by Steven K. Roberts to UCSD Microship Student Project Participants October 13, 1993 In 1993, I landed at UCSD as adjunct faculty for the first two years of the Microship project… and this detailed “project catalog” was written to attract students to our development team. It was structured as a projects course (ECE-190B), and I…

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I spent much of 1993 schmoozing for lab space for the Microship project while still doing media and speaking gigs about the bike, and this post to my mailing list is a perfect snapshot of that time between projects. The broader tale of that complete development decade is here. From April 1, 1993: Hello! This…

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This is a dreamy moment in the arc of adventure… the romantic transition between the end of the BEHEMOTH bicycle epoch and the vision of a geeked-out micro-trimaran. by Steven K. Roberts Fulton Chain of Lakes – Adirondacks May, 1992 I think gravity had something to do with it. Pedaling up the Lake Michigan shoreline…

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