Lewis & Clark Internet Resources

I got on the World Wide Web one day and started to research folding bikes. Someone had mentioned "Bike Friday" and that I should take look at their bikes. I quickly found them on the web. What a great tool the Internet is for instant gratification! I needed a bike that would fold up small enough to fit in the front compartment of my Beluga (Easy Rider double), but yet strong enough to assemble quickly and allow me to tow the kayak and gear along a street, maybe even up a hill. This was obviously not going to be any sissy bike. I needed a rugged folding mountain bike with low, low gearing for towing me plus another 150 pounds of kayak, trailer and gear. Fortunately the folks in Eugene had already come up with the "Pocket Llama" model, which could fold up and go in a suitcase. They even had a little attachment that turned the suitcase into a trailer. I figured right then that this was the bike for me. I left my card with Alan Scholz, one of the founders, and they contacted me later, when they were coming to Renton to put on a bike show. I went with Val to Renton and rode the Pocket Llama extensively and was very intrigued. Meantime, Val looked around the park and checked out the Cedar River nearby.

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