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Category Archives: Media – Winnebiko II
Super Bike – Sun Tabloid
I always got a kick out of making it into the tabloids – fortunately, I’ve never been enough in the public eye for it to be a real problem, and a little breathless truth-stretching is an amusing break from the … Continue reading
Telephones and the Mobile Office – Omni
This seems almost quaint now, as I post this in 2012… reading about the teething pains with cellular phones, cordless, and answering machines. Cellular, in particular, was such a complex jungle that I bicycled with a fat directory of service … Continue reading
High-tech Biker is Motorhome Enthusiast – Motorhome
At the end of the Winnebiko II adventure covering both coasts of the US, my Computing Across America book finally came out… and I bought an ancient school bus in Florida to use as a mothership for an open-ended media … Continue reading
Steve Roberts: technobiker – IEEE Institute
This piece in the news supplement to the IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) came at the beginning of the long Silicon Valley BEHEMOTH-building layover. Such publicity helped immensely during the team-building phase… without my übergeek volunteers, that … Continue reading
Winnebiko II at COMDEX 1988 – Asahi
This Japanese computer magazine caught an excellent photo during my week in the Chips & Technologies booth at COMDEX (November 1988 in Las Vegas). As I recall, we rolled the bike through the exhibit hall and into the parking lot, … Continue reading
The Easy Riding Hacker – Telocator
This article by Alan Reiter really captured the technological intensity of early cellular phones… I mounted one on my bicycle in 1988, and became something of a celebrity for that alone. I remember riding the bike through Silicon Valley, and … Continue reading
It’s a Bytecycle Built for 2 – The Columbian
I always loved visiting sponsors… getting to know my contacts face-to-face, taking plant tours, demonstrating the bike for employees, and doing a bit of local media to give the company some fresh high-tech human-interest PR. This was a fun one, … Continue reading
Computer Nomad Bikes Where Others Go to Fly – Oshkosh Northwestern
I spent a few days at the brutally hot 1988 EAA Convention (Experimental Aircraft Association) in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. People fly from all over the world to be part of this, and the scale was stunning. Naturally, my bike was a … Continue reading
Winnebiko II on CNN Science and Technology Report, July 1988
This is my first attempt at dubbing one of the ancient VHS copies of bike-era TV coverage. There is a mountain of this stuff, slowly eroding, that needs to be converted into bits and released into the wild… a somewhat … Continue reading
Telecommuting Through America – Mobile Communications Business
This is one of a flurry of cellular industry trade journal articles that popped out in 1988, covering the somewhat audacious and absurd addition of a 3-watt bag phone to the bike (at the cusp between the Winnebiko II and … Continue reading
