This is a work-in-progress moment with BEHEMOTH, during the Bikelab epoch at Sun Microsystems. The original Zzipper fairing is still on the console (not the custom fiberglass one), and systems were still being built. I was creating all the bike documentation with OrCAD, which I absolutely adored… I still treasure the binder with drawings at…

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This was a local event for me during the Bikelab era — I rode the bike over to Ming’s Villa restaurant in Palo Alto and gave a talk for a group of Macintosh-literate business folk. Notables of the evening included Stewart Alsop (discussing the upgrade to System 7.0) and Chris Espinoza of Apple. This took…

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One of the most visually distinctive components of the BEHEMOTH bicycle system was the BIU, or Brain Interface Unit. This was based on a Bell Tourlite helmet, and included a head-mounted display, three ultrasonic sensors for cursor control, stereo and communications headsets, boom microphone, spot and flood lights, rear-view mirror, and a fluid heat-exchanger to…

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This film, produced at the BBC by David Taylor and Famous Cycling Videos, aired sometime in early 1991… but the filming caught me in the summer of 1990, working on the bike in Soquel (near Santa Cruz) before moving over to the Bikelab in Silicon Valley. I was sharing a rental house with friends, and…

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This was filmed in Los Angeles, and aired in Australia in August 1990 (then a year later on the Discovery Channel in the US). BEHEMOTH was yet in the very early stages of construction, with lots of things uncabled or temporary… but it was a fun and rare video look at the bike in the…

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This was the magazine associated with the giant ComputerLand retail chain from 1987 until sometime in the early ’90s; issues are rare. The article itself is a quick look at the state of BEHEMOTH in mid-1990, when I was working on it in the Bikelab at Sun Microsystems. I chuckle now, over two decades later,…

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This was a variation in my usual public appearance with the bike… a Friday night program for the general public and a detailed Saturday presentation for geeks. I had been based in the Santa Cruz area for a year or so, working on BEHEMOTH in a rented house up in the hills outside Soquel, and…

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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 more staid technical media. This one did pretty well, though… other than claiming I built…

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The first year or so of the BEHEMOTH project was in Santa Cruz, and in early 1990 I had lab space at Borland International. The photo above is on that street in Scotts Valley. This is a local free publication, lively and fun, and it was nice to have the new version of the bike…

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Above: this selfie while grinding the hull of Nomadness in 2010 seems apropos during the plague of 2020. Tidal Passionby Steven K. Roberts May 1, 1990 I talk often of passion. It’s a driving theme of nomadness, of learning, of life in general — it’s the crystallization of dreams, the lust for evolution, the very antithesis…

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