Show Posts
1
Midwest / Re: Midwest Icebreaker
« on: October 01, 2009, 01:42:58 pm »
Hello group.
My Name is Al and I live in MN, in the Twin Cities area. Up here we boast that we have some of the best and longest paved trails. But that is not a big deal to me; it is road touring that is my intended focus.
For me the longest tours have been three instances of the RAGBRAI. That is what got me back into biking six years ago.
My Fleet has morphed since that time: I started out on a recumbent trike, then moved to a long wheel based recumbent, and now upgraded to a Carbon Fiber Road bike. So that fleet was a BigWheel trike, replaced by the Easy Racer Tour Easy. I have added the aforementioned CF Road bike just this summer. I also have a modified mountain bike that I use as a utility vehicle and a Bike Safety instruction bike.
Getting me back on the bike has eliminated the perceived need for a recumbent as I reduced some of the aging factors that I was facing originally.
I do intend to do the RAGBRAI this next season as well and more importantly some one of the ACA tours for a week.
Looking for success stories and recommendations from this group on good tours.
My Name is Al and I live in MN, in the Twin Cities area. Up here we boast that we have some of the best and longest paved trails. But that is not a big deal to me; it is road touring that is my intended focus.
For me the longest tours have been three instances of the RAGBRAI. That is what got me back into biking six years ago.
My Fleet has morphed since that time: I started out on a recumbent trike, then moved to a long wheel based recumbent, and now upgraded to a Carbon Fiber Road bike. So that fleet was a BigWheel trike, replaced by the Easy Racer Tour Easy. I have added the aforementioned CF Road bike just this summer. I also have a modified mountain bike that I use as a utility vehicle and a Bike Safety instruction bike.
Getting me back on the bike has eliminated the perceived need for a recumbent as I reduced some of the aging factors that I was facing originally.
I do intend to do the RAGBRAI this next season as well and more importantly some one of the ACA tours for a week.
Looking for success stories and recommendations from this group on good tours.