Sorry, here's the link to BBC radio program on Kansas City

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/


---- jgilbert9@... wrote:
> Hi Lynette:
>
> A belated Happy Birthday!
>
>
> FYI, BBC Radio's "One Planet" program has asegment on how Kansas Cit could
become the most bike-friendly city in the US by the year 2020
>
> Regards,
> Jeff
>
>
> ---- lynchiang@... wrote:
> > Hey funsters, great to be back in nyc especially on my 46th birthday (I got
no problem with age, its all downhill from here). And also, as of yesterday,
getting my greencard approved. Not sure what that means but perhaps I won't have
to remove my bike shoes anymore when I go through the scanner!
> >
> > Tomorrow I will bundle 5 tikits into a cab for a NY fashion week rehearsal,
the parade for designer Telfar (kind of mad max meets manga ...)  is Monday. 
More soon about this, though I was trying *not'* to update the bike friday
website on my birthday but this is corporate america :o)
> >
> > I'm standing outside this promising little Asian bistro (with Cuban mĆ³jitos
and queasdillas and fish and chips on the menu too, go figure) called Zemi
opened just a month,  right across from where I'm staying in Chelsea. Menu looks
great, wanna join me to celebrate life?  *Fresh fruit* mĆ³jitos' I couldn't even
get them in Cuba! Might even go tonight!
> >
> > Vamanos! Looking forward to riding with you folks again, planning to do the
NY century or part thereof... On a borrowed fashion designer tikit!
> >
> > My number is 541 513 7711
> > Lynette
> >
> > Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>

Hi Lynette:

A belated Happy Birthday!


FYI, BBC Radio's "One Planet" program has asegment on how Kansas Cit could
become the most bike-friendly city in the US by the year 2020

Regards,
Jeff


---- lynchiang@... wrote:
> Hey funsters, great to be back in nyc especially on my 46th birthday (I got no
problem with age, its all downhill from here). And also, as of yesterday,
getting my greencard approved. Not sure what that means but perhaps I won't have
to remove my bike shoes anymore when I go through the scanner!
>
> Tomorrow I will bundle 5 tikits into a cab for a NY fashion week rehearsal,
the parade for designer Telfar (kind of mad max meets manga ...)  is Monday. 
More soon about this, though I was trying *not'* to update the bike friday
website on my birthday but this is corporate america :o)
>
> I'm standing outside this promising little Asian bistro (with Cuban mĆ³jitos
and queasdillas and fish and chips on the menu too, go figure) called Zemi
opened just a month,  right across from where I'm staying in Chelsea. Menu looks
great, wanna join me to celebrate life?  *Fresh fruit* mĆ³jitos' I couldn't even
get them in Cuba! Might even go tonight!
>
> Vamanos! Looking forward to riding with you folks again, planning to do the NY
century or part thereof... On a borrowed fashion designer tikit!
>
> My number is 541 513 7711
> Lynette
>
> Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
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Yahoo! Groups Links

... Will be for sale after the show. Collectors items! With designer decal! Its
not Dries Van Noten but who needs Dries when you can have TELFAR??? I ask you.
Will post a pic soon, when David Lam gets the bikes out of the boxes...
Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

> Vamanos!

=v= Hey, talk English or we'll take away your Green Card.
Country First!
     <_Jym_>

P.S.:  The best mojitos are in Brooklyn.

Hey funsters, great to be back in nyc especially on my 46th birthday (I got no
problem with age, its all downhill from here). And also, as of yesterday,
getting my greencard approved. Not sure what that means but perhaps I won't have
to remove my bike shoes anymore when I go through the scanner!

Tomorrow I will bundle 5 tikits into a cab for a NY fashion week rehearsal, the
parade for designer Telfar (kind of mad max meets manga ...)  is Monday.  More
soon about this, though I was trying *not'* to update the bike friday website on
my birthday but this is corporate america :o)

I'm standing outside this promising little Asian bistro (with Cuban mójitos and
queasdillas and fish and chips on the menu too, go figure) called Zemi opened
just a month,  right across from where I'm staying in Chelsea. Menu looks great,
wanna join me to celebrate life?  *Fresh fruit* mójitos' I couldn't even get
them in Cuba! Might even go tonight!

Vamanos! Looking forward to riding with you folks again, planning to do the NY
century or part thereof... On a borrowed fashion designer tikit!

My number is 541 513 7711
Lynette

Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T

Folks, it's on again - was a blast last year - a few hours north of NYC
Spread the word ... first recumbents, first served, second singles who are
interested in
recumbents, second served.
This is a special invitation to our Bike Friday SatRDay owners.
http://www.bikefriday.com/events/ryerecumbent - includes full multimedia report
Contact John and Ann Hoyts directly
Looks like I (galfromdownunder aka BF Customer Evangelist) will be attending
recumbentless
but armed with multimedia weaponry)
Here's a report from downunder http://www.bikefriday.com/australia08

=v= I don't think they know this can be read more than one way.
     <_Jym_>

http://www.transalt.org/newsroom/releases/2339

Free Bike Fridays on Governors Island

Contact: Wiley Norvell 1 646-873-6008
Release Date: 06/04/2008

Transportation Alternatives Sponsors NYC's Only Free Bike Program

Since opening to the public in 2007, Governors Island has fast
become one of New York City's premier cycling destinations.
Now, Transportation Alternatives and the Governors Island
Preservation and Education Corporation are proud to announce
Free Bike Fridays, an initiative to provide free bicycle rentals
to visitors on Governors Island this summer. From June 6th to
October 4th, visitors will be able to rent bicycles free of
charge on Fridays at the Bike and Roll bicycle rental station
on Governors Island.

Free Bike Fridays is the only free bicycle program in New York
City, and will serve as a model for encouraging bicycling at
other major parks and destinations.

"Transportation Alternatives is thrilled to sponsor Free Bike
Fridays this summer so that thousands of New Yorkers can
discover the joys and efficiencies of bicycling in a safe,
car-free environment," said Paul Steely White, Executive
Director of Transportation Alternatives.

"Biking is a fantastic way to explore Governors Island," said
Leslie Koch, President of the Governors Island Preservation and
Education Corporation. "We are thrilled to have free biking on
Governors Island this summer so that more visitors than ever can
enjoy biking in the middle of New York Harbor."

Funding for Free Bike Fridays was provided by an anonymous
Brooklyn donor. On Saturdays and Sundays, adult and children's
bikes can be rented for five dollars for 30 minutes.

Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone
Lynette Chiang
Bike Friday Customer Evangelist
BIKE FRIDAY. PERFORMANCE THAT PACKS
http://www.bikefriday.com
3364 West 11th Ave Eugene, OR, 97402, USA
Phone 800-777-0258 | Fax 541-687-0403 | Cell 541-513-7711
Australia: +61 420 968 967 (Cell), +61 2 9327 8630 (Sydney)
Email: lynettec@...
Personal Website:
http://www.galfromdownunder.com

.... and Rob English will race the Speeding tikit...
http://www.bikefriday.com/tikit/robspinkone

LITTLE FOLDER BIKES FROLIC DURING BIG RACE WEEKEND
PRESS CONTACT: Michael McGettigan   215.990.9275 (event tel is below)

LITTLE WHEELS TAKE ON THE "WALL"

Watch folding bicycles mix it up with their full-size cousins
at the CSC Manayunk Hill Climb.  Fri., June 6th, 6p.m. sharp,
Levering and Main Streets, Manayunk.

This year, for the first time, there will be prizes for the
first folder bikes to zoom up "The Wall."  ONLINE REGISTRATION
ENDS JUNE 3....

			       AND

FAST FOLD FOLLIES

Ride, Fold, Sit, Unfold, Ride!  See who can fold and unfold
their folder bike the fastest at the FAST FOLD SHOWDOWN. Sat.,
June 7th, 2:30 p.m., Schuylkill River Park at Market Street.

If you have a folder bike, come down and see if you can fold
thisfast.  WE ALSO NEED PEOPLE TO CHEER (AND JEER--it's a Philly
tradition) at this event. Refreshments will be served.

Also, stick around for folding bike demos and test rides.

Both events are part of the ROUND UP FOLDER BIKE FEST, June
6-7-8, a three-day look at those clever bikes that fold and
unfold in a trice.  This FREE Festival is hosted by Trophy Bikes
in University City, 3131 Walnut St. Philadelphia PA 1910.
215.222.2020.

It brings together folder riders and makers from all over, to
ride and debate the design merits of "compact" bicycles that
collapse for storage or transport.

For a full schedule, go to:
http://www.trophybikes.com/events.php?catid=7

= Background =

Velonews:  Folder class added to Hill Climb:
http://velonews.com/article/75933

See a video of last year's Fast Fold Showdown:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dDKsCvDhCqI

PIC FROM 2007 FAST FOLD SHOWDOWN IN PHILADELPHIA 2007 WINNER
DAVID LAM sprints, carrying his freshly folded Bike Friday
Tikit bicycle. (Photo Andrew McGettigan)

http://sports.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/bfclubny/photos/view/c713?b=1

###

=v= Bicycle Film Festival, that is.  (What, you thought that
meant "best friends forever?")  They forgot to mention Lynette.
     <_Jym_>

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/museums-culture/29612/bicycle-film-festi\
val

Bicycle Film Festival
Various Venues Wed 28 - Jun 1
	 by Dan Avery
Time Out New York | 22-May-2008 - 28-May-2008

It'll never reach the level of Sundance or Cannes (or even
Tribeca), but the Bicycle Film Festival, running Wednesday 28 to
June 1, does draw some of NYC's culturati -- and they come for
the love of the wheel, not to kiss Harvey Weinstein's posterior.

At the Bikes Rock kickoff party at Studio B on Wednesday 28,
Blonde Redhead drummer Simone Pace conducts a live score to
JĆørgen Leth's 1974 speed-record documentary _The_Impossible_
_Hour_, while the Dear Velo art show on Thursday 29 is hosted by
vintage preppy Andy Spade.

Bat For Lashes's Natasha Khan -- or her celluloid personage,
anyway -- is on view on when the band's video for "What's a
Girl to Do" screens as part of Fun Bike Shorts on May 30 (think
Donnie Darko on Schwinns).

But the biggest name on the program is actor Matthew Modine, who
appears in the activist doc Bicycle Stories later that night.
Turns out the _Birdy_ star has been a cyclist since his salad
days: "I used to sneak out of my parents' house and ride to
my girlfriend's place," he says. "We lived in Imperial Beach,
California, and biking home with the salt and wind in the air
kind of completed the sensual experience." The founder of
the advocacy group Bicycle for a Day, Modine will also share
favorite movie clips featuring two-wheelers at "Bike Scene It"
on May 31 -- including, possibly, a curious snippet from his
1992 sailing movie, _Wind_. "We were filming in Utah when a
sandstorm came in. We couldn't shoot what we planned so the
director, Carroll Ballard, said, 'Let's film the storm,'" Modine
recalls. "No one was sure what to do, so I just hopped on my
bike and rode down this desert runway through 70-mile-an-hour
winds, using my shirt as a sail. It's a beautiful sequence."

For sale brand new, barely used, mint condition Garmin Quest II GPS
(https://buy.garmin.com/shop/shop.do?cID=135&pID=338).  Comes complete
with cigarette lighter adapter and speaker that attaches to the
windshield of your vehicle.  This GPS comes completely pre-loaded with
all North American maps including Canada and Puerto Rico.  Also comes
with NT Garmin software, perfect for planning your route.  I will
include a handle bar bracket, perfect for using your GPS on a bicycle.
This is the only GPS system that has so many features such as point of
interest locations that can be used on a bicycle
.  This GPS retails for $700+.  I am selling for $450 cash.  You must
pick up in person or send money order and I will rush it to you as soon
as your money order clears.  Please no personal checks because I am not
about to be conned, serious replies only.

Lecture: A Cyclist's History of New York

New York City is home to a thriving bike culture, including the country's
largest recreational ride and scores of bike-related clubs, businesses,
events, and craftsmen. Cycling historian (and Bike Friday owner) David
Herlihy, author of Bicycle: The History (Yale University Press, 2004), will
present an illustrated history of biking in New York, including races,
roads, equipment, clothing, and cycling's cultural impact and influences.
Highlights include the bicycle crazes of the 1860s and 1890s, a milestone
court case for cyclists' rights, standing-room only Six Day Races at Madison
Square Garden, and technological and social changes aplenty. Sponsored by
Bike New York in celebration of Bike Month NYC.

Sat., May 24, 2:00 p.m., Museum of the City of New York (1220 Fifth Ave. at
104th St.). Free with museum admission. Valet bike parking available
starting at 1:30.

http://www.mcny.org/public_programs/all/848.html

Hello,

I hope no one minds me posting this here but I will make it quick I have a
Red Pocket Nomad i am selling. it is a small, very much like the pocket
tourist but the front fork has a good bit of rake to it. I am asking $550.
If you are interested my email is matt@.... Just cannot have 3 bikes
in one room anymore. Thanks

the mothership

The ride is at 2:00 and the festival is at 4:00.

Hannah
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: dubnoe@...
>
> sorry, I am confused. does the ride start at 2 or 4?? thanks! :)
>
> Erica
>
>
>
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Minor correction: the Festival starts at 4:00. Hope to see you there!
Hannah
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jym Dyer" <jym@...>
To: "New York Bike Friday Club of America" <bfclubny@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 3:39 PM
Subject: [bfclubny] Next Saturday: Folds Up! Bike Ride and Festival


>= FOLDS UP! FOLDING BIKE RIDE AND FESTIVAL =
>
> As seen in _Bicycling_ Magazine:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/2454772800/
>
> =v= It's that time of year again!
>    <_Jym_>
>
> The Ride
> ~~~~~~~~
> WHAT:   A leisurely 10-mile ride through Manhattan and Brooklyn
> showcasing folding bicycles.  (But all types of bikes are
> welcome, as long as their riders are folding-curious!)
>
> WHERE:  Start location:  West 23rd Street on the Hudson River
> Greenway, Manhattan.  End location:  Stuyvesant Cove Park,
> East 23rd Street at the East River, Manhattan.
>
> WHEN:  2 p.m., Saturday, May 10, 2008
> [Optional meeting at 1:00 at Bethesda Terrace, Central Park,
> to cheer on the small-wheeled bike race and ride to Folds Up!]
>
> The Festival
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> WHAT:   Learn all about folding bicycles, and see and try out
> different models. Refreshments courtesy of Swift Folder.
>
> WHERE:  Stuyvesant Cove Park (East 23rd Street at the East River)
>
> WHEN:   4:30 p.m., after the bike ride, Saturday, May 10, 2008.
>
> RIDE AND FESTIVAL ARE FREE TO ALL!
>
> More Details
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Ride and Festival:
> http://times-up.org/index.php?page=folds-up-ride
>
> Small-Wheeled Bike Race:
> http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=1676
>
>
> ------------------------------------
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>

= FOLDS UP! FOLDING BIKE RIDE AND FESTIVAL =

As seen in _Bicycling_ Magazine:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jym/2454772800/

=v= It's that time of year again!
     <_Jym_>

The Ride
~~~~~~~~
WHAT:   A leisurely 10-mile ride through Manhattan and Brooklyn
showcasing folding bicycles.  (But all types of bikes are
welcome, as long as their riders are folding-curious!)

WHERE:  Start location:  West 23rd Street on the Hudson River
Greenway, Manhattan.  End location:  Stuyvesant Cove Park,
East 23rd Street at the East River, Manhattan.

WHEN:  2 p.m., Saturday, May 10, 2008
[Optional meeting at 1:00 at Bethesda Terrace, Central Park,
to cheer on the small-wheeled bike race and ride to Folds Up!]

The Festival
~~~~~~~~~~~~
WHAT:   Learn all about folding bicycles, and see and try out
different models. Refreshments courtesy of Swift Folder.

WHERE:  Stuyvesant Cove Park (East 23rd Street at the East River)

WHEN:   4:30 p.m., after the bike ride, Saturday, May 10, 2008.

		 RIDE AND FESTIVAL ARE FREE TO ALL!

More Details
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ride and Festival:
http://times-up.org/index.php?page=folds-up-ride

Small-Wheeled Bike Race:
http://times-up.org/calendar/detail.php?calendarid=1676

I would like to ask if you can help me promote an event that I am
leading this coming August 5th, 2008.  It's an event to promote peace
among are growing number of teenagers who are turning to guns and
gangs to solve their personal differences.  This event is a bike ride
beginning from the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge and
will end at Ivy Hill Park in Newark, NJ where we will hold a candle
light vigil and recognize all the victims of senseless gun violence
that is occurring withing our communities.

     As for myself, I am advent bike rider and I frequently ride my
bike from NYC to Philadelphia each summer.  I have ridden and
marshaled the  Five Borough Bike Tour as well as joined with Critical
Mass along with Transportations Alternatives.  Promoting bike safety
and other environmental issues.  So I am asking you to please help
promote this cause which I feel is very dear to me.  The reason why
is because last summer on August 5th, four young teenagers  who were
inside a school playground listening to music were gunned down
execution style for no apparent reasons but what is believed to be a
gang initiation.  These were four young kids that did not have any
criminal records and were enjoying their last months of summer
vacation before starting college.  This crime made national headlines
and shined the spotlight on teenagers who join gangs and use guns to
solve their personal differences.  I am asking all of you to please
help me promote this ride
among your groups and organizations.  My goal is to get as many as
50+ riders to join me in this cause.

     Name of the event will be "Ride for Peace" and we will meet rain
or shine at 6pm on August 5th at west 178th street and Cabrini Blvd.
in manhattan At 6:30pm, we will begin our ride to Ivy Hill Park in
Newark, NJ where we have a candle light vigil for last years victims
as well as the many other innocent victims throughout our
communities.  So could you please post this in your upcoming news
letters and help me promote this cause.  If you'd like to see the
video promoting this event, click on the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzBE9fhHoHs .  Your help will be
greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

David M Torres

Hi folks

I am thinking of getting some Ortlieb Sport Packer Plus panniers for my BF NWT (for the front rack). Has anyone had any experiences with this pannier (good or bad) in terms of how they attach to the custom front rack and overall quality, usefulness, etc.? Any thoughts, opinions, other recommendations would be appreciated. Thanks.

Glen Nison