When I was building out the Ibis I ordered some DaVinci cable splitters and I noticed this on their website: Easy-Splits also work for quick handlebar conversions. If you have compatible road and mountain shifters and derailleurs, as well as compatible brakes. You could easily switch between road and mountain bars for different types of …
On May 6, 2017, Jerry & Odette rode from their home in Seattle to Port Angeles, then up Vancouver Island and across to Vancouver and out the Fraser River valley to Harrison Hot Springs. They returned to the USA at Sumas and rode through Bellingham and Whidbey Island for a total of about 475 miles in …
As we start our fifth season on this bike here are some developments and thoughts triggered by a website upgrade that forced me to touch the original page again: We’ve flown with this bike (Scotland, France, Yukon) and we’ve done some strenuous tours on it (Wallowas.) the bike has performed well. It came with alloy …
After about a year of riding the Ibis I decided to proceed with the planned upgrade of the drivetrain. After my experience with Rene Herse cranks and chainrings on my Fuji, I decided to buy a tandem set from Compass and convert to 10-speed while I was at it. I bought an ultegra 10-speed rear derailleur …
Bike Log (other years) 12/31 – Interurban to 100th to Meridian. Across I-5 and Lake City Way on 115th to Bartlett and 125th to the Burke Gilman and Juanita Way to 153rd to Simonds to 100th to 145th to 105thand Norway Hill. Tolt Pipeline Trail across I-405 and down to Woodinville-Redmond Rd. and the Sammamish Waterway trail. Evergreen’s “Thrilla” route on the power line trail to the Redmond Watershed …
Odette got me a 1998 Litespeed Classic for my birthday in 2016 and I got her a 2000 Litespeed Tuscany for hers. As I stripped the Shimano 105 components off the Tuscany frame in order to build it up with a Campagnolo groupset, I started thinking about what I could do with those 105 parts. …
Our regular cycling partner, and one of Odette’s colleagues from work, had physical problems and was off his bike much of the winter. I got a text from him one day asking what size frame I rode and I replied, asking if he was building up to borrowing a tandem. He laughed and said …
(other years) 12/31 – Fremont to Dexter to 2nd to Waterfront Trail to West Seattle Loop. Home via the Locks and the Golden Gardens. Here’s a map. 40 miles on the Ibis with Odette. (Q4 split = 12,621 with 4,369 on the tandem) 12/30 – Interurban trail to I-5 crossing at Maple, Manor Way to 164th; 168th to Olympic View to Edmonds and Woodway to Innis …
Gena’s Bike In the summer of 2015 a colleague of mine from Navos was moving and I volunteered to tune up her bike as she was putting stuff into storage. When she dropped it off for me the wheels were off but it was otherwise intact. She explained that she got the bike new …
From July 23 to August 5, 2015 Jerry and Will travelled in Ladakh Will has done some epic bike trips with other graduate students in his program – notably his trip to China in 2013. He and a classmate named Ravi Bhoraskar had talked for some time about riding in the Indian Himalayas, but nothing …
