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Route 66 Bicycle Tour – Day 3
Kingman, AZ to Needles, CA – 71 miles Since today was going to be a relatively short day, followed by a long ride the following day, I decided to sleep in and wake up when I felt like it – which ended up being 7AM instead of 6AM! In my mad dash to ship the…
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Route 66 Bicycle Tour – Day 2
Seligman, AZ to Kingman, AZ – 86 miles I forgot to mention that yesterday’s 77 miles was a little shy of my expected 84 miles. My cycling computer must be a bit off, or I must have used the most direct I-40 shoulder in a location where I had originally planned to use the old…
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Route 66 Bicycle Tour – Day 1
Flagstaff, AZ to Seligman, AZ – 77 miles Regular readers of my blog entries from previous bike trips know that I try not just to talk about the riding, but also the people and places along the way. But today was a challenging day, so this day’s entry is (mostly) about the riding. So deal…
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Route 66 Bicycle Tour – Day 0 Addendum
I forgot to mention that earlier today I had noticed that the heads on the stem bolts on the bike were starting to show a little rust. While it was fresh on the mind, I figured I’d go to the hardware store and swap these out for stainless bolts, and I’d also do the same…
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Route 66 Bicycle Tour – Day 0
Later today is the drive to LA Union Station to ship the bike to Flagstaff via Amtrak freight. Tonight I drive to another Amtrak station in the desert (can’t say where, I’ll ruin the suspense), stash the car someplace safe, take the train to Flagstaff, then ride back to the car to finish the tour.…
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How I Blogged Bicycling Across the USA in 2001
(This page was originally written in 2001 to describe the setup I used on my cross-USA bicycle tour. The content on this page is now hopelessly out of date, but archived for historical interest. My modern day version of this setup is described in an another blog post.) When I travel, or go on multi-day…
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Cross USA 2001 Bicycle Tour – Reflections
A family member is writing a paper about my Cross USA 2001 bicycle tour. I have a web page on the tour with daily updates (before the term “blog” was coined) and a one page summary. She asked a bunch of questions – much more interesting than “how many flat tires did you get?” The…
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Broken Air Compressor
I went to use my Husky H1506F air compressor last weekend. When I saw that it wouldn’t get higher than 25 psi pressure, I knew there was something wrong. So when I called their technical support, they were thinking it was probably a damaged valve plate. They asked me to open up the compressor and…
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Bike Across USA – Day 70 – Boxborough to Beverly, MA – 46 miles
It was nice of Jeff to make breakfast and leave his Rubel bike map with me so I could navigate the curvy suburban Boston streets. Just before I got to Route 62 in Concord – oh drat, a phlat! Actually, it was more like a slow leak, so being the last day of the trip…
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Bike Across USA – Day 69 – Keene, NH to Boxborough, MA – 65 miles
The forecast low temperature for the night was 47 degrees. So nobody was in a hurry to get going in the morning. I was the earliest to leave, at 9:30, while the others were still in bed. We said our goodbyes, as I would be detouring from their route and be on my own again.…
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