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DescriptionContact her via email, lynettec@bikefriday.com Cell: 541-513-7711 (Blackberry) Rides: Pocket Crusoe, Pocket Rocket Pro Petite, tikit What does the Gal Do On a Friday? Website: www.galfromdownunder.com Bio: www.galfromdownunder.com/bio Blog: www.galfromdownunder.com/blog Store: www.galfromdownunder.com/store Best of Gal on YouTube: www.galfromdownunder.com/movies/bestof For the cheap and choosy when visiting Eugene: Eat and do these things Just What does a Customer Evangelist Do On a Friday? I'm off the front with the fastest Fridays, like British Hour Record holder Rob English, Race Across America legend Lon Haldeman and Coach Fred and Ed of RoadBikeRider.com – badge-wearing members of the Friday fold. Is a Bike Friday any good, you ask? Don't ask me, ask the pros - if you can catch them. There's a secret about little wheels they're not telling you. The pace relaxes a moment as Lon tells the group about his upcoming expedition to Peru on his Air Glide, pulling the suitcase trailer and taking supplies to the 85 kids at the Ocopa orphanage and building a school in Iquitos. About now I'm done sprinting and my Friday draws level with a pair of New World Tourists. Their life support systems are neatly distributed among four small bags and a suitcase trailer. "We're doing Alaska to the Cape this year," they shout. "We did Paris-Brest-Paris last year!" Drafting close behind is a tandem, powered by what seems to be an elderly couple, except they have the legs of Lance himself. "Beauty about a Friday – you can get your leg over the @#$% thing," shouts the stoker, as they crank up a hill. So maybe it's true what they say about little wheels … Dropping back a little, I rub handlebars with a man on Pocket Rocket says, "When I don't want anyone to talk to me I ride my [other bike] - and sure enough, no one talks to me." Bike Friday – a social life in a suitcase? Right on his tail is a very small, Bantam Friday, ridden by an even smaller rider, who answers the standard question, "are you doing the whole thing on that little bike?" with a giant grin. He was last seen on El Tour de Tucson sticking on the wheel of his 6'4" brother, for 120 miles. And look, I just passed Heinz Stucke, the "World's Most Traveled Man By Bicycle", stopped by the side of the road with his fully laded Pocket Llama, taking photos of undeniable proof for his latest Guinness World Record. Finally, at the back, where I belong, with a camera full of footage and a head full of stories to share with you on the Bike Friday website. You've just ridden in the slipstream of just another of my days at the office, except you're heading home, and I'm heading to a surf a couch somewhere in the hinterland of the Bike Friday fold. Yes, Lance, it's not about the fold … it's everything about the fold. The Galfromdownunder |
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