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After a 870 mile small group ride through the Canadian Rockies on my 40 year old vintage Trek with my Radical Design trailer this summer I came to a couple realizations. I love long distance cycling touring I love camping I can survive some pretty demanding physical challenges The trailer is...

After a 500 mile, week long trip across Iowa last summer I really loved my butterfly or trekking handlebars. The many hand positions afforded by these bars were great and I found them very comfortable. But now that I'm back to mainly city riding I felt the slightly inside and back position...

On my bucket list since retiring has been revisiting the Registers Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa experience which is celebrating its 44th year. Over 7 days, in excess of 10,000 handlebar hedonists make their way through small town Iowa on all sorts of bikes. It's been 33 years since I...

I've been asking politely and many places will say yes to allowing an non intrusive indoor parking for my ST2. The folks at the Pour Taproom in Santa Cruz get my business from now on! And not just for their great beer selection and unique self serve model.

FrankenStromer I'm preparing to do the week long 450 mile ride across Iowa, RAGBRAI, this July on my ST2 . Obviously power management will be a major focus but I've also been concerned about riding comfort. I think I have one end of the equation worked out with my BodyFloat and a Terry saddle...

I was out for a quick 10 mile sprint today and cruising along at 23-25 mph when from across the road, going the opposite direction came the infamous "cheater" shout. The guy looked like he spent as much on his cloths as I did on my Stromer. Caught me off guard and at the passing speeds I didn't...