Photo | Bike Friday Travel Consultants Job titleBicycle Consultant, Oregon Randonneur, year-round commuter, wannabe triathlete, single-speed bike builder, road bike & recumbent rider
DescriptionPhone (800) 777-0258 ext.: 106 Bike Friday: Enno Orange Nexus-8 New World Tourist, Cream Soda Blue SatRday MKII Tour My first bike was a Schwinn Stingray with a purple sparkle banana seat and a "sissy bar". My first "real" bike was a Raleigh Superbe. It was one of the high points of British cycling design, with a lugged Reynolds frame, Brooks saddle, a Sturmey Archer internal hub and a dynohub lighting system. The next step was a nice Mercian 10-speed, definitely a step above the Schwinn Varsitys and Raleigh Gran Prixs my buddies were riding. I started doing some longer day rides and weekend tours in the Washington, DC area, as well as some rides with my high school and college bike racing clubs. I still have a leather helmet from this era. Both bikes were stolen during my college years, and I went into cycling hibernation for a decade or more. I got back into cycling for fitness, commuting and rail/trail rides, doing it all on one of the early hybrid bikes. Eventually, I moved to Eugene and got "serious" again about cycling, which of course required a new bike. It is a "retro" randonee bike with a lugged steel frame and barcon shifters. In the last couple of years, I have completed a bunch of centuries, and logged a lot of miles day tripping in the Cascades, the Willamette Valley and the Coast Range. I completed my first triathlon at age 44 in 2003 and several 200K brevets in 2006 /2007. Recently, I've been tinkering with building single speed road bikes from vintage steel frames and components. I have made 2 now, one from a Raleigh 27" wheel frame and a mix of old and new components, and another from an Italian racing frame, a cache of vintage Campy Record parts, and a set of new wheels that I built myself (a first for me). I use them extensively for commuting, along with my "hi-tech" Shimano Nexus Bike Friday. We sold our second car when we moved to Eugene, and use bikes extensively for family transportation. I am about 90% car-free personally. My wife is so happy that I started to work at BF, because now I have a captive audience to talk to about bikes, and she is off the hook. You can reach me me at daves@bikefriday.com. My hours are Mon..- Fri., 8:30 am - 5:30 pm and occasionally Sat. 9 am - 4 pm (PST or UST-8) |