People start riding their bike to work for many different reasons. Terrible traffic, congested or hard to access public transportation, expensive parking, etc. My path to becoming a bike commuter has nothing to do with any of those things.

Working late last night, there was a knock at the door. Drop-in visitors are typically folks who have seen Faraday's sign in the window and are curious to learn more or take a test ride. At this time of night, well past dark, that seemed unlikely.

The popular web series and podcast This Week in Startups swung through SF recently and Faraday founder Adam Vollmer had a chance to sit down and talk bikes, design, and startup life with the show's host Jason Calacanis.

We are happy to announce that Faraday has begun shipping bikes from our first production run of Porteurs! So far dozens of our Kickstarter backers in the Bay Area have received their bikes, and by the end of July we will have put close to 200 Faradays on the road.

Faraday is at CES this week, and we're very excited to be unveiling the brand-new, pre-production Porteur that will begin shipping only a few short months from today! We're happy to have a featured spot in the booth of E Ink, whose display is featured on the Porteur's handlebar controller.

We're heads-down on a Saturday afternoon here at Faraday headquarters soldering, coding, and building bikes. We wanted to take a break from all the fun, though, to share a big announcement: Pre-orders for Faraday's first production run end THIS WEEKEND!