2001 Bent Events Calendar & Bent News
Cycle America
alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent, rec.bicycles.misc, rec.bicycles.rides):
- We just seeded the 2001 bent events calendar. If your event is not
there, or if any details have been left out or are incorrect, pls reply
accordingly.
http://www.bikeroute.com/BentEvents.htm
- We've added a map to our National Bicycle Greenway sponsor Bent Dealer
directory and made other worthy tweaks:
http://www.bikeroute.com/BentDealers.htm
- Over the winter here we've a added a worthy number of new bikes
(especially trikes) to our bent picture gallery. Once you get there, you
will see who is selling what:
http://www.bikeroute.com/BentPics.htm
- We've also revised our bike trailer matrix to also include free bike
trailer plans and the <http://www.pacasaurus.com> housebike and etc:
http://www.bikeroute.com/TrailerMatrix.htm
Other important trailer info:
http://www.bikeroute.com/WhyTrailer.htm
http://www.bikeroute.com/S2KNewsletter/S2k-7TrailPann.html
- Over the holidays we also cleaned up our F R E E bike classifieds and
laid ground rules so that the posting does not get out of hand:
http://www.bikeroute.com/ibrd_cgi/Classifieds/class_ad.cgi
- Higher Gear Cyclery of Longmont, CO renewed as an NBG Anchor Sponsor
dealer. And while I was talking with Buzz Feldman, the owner there, he
told me he biked across the US last summer for the American Lung Assn.
He's 55 years old and did so on a Vision recumbent. He told me the story
about how a week into the ride one of the leaders asked for a show of
hands of all those who had sore butts. All but 5 people raised their
hands. What were they riding? Recumbents! His shop is at:
- Rapid Transit Cycles of Chicago, IL renewed as an NBG Anchor Sponsor
dealer. They are at:
_ The Reynolds Weld Lab people over in Darry, NH, just renewed as NBG
sponsors and indeed they are all about performance. In fact, George
Reynolds tested one of their new designs in the Boston to Montreal race
that he completed over the summer. And he wants his bike to not only smoke
the field on the flats as he did on that ride but he wants to do so on
the ascents as well. Toward that end, he is bringing a recumbent/upright
to the marketplace. Soon he will be sending me pictures but he tells me
that he has to do a two second dismount to move to the upright position
for a climb. He can stay on the bike to switch it back to recumbent.
Sounds like the cutting edge! He tells me it adds three pounds to the bike
and will sell for less than $3,000!
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M A R T I N K R I E G
Bent Since '83, Car Free Since '89, Attacking with Love
Coma, Paralysis, Clinical Death Survivor
'79 & '86 TransAm Vet, "Awake Again" Author
TransAm w/us in 2001: http://www.BikeRoute.com
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