Bike Forums - MGaissert

Hi, my Name is Malcolm and I have been biking since I got a green 26 inch bicycle for Christmas of 1950. It was stolen the following year by one of my fellow class mates just as his family decided that our town was too hot for them.

I bought a Raleigh three speed when I was in the Air Force in Turkey in the 1960's. I sold it to a newly arrived Airman when I left for Germany. I wanted more speeds. In Germany I bought an eight speed, two in the front and four in the rear. I also bought a VW so the bike didn't get that much use. But it was fun riding it on the farm roads where I only met geese and ducks and cows and tractors trailing manure spreaders.

Well, this is getting long. I now ride a twenty-three old UniVega hybrid with great Avocet tires. Gets me where I want to go on the pavement. But for the dirt roads I pedal a Mongoose in the Sierra hills. An older Black Diamond I let my brother take back to Georgia when he moved back to take care of Mother when she started knocking off her car's mirrors. My German wife inherited the family house in Germany near Augsburg and since Lufthansa began charging $400 a round trip for the bicycles we left our bikes in Germany that trip, my Gary Fisher aluminum Mtb and her Trek hybrid.

I have biked around the Big Island of Hawaii and the mongooses there are nothing like mine. Mine doesn't have huge teeth and so far I have kept the gears of mine off my legs.