Media – Winnebiko II
High-tech nomad – Santa Rosa Press-Democrat
High-tech nomad writes while he cycles By Joann Garlington, Staff WriterPress-Democrat January 27, 1987 Ohio freelance writer Steve Roberts likes to write his magazine articles and books while on the road, the pavement whizzing only inches below his typing fingers. While his feet push the pedals of the 8-foot-long recumbent computerized bicycle, his hands control the…
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Couple Riding High-Tech Bikes Across Country
By Dave Harlander Independent Coast Observer Coast Visitors January 23, 1987 Steven Roberts happily makes a living simultaneously punching keys on a word processor and pedaling his custom-built 8-foot bicycle. Self-proclaimed “high-tech nomads,” Roberts and his friend Maggie Victor, riding a similar bike, pedaled down the coast last week on their way from Seattle. After…
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Computing Across America on GEnie
It’s hard for young network denizens to understand how it was back in the Olden Days, before the Internet. We had to choose an online information service, based on its culture and resources, and accept the fact that the boundaries between it and the others were at least as significant as those of the geographic…
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High-tech nomads – Humboldt State Lumberjack
This was a memorable visit during our trek down the coast… the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University. As visible users of solar panels, powering computers and communication tools, we fit right in; the campus paper did this story about our adventure. We had paused for about 3 weeks to spend time…
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Super Bike Has All the Options – Star
This is one of my rare appearances in the tabloids. At least they didn’t take the story into the normal domain of such rags; it’s generally pretty accurate except for the assertion that I built a computer at the age of 13. I love the photo, though… that was taken during the Winnebiko II adventure…
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Computerized Cycle in Kinetic Sculpture Country
We fell in love with Humboldt County… not just with the place itself, but with the delightfully brilliant artists and kinetic sculpture racers who became our circle of friends. We landed there enroute south, bearing contact info from interesting people we had met at Expo 86 in Vancouver, and left reluctantly nearly 2 months later.…
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Free-wheelers write all along the road – Bandon, OR
I remember this phase of the journey well. We had taken too long to leave the temporary lab on Bainbridge Island near Seattle, and suddenly found ourselves hurrying south before winter. In heavy rain, we slogged south into Oregon, then had a very difficult 2-day ride over the Coast Range from Eugene. But then it…
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High-Tech Biker Riding to Write – Oregon
A glimpse from our trek down the Oregon Coast… by Dan McCue The World Coos Bay, Oregon November 13, 1986 While some people can’t walk and chew gum at the same time, a self-described high-tech nomad has found a way to simultaneously ride a bike and write a book. Steven K. Roberts, author and adventurer,…
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Have bicycle, will publish – Corvallis Gazette-Times
Story by Steve Jones Photos by Bob Lynn Corvallis Gazette-Times November 4, 1986 Steve Roberts is a high-tech nomad. After a profitable but frustrating foray into electrical engineering, Roberts discovered he was working harder and harder and enjoying it less and less. Determined not to let the business run him, Roberts quit and started a…
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High-tech Nomad in Portland – 1986
enroute down the coast on the Winnebiko II… by Fran Jones Portland Oregonian November 1, 1986 LAKE OSWEGO — A self-described “high-tech nomad” and free-lance writer, Steven K. Roberts says he takes 10,000 mile bicycle trips around the United States because “it is fun.” He is on his second such odyssey and on Wednesday stopped in…
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