Media – BEHEMOTH
High-Tech Nomad Steve Roberts – N4RVE – W5YI Report
by Fred Maia W5YI Report November 15, 1991 I first met Roberts a few years ago at the Dayton HamVention where he was selling autographed copies of his book which detailed his bicycle jaunts across the country. He had a booth right across from mine and I got a chance to periodically chat with him……
Read MoreNomadness Report in Whole Earth Review
A delicious find in a musty box of media from the Bikelab epoch, this is the Nomadics page from a late-1991 issue of Whole Earth Review. RU Sirius did a little piece about my Nomadness Report journal, and from the perspective of 30 years later as I add this to the archive, I am delighted…
Read MoreHigh-Tech-Nomade in Übermorgen by Philip Morris
This magazine focused on the future was sponsored by Philip Morris, and I vaguely recall a photo-session in Building 4 at Sun Microsystems, a few months before departure (no landing gear or other frame attachments, but the fabric RUMP packs are done). The photo was done with studio lights and a sweep, then paleo-shopped onto…
Read MoreBits, Bytes, and Bikes
This story was written two years before I landed in San Diego to begin the Microship trimaran project… teaching at UCSD. At this point, I was on the road after 3 years of BEHEMOTH development in Silicon Valley, beginning a speaking tour with a mobile lab and trying to figure out what I was going…
Read MoreDown the data road – Middlesex News
by Laura Myers, Associated Press Middlesex News September 5, 1991 Nomad Steven Roberts and his ‘Behemoth’ Mountain View, Calif. — Steven Roberts lives in ephemeral “Dataspace” when he’s on his bicycle built for too much computing power, at least for most ordinary human beings. But the high-tech nomad, who has peddled his computer-burdened Behemoth more than…
Read MoreTraveling Journalist – Sheboygan
This local newspaper article came out during a dreamy phase of my wanderings… not only was I at last on the road with BEHEMOTH after 3.5 years of development in Silicon Valley, but I was traveling with a lovely friend named Susan, barely visible in this photo… out in front of my bike. She was…
Read MoreBEHEMOTH and IHPVA events on NBC Earth Journal – video
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Filmed August 18, 1991 (aired in October) This is an unusual piece… showing BEHEMOTH actually on the road (rather than under development in Silicon Valley, later during speaking tours, or as historical context during the Microship epoch). I had just crossed Iowa and made my way to Milwaukee for the IHPVA (International Human-Powered…
Read MoreHigh-tech bike in Racine
This took place during the intense BEHEMOTH tour – just after doing RAGBRAI, and before heading up and around Lake Michigan. I was visiting at the behest of Master Appliance, sponsor of my wonderful little butane soldering irons. The visit was announced a few days earlier in the same paper. by Michael Burke photo above…
Read MoreThe BEHEMOTH – Bicycling Magazine
This was a significant article in the annals of BEHEMOTH. It came out while I was on the road in the summer of ’91, struggling to get my body back in shape while dealing with a machine that was a lot heavier than I had anticipated. The photo was taken in the Palo Alto studio…
Read MoreNomadman – Details
The photo above was taken while BEHEMOTH was under development in the Bikelab at Sun Microsystems (clues include the Zzipper fairing instead of the fiberglass one custom-molded to the console, and the lack of cable harness connectors at the four Lemo sockets on the underside). Details Magazine August, 1991 Steven Roberts was bored and unhappy,…
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