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It was a surprise to have a story in GRIT, the rural newspaper that I remember from childhood… with ads in comics urging kids to become carriers. The photo above may have been the trigger, as it was sent out with a GEnie press release after my photo shoot there in 1987. This story came…

by Steven K. Roberts HPV News January/February, 1988 Photo above: © Thomas E. Forsyth, 1987 Is This the Ultimate Human Powered Utility Vehicle? Read about Steve Roberts and his very high-tech recumbent bicycle. His idea of daily life on a computerized two-wheel vehicle may not appeal to you, but his ideas and the pioneering work…

W4WS Beacon, the newsletter of the St. Augustine Amateur Radio Society, published a little feature about us as we were on our way down the coast… right at the end of the Winnebiko II epoch. A day or two later, we stopped in Titusville, tricked out a 35-foot school bus, and continued around the country…

This photo was taken by Janis Miglavs for the Star tabloid in 1986, and was my first appearance as a “calendar boy” during the bike epoch. (The second, a decade later, was in the 1998 calendar produced by CQ Amateur Radio magazine.) I love this photo, which I think was in an Oregon coastal town…

by Carolyn O’Quinn Community Life Writer Brunswick News December 18, 1987 What has five computers, 54 gears, 2 wheels, 136 feet of zippers, two solar panels, 108 square feet of tent space, a motion-sensitive security system, more than a million bytes of memory, a speech synthesizer, a tiny T.V. set, shortwave radio, a telephone access…

The gorgeous photo above was taken by Karen Greene during our stay on Sullivan’s Island near Charleston… another from this shoot, with Maggie in the photo, became the cover of the Feb 1988 issue of 73 Magazine, featuring an article about the ham-radio aspects of the adventure. by Barney Blakeney Charleston Post-Courier December 8, 1987 His…

Steve Roberts on Winnebiko II, drawn by Robert Dvorak

Push On was created in the early 1980s as the voice of Bicycle NSW, tracking advocacy issues in New South Wales, and in 1989 it morphed into Australian Cyclist magazine. I was delighted to find this little snippet in the issue of Dec ’87 – Jan ’88, derived from my little promotional mailer. More readable…

This was an intense moment… only 7/100 of a mile after leaving the home of our delightful hostess in Whiteville, North Carolina, an old man opened his pickup door in front of me. The resulting injury had lifelong implications, although I didn’t realize it at the time… now, over 30 years later, I am dealing…

I have fond memories of this time… visiting the interesting fellow discussed in my Technology Update story, adding more ham radio capabilities to the bike, and very much in the groove while heading down the east coast. Here is the article in the Richmond newspaper… by Symea A. Price Richmond News-Leader October 26, 1987 Steven K.…

GEnie was my network connection through the entire second epoch of the adventure, and as we made our trek across the northeast and turned south toward Florida it was exciting to visit the company facilities in Rockville, Maryland. It yielded some excellent Winnebiko II photos, the short ESPN video embedded below, and the article in…

Media – Winnebiko II

Bicycling Nomad Travels in High-Tech Style – GRIT

HPV News – Anatomy of a High-Tech Bicycle

Nomadic ham in St Augustine

Winnebiko II in Bicycling Magazine 1988 Calendar

High-tech nomad visits Brunswick, Georgia

Freewheeling Lifestyle – Charleston

Winnebiko II in Push On – NSW

Doored in Whiteville

High-tech nomad visits Richmond

Visiting GEnie in 1987 – Rockville