BIKEFRIDAY IN ALASKA, 2002

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Here's a bug-on-the-handlebar view ofBike Friday's inaugural visit to Anchorage and Fairbanks in August2002. Click on any image to see it bigger. Thanks to Derek and LeslieHoward, Rocky and Gail Reifenstuhl, Janet North and Robert Bogucki,Larry Knapman, Simon Rakower, The Bicycle Shop Anchorage, The Fairbanks Cycle Cluband All Weather SportsFairbanks for keeping us from the cold ... See the new Bike Friday Club of Americawebpage for information on your local Chapter - Fairbanks, Anchorage andJuneau (soon!).

LynetteChiang, TimLink
The Bike Friday TravelTeam

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Alaska... where people are bold, said customerLeslie 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 theirhands 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 behis next bike
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Lynetteadvertising Bike Friday Crusoeand Burley jackets
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Hey, Lynette's bike fits me and she's at leastfour times older than me!
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Jim Burkholder is first to arrive at the inauguralBike 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 travelwith 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 BoardMember 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 Showat The Bicycle Shop...
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Great turn out for the Cuba by 'Friday SlideShow...
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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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RockyReifenstuhl, überathlete and multiple winner of the hardcoreIditasport race. Can we get him to do it on a Friday? 
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Taxi from the airport
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AllWeather 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'hermatching PocketLlamas...
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Rocky and Gail Reifenstuhl can't exactly rideRocky's Air Glidetogether ... 
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At Janet North and Robert Bogucki's ridgetophideout 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 wantone."
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Oy, what's this then?
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Fairbanks demo... "that old guy could be amillionaire..."
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When she's not being school counsellor at LathropHigh School, Nina Tartakoff rides her BF in Mexico...
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BeaverSports, Fairbanks, prospective dealer
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Someone doesn't like having McDonald's for aneighbor
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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 mooseproof
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AllWeather Sports big fat rim for snow and tundra... 
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AllWeather Sports big fat rims
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AllWeather Sports big fat rims
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"Yes, Simon, I think the world would be a farbetter place with big fat rims...".