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This is our story of celebrating our 10th Anniversary by crossing the USA on our recumbent tandem bicycle.
When we (Karen and Brian Managan of Rochester NY) married on June 25th of '94, we celebrated by taking a tour around the perimeter of the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York ... our "backyard", so to speak. We rode our brand new custom road touring tandem, a "Sterling" built by Steve Bilenky.
Our Sterling/Bilenky Custom Road Touring Tandem (June 28th, 1994)
Although it's a beautiful ride, (our favorite of 3 tandems we own) we have always thought that being on the road all day, and eventually getting tired and sore would cause us to droop our heads and stare at the asphalt miles rolling by, instead of looking UP at the beautiful country we're riding thru. What a WASTE!
So, for THIS trip ... Here's the bike we're using:
The Rans Screamer Recumbent Tandem
Ok ... kinda weird, kinda heavy, and for us ... kinda slooooow climbing up the hills. But, no matter how tired we get on that thing, we always have our heads up, and we don't get the aches and pains from riding all day ... just tired, and that's to be expected anyway.
So the plan is to load up everything on this monster and it's "Beast of Burden", the Bob trailer, and head out from San Francisco on May 28th on Adventure Cycling's Western Express Bicycle Route. We'll climb the Sierra's near Lake Tahoe, head straight (or as straight as we can go) across the Nevada basin to Utah and Colorado, and connect to the original TransAmerica Trail at Pueblo. From there, we finish out the trip by crossing Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and finally to Virginia and the Atlantic coast at Yorktown. 3800 miles.
If we can work it out, space and weight-wise, we'll take my titanium Mac laptop along to store photos, write stories, record video, and edit this blog. If we decide to cut the weight, we'll use: Our Other Blog to get the latest news out to ya'll.
Just one month till departure!
Brian
This is our story of celebrating our 10th Anniversary by crossing the USA on our recumbent tandem bicycle.
When we (Karen and Brian Managan of Rochester NY) married on June 25th of '94, we celebrated by taking a tour around the perimeter of the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York ... our "backyard", so to speak. We rode our brand new custom road touring tandem, a "Sterling" built by Steve Bilenky.
Our Sterling/Bilenky Custom Road Touring Tandem (June 28th, 1994)
Although it's a beautiful ride, (our favorite of 3 tandems we own) we have always thought that being on the road all day, and eventually getting tired and sore would cause us to droop our heads and stare at the asphalt miles rolling by, instead of looking UP at the beautiful country we're riding thru. What a WASTE!
So, for THIS trip ... Here's the bike we're using:
The Rans Screamer Recumbent Tandem
Ok ... kinda weird, kinda heavy, and for us ... kinda slooooow climbing up the hills. But, no matter how tired we get on that thing, we always have our heads up, and we don't get the aches and pains from riding all day ... just tired, and that's to be expected anyway.
So the plan is to load up everything on this monster and it's "Beast of Burden", the Bob trailer, and head out from San Francisco on May 28th on Adventure Cycling's Western Express Bicycle Route. We'll climb the Sierra's near Lake Tahoe, head straight (or as straight as we can go) across the Nevada basin to Utah and Colorado, and connect to the original TransAmerica Trail at Pueblo. From there, we finish out the trip by crossing Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, and finally to Virginia and the Atlantic coast at Yorktown. 3800 miles.
If we can work it out, space and weight-wise, we'll take my titanium Mac laptop along to store photos, write stories, record video, and edit this blog. If we decide to cut the weight, we'll use: Our Other Blog to get the latest news out to ya'll.
Just one month till departure!
Brian
Posted: Wed - April 21, 2004 at 11:26 PM
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