BIKE FRIDAY IN ALASKA, 2002

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Here's a bug-on-the-handlebar view of Bike Friday's inaugural visit to Anchorage and Fairbanks in August 2002. Click on any image to see it bigger. Thanks to Derek and Leslie Howard, Rocky and Gail Reifenstuhl, Janet North and Robert Bogucki, Larry Knapman, Simon Rakower, The Bicycle Shop Anchorage, The Fairbanks Cycle Club and All Weather Sports Fairbanks for keeping us from the cold ... See the new Bike Friday Club of America webpage for information on your local Chapter - Fairbanks, Anchorage and Juneau (soon!).

Lynette Chiang, Tim Link
The Bike Friday Travel Team

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Alaska... where people are bold, said customer Leslie Howard
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Derek and Leslie Howard, BF hosts in Anchorage
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Derek and Leslie each have a drop bar New World Tourist
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Crystal and Spencer Howard can't wait to get their hands on those little wheeled bikes
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Winter comes fast to Anchorage...
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Spencer reckons the Air Llama is going to be his next bike
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Lynette advertising Bike Friday Crusoe and Burley jackets
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Hey, Lynette's bike fits me and she's at least four times older than me!
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Jim Burkholder is first to arrive at the inaugural Bike Friday Club of Anchorage ride
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Bike Friday Club of Anchorage, Aug 2002
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Passerby Julia Sanchez: "Are you sure I can travel with it?"
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Anchorage social ride on the Tony Knowles Trail...
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Moose!
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Tim Link, Moose and Arctic Bike Club Board Member David Predeger - "hurry up and take the %$#@ photo!"
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Dr Jerome List with matching Air Llama and plane
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On the trail
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On the trail
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Dick Bruce was there
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The Bicycle Shop, Anchorage, prospective dealer
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Great turn out for the Cuba by 'Friday Slide Show at The Bicycle Shop...
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Great turn out for the Cuba by 'Friday Slide Show...
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Prospective dealer The Bicycle Shop in Anchorage ... manager Ray Clayton on the right
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What a welcome at Fairbanks Airport!
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Rocky Reifenstuhl, überathlete and multiple winner of the hardcore Iditasport race. Can we get him to do it on a Friday? 
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Taxi from the airport
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All Weather Sports, world renowned winter sports specialists
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Larry Knapman and his SatRDay
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Bike Friday Club of Fairbanks...
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"OY! Get a bike!!!!"
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Can I beat Simon's SEVEN?
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Larry wins the sprint against a Colnago
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Nina Tartakoff and Richard Kemnitz with his'n'her matching Pocket Llamas...
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Rocky and Gail Reifenstuhl can't exactly ride Rocky's Air Glide together ... 
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At Janet North and Robert Bogucki's ridgetop hideout in Fairbanks, Alaska.
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Northernmost Bike Friday service call
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Larry shows the Fairbanks folk how it's done..
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First-time fascination
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"This one is even MORE fun!"
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Not bad for a first timer...
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"I've been looking at these for years. Now I want one."
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Oy, what's this then?
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Fairbanks demo... "that old guy could be a millionaire..."
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When she's not being school counsellor at Lathrop High School, Nina Tartakoff rides her BF in Mexico...
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Beaver Sports, Fairbanks, prospective dealer
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Someone doesn't like having McDonald's for a neighbor
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A 'vole', or tailless mouse
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Displaying your wares... Alaskan style
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Alaska up close
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Alaska up close
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Monet in Anchorage
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View from Janet's ridgetop rustic paradise
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That's one serious tarp...
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Guest tent: surprisingly stormproof and moose proof
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All Weather Sports big fat rim for snow and tundra... 
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All Weather Sports big fat rims
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All Weather Sports big fat rims
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"Yes, Simon, I think the world would be a far better place with big fat rims...".