ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY and the Department of Computer Science University of Nevada present Steve Roberts and his Grand Touring Machine Thursday, April 16th, at 4 p.m., in SEM 101 Meet BEHEMOTH: Have you ever seen a $1.2 million, 105-speed recumbent bicycle with satellite data link, GPS navigation, ham radio station, cellular phone with fax…

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Bike numbered sections

This article was written by Kirk Kleinschmidt, NT0Z (long-time amateur-radio columnist and author of Stealth Amateur Radio). He met me on the road in Iowa, and wrote this decidedly atypical piece for the ARRL flagship journal… opening doors for the next two decades as I meet people on the air, mention my history, and hear: …

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I simply love this article. The author’s combination of deep technical perspective and delightfully quirky sense of humor makes an ideal combination for discussing computerized bicycles in the pages of an information-dense industry trade journal. I’ve always looked at this as one of the BEHEMOTH’s journalistic highlights. A little more context on the Grey Poupon…

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BEHEMOTH near Sun Microsystems in Mountain View

An inevitable side-effect of having the Bikelab at Sun Microsystems was my exposure to a whole new computing culture… I was a Unix and SPARC noob when I landed there, and the learning curves were steep and plentiful. This article, which also kicked off an ongoing series in SunWorld Japan, reflected some of the ways…

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by Steven K. Roberts Nomadic Research Labs IN THIS ISSUE: “I’d rather be lucky than talented. Luck doesn’t take any work.”—David Berkstresser, who never fails to come up with a quotable line in the middle of a pizza. I keep getting glimpses of it. Sometimes it appears in images elicited by the music of my…

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One of my favorite sponsors during the whole bike epoch was Hewlett-Packard… beginning with the exquisite Portable and Portable PLUS computers during the Winnebiko and Winnebiko II adventures, then continuing with calculators, high-brightness LEDs, and test equipment in later years. Corvallis was thus always one of my favorite places to visit, and not just because…

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Hewlett-Packard was one of my favorite companies through all the bicycling years, and occasionally my speaking tour schedule would permit swinging by an H-P facility for an on-site presentation to employees. These were always fun, especially in Corvallis… where the exquisite H-P Portable was created. Posters of me with this machine atop Clouds Rest in…

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I passed through the Seattle area a few times long before I ever settled in the region to prepare my nautical escape pod… this trip had me speaking at the Seattle Bicycle Expo, Microsoft, Fluke, Sharp, and Hewlett-Packard all in the same week. (Here is a roster of public appearances during those crazy years.) I…

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Because this event with BEHEMOTH generated such a flurry of media coverage, all about the same time, I am departing from our usual structure of one story per post and putting them all on right here. This is an excellent demonstration of what happens with a well-run event, and the archive opens with their wonderful…

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This was fun… after my brief pedaling adventure with the third and final version of the bike, I supported myself and began funding the upcoming Microship project with a sort of non-stop media/speaking tour. I didn’t really live anywhere in 1992 after moving out of the Bikelab at Sun, but just wandered the US in…

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