Tag: Bike Friday

  • Riding the GAP and C&O Trails – Chapter 3

    Riding the GAP and C&O Trails – Chapter 3

    Day three on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail, from the new hiker-biker campground in Ohiopyle to Meyersdale, Pennsylvania. It’s 41 miles today and a long and steady uphill. Lots of cool bridges and tunnels along the way. I’m riding a Bike Friday All Packa folding gravel bike. Video and photos shot by me on…

  • Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 2

    Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 2

    [This story begins here] Day two on the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail, from the Dravo Hiker-Biker to the new hiker-biker campground in Ohiopyle. The day includes a little bit of weather. Well, more than a little bit. It started off fine though, and I enjoyed morning camp coffee before hitting the trail. I pedaled…

  • Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 1

    Riding the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Trails – Chapter 1

    Ride with me as I take the Amtrak to Pittsburgh and then start the Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) Trail, but not before stopping at a crazy bicycle museum – Bicycle Heaven! Bicycle Heaven is truly a unique place: I’m riding a Bike Friday All Packa folding gravel bike. Video and photos shot by me on…

  • Underbiking with the Bike Friday All Packa Folding Bicycle

    Underbiking with the Bike Friday All Packa Folding Bicycle

      2023 will be remembered as the year I got into folding bicycles. I’ve long admired Bike Friday’s folding bikes but never rode one. That changed with the purchase of a used Pocket Rocket, and I quickly understood what all the fuss was about. When the All Packa was introduced, I was immediately drawn to…

  • Transportation Alternatives 50th Anniversary Ride

    Transportation Alternatives 50th Anniversary Ride

    For 50 years, Transportation Alternatives has advocated for bike infrastructure in New York City. For many years, it was a tough slog, but slow and steady progress was made. In the early 2000s, Mayor Bloomberg moved things forward. And two things happened in 2013 that moved things forward. One, the Citi Bike bike sharing system…