Now I should note that this is something that make Superior, Wisconsin different from Seattle or Portland or Eugene. Here in Superior, you can leave a bike locked to a lightpost with a flimsy lock and it will stay untouched for a month. In those other cities I mentioned, the bike would be stolen or stripped within hours. Now I should be clear, I didn’t strictly need this bike. I’m retired, I have three perfectly good bikes and to be honest, one would really do just fine for the riding I’m doing these days.
Then it looks me right in the eye and I belatedly realize that this dog is a wolf and I figure I’m dead. But the wolf scowls at me and leaps away. You made a mistake when you stole my bike. You are probably wondering how I tracked you down, where all this blood came from, and why there’s a severed deer head here instead of the bike you stole. I’ll explain, not because I owe you an explanation, but because I want you to think twice before you go out to steal another bike. You came very close to making a fatal mistake and I want you to know just how close you came.
Feeling like I was burning up doesn’t even begin to describe it. I felt like I was baking in my own skin. I also felt like it was damn important that I get away from everybody.
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I really wanted to make the bike into a fixed gear, but it turned out the one thing I didn’t have in my parts stash was a fixed cog. But when I posted about my initial conversion on my blog, my pal Steve in Minneapolis dug through his parts stash, found a 16 tooth Surly fixed cog and dropped it in the mail to me. The Schwinn World Sport was a not fancy but decent sport touring bike of it’s day.
Eric has been riding bikes of all kinds for over fifty years. In 1994, Eric raced in the Baja 1000 off-road Motorcycle Race, one of the most prestigious off-road races in the world, attracting competitors from six different continents annually. Eric’s passion for biking continued when his family moved to Litchfield County, where he and his kent bike wife often rode together. They soon had children who they involved in the sport at an early age, and biking became a way of life for the Leitz family. Eric first started coaching mountain biking in 2018. He continues to be amazed at how quickly the technology for the sport has changed and notes that as the bikes advance, so do the trails.
This makes sense to me, and for years companies have made pedal reflectors and reflective ankle bands with this idea in mind. The new element is active illumination of the cyclist’s legs. I reached the point where I had to spend some more money on this project so I rode my Allant over the bridge to Duluth. The two pictures above show my first cut at customisation. The mirror, the bell, the light, the yellow cable housing, the bar tape and the Jandd frame bag were all things I had in my bike shed.
The South Kent School race courses include almost every element seen in Eastern Mountain Biking. Great care has been taken to help protect the local watershed and hillside hydrology while tackling the challenge of invasive kent bike species. All trail sections have been designed and built to be safe with the professional trail building crew signing off on all designs, features, and routes. The Breezer Bike brand was started in the 70’s by Joe Breeze.