Steve, Author at Nomadic Research Labs

This rather flip, quirky, tabloid-like piece from the UK scored a prime spot in my collection of newspaper articles for two reasons: the title (epic win!) and the head shot… which actually caught me with a playful expression rather than the usual focused countenance of intense technomadic concentration that often seemed to emerge when I…

This is a dreamy moment in the arc of adventure… the romantic transition between the end of the BEHEMOTH bicycle epoch and the vision of a geeked-out micro-trimaran. by Steven K. Roberts Fulton Chain of Lakes – Adirondacks May, 1992 I think gravity had something to do with it. Pedaling up the Lake Michigan shoreline…

The photo at the top of this page shows Vint Cerf, an iconic figure in Internet history, stopping by my booth to see BEHEMOTH. It was an honor to spend a few minutes chatting with him. The photo is by Ole Jacobsen, taken at Spring Interop in Washington DC. This was my booth on the Interop Spring…

BEHEMOTH weighs about 580 pounds fully loaded and needs 105 gears and sidewheels to climb a hill. This delightful article in my old hometown newspaper came out during the peak of the BEHEMOTH epoch… I was no longer pedaling around the US, but the speaking/media tour via mothership was in full swing. The author, Ric…

My favorite part of this is the cover photo, which was done during a shoot at Icom. The article itself is reprinted from the Wall Street Journal piece about a month earlier, with an added insert about the bike tech. by Paul B. Carroll reprinted from The Wall Street Journal April 21, 1992 American Bicyclist and Motorcyclist…

by Steven K. Roberts Bikelab Notes #16 May 10, 1992 IN THIS ISSUE: Update from a Kentucky rainstorm Donahue show and other plans Antennas, PPP, SPARCbook, CDROM, and more magic “Is that Evil Knievel?”— overheard comment from a clueless passerby who, fortunately, didn’t stop to investigate further. Ah, I love it. Despite cries of anguish from…

It was bizarre to revisit Columbus, the city that inspired my long-distance travel, after over 8 years of adventure. The four years that I had spent as a homeowner in the suburb of Dublin were but a distant featureless blur in my memory… dotted by moments of love and technopassion, to be sure, but somehow…

This was a pivotal piece in the epoch of BEHEMOTH, being on the front-page of The Wall Street Journal. The pace of media coverage accelerated by an order of magnitude almost immediately, including a full hour on the Phil Donahue Show (apparently he read this article, tossed it on his producer’s desk, and said, “get this…

This was a time of nearly overwhelming publicity, with BEHEMOTH getting splashed all over mainstream media ranging from the Phil Donahue Show to the Wall Street Journal. I had a friend in Reno who arranged for a presentation at UNR, and the next day I did a photo shoot for People Magazine. It was all…

A delightful, yet whirlwind visit to the Reno campus of the University of Nevada included a talk hosted by the Computer Science Department and two newspaper stories. This one is the university paper; the other was in the Gazette-Journal on the same day. by Paul Mello Sagebrush Univ of Nevada – Reno April 17, 1992 When…

Posts by Steve

Daisy, Daisy, Give me a print-out, do – London Daily Mail on Sunday

Aquatic Fantasies

Interop Spring 1992

A Lot More than Pedal Power

A Restless Loner on a Custom Bike – American Bicyclist reprint from WSJ

Update from a Kentucky Rainstorm

BEHEMOTH Isn’t Likely to Go Extinct – Columbus Dispatch

A Restless Loner on a Custom Bike: It’s HAL on Wheels – Wall Street Journal

Mighty Bike Plays Jazz, Answers the Phone – Reno Gazette-Journal

Pedaling a Practical Dream – UNR