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09-15-25 | 08:32 PM

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cyccommute

Mad bike riding scientist

Joined: Nov 2004

Posts: 29,210

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From: Denver, CO

Bikes: Some silver ones, a red one, a black and orange one, and a few titanium ones

My rigs over the years.

1981 Virginia. My first tour.

1982. Central Colorado. 7 lb tent. Cook gear was 3 aluminum pots…3qt, 1.5qt, 8” skillet…with the handles removed. Probably 70 lb of gear.

1983. Northern Colorado. Rode over Rabbit Ears Pass. It was a shorter trip with less stuff.

1984. Scotland. Greatest tour of my life.

1985. First mountain bike tour. Utilized several old rail trails to cross the mountains. (Detailed in “Old School When It Wasn’t…”

1996. The trailer years. This one was a Wheelie trailer which attached to the seatpost and was one of the worst trailers I’ve ever used. Every time I braked on a downhill, the trailer lifted the rear wheel off the ground. It was very disconcerting.

1998. Estes Park over Trail Ridge Road and Loveland Pass to Georgetown. The air over the whole trip was “sipping’ air”.

2003. Lower third of the Lewis and Clark Trail. Sioux Falls, SD to St. Louis, MO (Solo Without Pie)

2005. The western third of the Lewis and Clark Trail with my daughter (Picking the Scablands).

2008. KATY Trail with my wife. (The Days of Wineless Roads)

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Stuart Black
Dreamin' of Bemidji Down the Mississippi (in part)
Plan Epsilon Around Lake Michigan in the era of Covid
Gold Fever Three days of dirt in Colorado
Pokin' around the Poconos A cold ride around Lake Erie
Dinosaurs in Colorado A mountain bike guide to the Purgatory Canyon dinosaur trackway
Solo Without Pie. The search for pie in the Midwest.
Picking the Scablands. Washington and Oregon, 2005. Pie and spiders on the Columbia River!

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