Fred Origins
06-16-08 | 12:14 PM
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Fred A. Birchmore
A man in his 90's, living in Athens, GA, and who cycled around the world in the 1930's on a single speed Reinhardt named after Alexander's horse, Bucephalus, and the bike is now inshrined in the Smithsoanian. Fred has been a life long proponent of cycling.
Mr. Birchmore is the first of the old, tube sock wearing, man who drops roadies. While in Italy he noticed that he kept passing men with numbers on their backs. When he got to the next town, everyone was gathered in the streets, hoisted him on their shoulders and paraded him around, because he had inadvertently won the race.
While in south east Asia, Fred was running low on foods and funds, so he would kill the occasional anaconda for meat and would sell the skin for cash (check the image on the cover of his book, snake and all).
What I've not gone into detail about: Fred hand building a mile long stone wall in his 70's now called "The Great Wall of Athens," Fred and his son rushing British tanks while wearing rain-capes on their touring bikes, Fred being one of the first Westerners to cross Pashtun land in Afghanistan. And it goes on.
Bucephalus
His book, Around the World on a Bicycle
Fred and Bucephalus
Fred more recently
A man in his 90's, living in Athens, GA, and who cycled around the world in the 1930's on a single speed Reinhardt named after Alexander's horse, Bucephalus, and the bike is now inshrined in the Smithsoanian. Fred has been a life long proponent of cycling.
Mr. Birchmore is the first of the old, tube sock wearing, man who drops roadies. While in Italy he noticed that he kept passing men with numbers on their backs. When he got to the next town, everyone was gathered in the streets, hoisted him on their shoulders and paraded him around, because he had inadvertently won the race.
While in south east Asia, Fred was running low on foods and funds, so he would kill the occasional anaconda for meat and would sell the skin for cash (check the image on the cover of his book, snake and all).
What I've not gone into detail about: Fred hand building a mile long stone wall in his 70's now called "The Great Wall of Athens," Fred and his son rushing British tanks while wearing rain-capes on their touring bikes, Fred being one of the first Westerners to cross Pashtun land in Afghanistan. And it goes on.
Bucephalus
His book, Around the World on a Bicycle
Fred and Bucephalus
Fred more recently
