lodging in first class hotels, inn and resorts, all meals on cycling days, breakfast only on layover days, sag support, guide services and admission to selected sites along the route, Bangkok airport pick up, Chiang Mai airport drop off. Year round, Bike Friday owners enjoy a 10% discount on any scheduled departure from Pedalers Pub & Grille. Contact me now! For more info http://www.pedalerspubandgrille.com/bikefriday/. Write to rides@pedalerspubandgrille.com.