SOLD - Bike Friday New World Tourist For Sale

My beautiful Black 2010 Bike Friday New World Tourist has now been reduced to a "Labor Day Blow-out" Sale price.  NOW SOLD   

A change in work location and travel schedule has prevented my essentially brand new NWT from being ridden as she deserves, so it's time to pass her along to some lucky owner who is willing to accept a few cosmetic blemishes in order to get an incredibly good deal.

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I’m 6’ tall with "average torso/leg ratio" ( 34” inseam) and the ~55cm custom frame fits me perfectly, but the bike can be tailored to fit folks a good bit taller or smaller than me.

The upgraded 1x10 SRAM index shifting setup provides a wide range of ratios, is very responsive and allowed for a chain keeper to be installed which prevents dropped chains during folding & unfolding.

Upgrades/Accessores:

- 1x10 Speed SRAM drivetrain
---- X9 MTB Style Trigger Shifter
---- Rival Rear Derailleur
---- 11x28t SRAM PG1070 Cassette

---- Rival Crankset with 56T chain-ring & protector

- Velocity Aeroheat rims

- Shimano Alfine Dynamo front hub (disc compatible)

- SRAM Disc Brake Compatible Rear Hub

- Chris King Gripnut Headset

- BF Foldable Stem

- Upgraded Avid Single Digit 7 V-Brakes 

- Scwalbe Stelvio tires
- Ergon GC2 Grips

- Disc brake and front derailleur braze-ons on frame to be “future-proof”
- BF Flite TravelCase Black + BF packing system

- BF Travel Bag (to enable ‘smuggling’ your baby into non-bike friendly offices, buses etc)

- Fenders (Pocket Llama style for increased rigidity & clearance compared to NWT fenders)

- BF Low mount packable front rack

Cost over $2500 new, asking $1450 "cash" picked up in Southern California or $1575 Paypal Shipped via UPS ground to lower 48 US.

Email: paul at pdonohoe.com or call eight O five 68O O741

Walk, Bike, E-Bike, it's all good!

Original Post at Ecovelo.info:

LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT OF TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS

Source: Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Options for Commuters, page 11.

In her Life Cycle Assessment of Transportation Options for Commuters, Shreya Dave at MIT analyzed the complete life cycles of various modes of transportation to compare their environmental impacts.

As you’d expect, human powered forms of transportation are much less polluting than those involving fossil fuel. One surprise in the report is that the differences between walking, conventional bicycling, and e-assist bicycling are negligible. From the conclusion:

The results reported in the previous section show the significant environmental as well as economic (in terms of energy purchased) benefit of using human-powered forms of transportation. According to this study, walking, conventional bicycling and electric bicycling are release exactly the same amount of greenhouse gas emissions. While an electric bicycle consumes more energy (both to produce and to operate) and releases the associated greenhouse gases, a conventional bicycle requires the operator to work harder and breathe more heavily. In effect, the impact of the electric bicycle is entirely negligible. All forms of personal transport are at least three times better than any other form of commuter transport.

Source Links:

http://www.ecovelo.info/2011/08/15/life-cycle-assessment-of-transportation-options/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ecovelo%2Fposts+%28EcoVelo%29

http://www.pietzo.com/storage/downloads/Pietzo_LCAwhitepaper.pdf 

How to become a cycling 'ambassador' | Matt Seaton | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Maybe increasing the numbers of cyclists is easier/cheaper than we think, this from the UK Guardian:

How to become a cycling 'ambassador'

A new cyclists' initiative has become a buzzword in US bike advocacy, but what does it mean to be one?

What does it mean to be a cycling 'ambassador'? Photograph: Scott Markewitz/Getty Images

There is a rather unlikely new vogue word in cycling circles: ambassador.
I'm trying to get the images of the Ferrero Rocher ad out of my head (the euro-kitsch classic in which those almost inedible bonbons are handed round by flunkies at an embassy party: "Monsieur, with these Rocher, you're really spoiling us"), because actually the cycling ambassadorial role is a fine and noble one.
Just this week, a bike shop in Portland, Oregon – which is widely seen as a countercultural cycling nirvana in the automobile-loving US – launched an initiative it's calling "21Ambassadors". According to the mission statement:

"To ride a bicycle is to be part of a community, to share a common experience, as much as it is about good health and helping the environment […] We believe that as a community we should support each other in bad times as well as good. We, the 21 Ambassadors are here to help you. When tires flat and spokes break, when chains fail and gears groan, when you need a hand, we hope to be there to assist."

A kind of cross between Bicycle Repair Man and the Big Society, cynics might say. But Kyle Von Hoetzendorff of 21st Avenue Bicycles is getting plenty of applicants, within hours of the launch of the programme, ready to make the ambassadors' commitments:

• To stop and offer assistance to fellow cyclists.
• To follow all rules of the road and set the standard for exemplary riding behaviour.
• To carry their Road Aid kit with them on all rides.

How to become a cycling 'ambassador' | Matt Seaton | Environment | guardian.co.uk

Why not pedal for just one short errand this week?

You don't HAVE to BE Traffic today.

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Bicycling Revolution - Jeff Mapes

Had the opportunity to attend Jeff Mapes free lecture that was very well attended at our Downtown Library last Thursday night.  Jeff's message was encouraging, but not entirely sugar coated positive spin, with regards to the rate of progress being made in providing Americans with a viable option to driving their car everywhere for every purpose.  
His premise was that ideally people would be free to choose the right tool for the right transportation job, not be forced into using an automobile exclusively.  Quite often for Jeff and more and more Americans (urban dwellers especially) this freedom to choose more and more means using a bicycle for local trips instead of a car or SUV.  Jeff traveled the world to observe and report on the topic and he commented that a relatively modest investment in bicycle related infrastructure can pay huge dividends to community's quality of life by reducing traffic and polution while improving the health of citizens.
I did pick up a copy of his book and am part way into it, so far it's been a very worthwhile read.   I'll follow up with another post once I've gotten through the rest of his text.

Big Dummy - Soccer Style

Yes, as a matter of fact that is 8 balls, a 6'x 12' goal and a kid on the back of my bike, why do you ask?

Divide Peak

The Sunday morning "Team" MTB outing this week was just a small group with Fastrack and Jesse in town from Houston joining in the near perfect outing. We started early in overcast conditions in Montecito and climbed up out of the clouds via Romero road and about 30 minutes out and across sunny Divide Peak fireroad for a nice view across the SB Channel to the islands poking out of the clouds.
Stats:
Duration: 3:45:13
Distance: 32.5 mi
Elevation Gain: 4487 ft
Very nice!

 

Happiness at 3200', Ready to Descend!