• 2006 Dahon Photography Competition
  The first annual Dahon Photo Competition was launched this February and has been a great success... but we want more! Get snapping and send us your best pix and you could win a US$2,500 custom Dahon!
• Dahon Ciao Crowned "Bike of the Year"
  At this years FIET RAI show in Amsterdam, the Dahon Ciao was awarded
  the Bike of the Year. It’s the first time a folding bicycle has won
  the award and the Ciao won over entries from Cannondale, Trek,
  Batavus, Sachs, and Sparta.

10 Questions With ... Elden Nelson, the Fat Cyclist

This issue of the Dahon Dispatch, we talk with The Fat Cyclist - blog-child of Elden Nelson. The Fat Cyclist is a lighthearted look at all things cycling created as a space for Elden to track his fitness levels by getting on his bike(s) and simply enjoying the ride. more>>

Our Interview with Rick Hartwell

In this issue of the Dahon Dispatch we talk to Rick Hartwell, Dahon Product Development Manager about the limited edition Hon Solo. more>>

The Hard Way
by Mark Jenkins

It's one of the great regrets of travel: you meet someone on a journey, come to know them intimately in just a few hours, then never see them again. You promise to keep in touch, but it seldom happens. When you get back home your own life takes over, and so does theirs, and the bond begins to fade.

While researching a two-week family trip to St. Petersburg this summer (part of a piano student exchange program for my two daughters), I happened upon a story in City Paper, a Baltic States online 'zine, about a new theme park in Lithuania called Stalin World. Surrounded by barb wire and guard towers, with a replica of a human cattle car and a collection of enormous Soviet era statues, it was said to combine "the charms of Disneyland with the worst of the Soviet gulag prison camp." I couldn't imagine a more macabre, yet twistedly appropriate, post-20th-century tourist attraction. Reading the article, I flashed back to Saulius Kunigenas. more>>

Team Flo report from Moab
A Word from Deep in the Pack
by Jeff VanBlarcom

It first struck me at the grocery store in Moab. Almost everyone in the store was grossly overweight and remarkably unattractive. Such acne! Such prodigious flesh and grotesque expanses of skin! Such difficulty with the counting of the change! I had returned to the world of normal people from the fantasy world of avid mountain bikers at the 24 hours of Moab. Having just spent the last 48 hours or so in a artificially created place where almost everyone is fit and thin, television is a distant memory, lost wedding rings and iPods are returned to their rightful owners almost instantly and the motivation level is extremely high, it was quite a shock. I wanted to go back. I guess that I will have to wait for another year for the party to reconvene. It struck me again, almost literally, as I was on my way out of Moab and a passenger in the car in front of me unabashedly threw a small bag of trash out of the window. more>>

Commuting Safely by Bicycle
by Daniel Mojahedi

Every now and then, among the sea of scooters, taxis, and buses that crowd Taipei's streets, you can see a few brave souls riding along on a bicycle. Many of these people do not ride out of simple economic necessity. On the contrary, some of their bikes are worth more than the scooters that rush by them. So why is it that they ride their bicycles, when there are so many other convenient ways to get around the city? In this article, we will take a look at who is riding, what the government is doing to make the ride easier and more pleasant, and what you can do to get started.

Bicycling in this city has become popular with people of all ages, nationalities, and professions. Some riders are teachers, some are computer programmers, some are businessmen.

Bruce Zen is a twenty-nine-year-old computer programmer who has been riding his bike to work nearly every day for the past three years. He and his wife live in Liuzhangli and work in Xinyi district, leaving Bruce with a two-kilometer ride, something he is able to complete on most days in less than ten minutes. more>>