Bike Pages

I love riding bikes. I love looking at bikes and thinking about bikes and working on bikes and talking about bikes. I especially like steel bikes that are designed for many years of comfortable riding. I like fenders. I like big tires; I like comfortable riding positions. I like lugged construction... (but I'm tending toward the utilitarian value of TIG'd).

This page is pretty static. In general, it's a couple months behind. For the latest go to my blog at http://cyclingspokane.blogspot.com/.

Last updated: June 2008

Current Bikes

• 1991 Bridgestone RB-T. Beloved bike.
• 1992 Bridgestone RB-T. A hacked RB-T. Hacked in a good way...
• 1993 Bridgestone RB-1. Fancy go-fast bike
• 1983 Trek 720 - Daily fixed gear trails and traffic bike
• 1983 Trek 520 - The do everything bike -- reworked by Hairy Gary.
• Liza's Mixte - An old Fuji "tourer" turned to an internally geared practical city bike.
• Bike Friday Family Tandem. Maddie's Bike.

Bikes I've Loved Before -- Now Gone or on Loan

• 1994 Bridgestone RB-1 -- Liza's go-fast bike -- now converted to 650B commuter/day-tourer bike.
• Schwinn Snow Bike.
• Fuji Fixed Frankenstien. Snow bike, kid hauler, grocery getter.
• 1991? Paramount PDG 70 Mountain bike - I wanted to build up a bike that I could treat like I treated my BMX when I was a kid. A single speed was the answer. I sold some parts off this; and the frame went to Alex Wetmore.
• 58 cm Rivendell Atlantis frameset. This sold to a nice guy in Missoula by the name of John. It is for his wife, Elaine.
• 1986 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport - A winter bike.
• 1993 Bridgestone X0-1 - Tried everything. Great bike. Gone now.
• 1985 Specialized Stumpjumper Sport - With a 7-spd internally geared/coaster brake hub and a kid seat, this makes a great tooling around bike. Too bad it got ripped off. errrrg.
• 1988 Bridgestone CB-1 -- My wife's hauler/grocery-getter bike.
• early 90's Shogun Touring bike - This great frame ended up going to my friend Patrick.
• 1990 Novara X-R cyclocross
• 2005 Rivendell Quickbeam
• 197x? Liza's Raliegh - Liza's daily fixed gear rider.
• Rivendell Atlantis - A dream of a bike. Loaded touring specialist.
• 1990 Bridgestone MB-2 + XtraCycle - The tough all rounder and grocery getter. On long-term loan to my buddy Jon.
• Burley Tandem.I was going to sell this but changed my mind. It's a beauty. It's on loan until Maddie grows into it.

Stuff

• Chopping a fender on a Quickbeam for a quick flip
• My buddy, Joe, ran across a real rare find recently: a Bridgestone Atlantis rando/cyclo-touring bike from the 80's. He alerted me about it; I bought it; we sold it; we both made a few bucks. I really wish this bike fit me. It was a good fit for my wife but she just was not interested. It's in Tennessee now with a woman named Margot. That's a good ending. Pics of the bike here and here.
• Road finds.
• work shop photos. I'm lucky to have a chunk of the basement for a shop. I wish I wasn't such a slob though.
  Updated 10/02/07 Check out the new work space. Crazy tidy with Liza being the head mechanic in the family now.
• Some bike photos from Liza and Maddie's Italy trip.

Some Past Bike Trips

• Tour across Washington, 2003
• Tour across Washington, 2004 Pictures only
• The ride up to my father's house in Barstow, WA A trip I take frequently
• Spokane to Pioneer Park, ID A cold and wet overnighter in April 2006.
• Galloping Goose Trail, Vancouver Island, BC -- Summer 06 This was suppossed to be a week-long tour over logging roads, but we changed plans as we figured out our crummy map was a pack of lies! See Alex Wetmore's tour report here.
• Mt. St. Helen's/Gifford Pinchot tour -- Summer 07. The best yet. Alex pics here. My pics here. Alex's report here and here. My report here and here. If you don't want to jump all over the place, I think Alex's write up here is the best.

Spokane Area Bike Rides

The Spokane area is a great place to explore on bike. I ride all over the place and there are a number of spots -- mostly mountain areas-- that I have yet to explore. I hope to document the best rides here. If you are visiting Spokane (or if you live here!) and want to take ride and explore the area, send me an e-mail. I love to show off our area. If you're visiting and you're bikeless, I can probably find a bike for you to borrow while your here.

The one common theme among these rides is that they will surely all contain some amount of dirt/off road travel. I really like combining long road rides with chunks and pieces of dirt and/or single track. (BTW: If you know a good software program that makes documenting/mapping these rides easier, please let me know. My first ride write-up took me forever, and it looks like hell. And that was with the help of a Mapping program that converted the trip to html.)

All of my routes are now be posted to bikely.com.
Check out the links below if you want to see the hack job I did before I discovered bikely ...at least you get pictures.

• Cheney Loop -- a classic, but with a couple twists from the usual out-and-back route.
• Newman Lake -over-the-hill-Loop. The best chunk of this ride is on dirt, mountain roads. Here's a pic from the first attempt.