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From: jnw@uvacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Recumbent Computer Jockey takes long bike trip
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Date: Tue, 15-Nov-83 16:50:38 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 15 16:50:38 1983
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The following comes from my brother, Scott Wilson (of the Southern Bicycle
League and Physician Computer Monthly), for posting to the net:
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    A guy named Steve Roberts, apparently a writer with some
    sort of electronic journalism connections is riding an AVATAR around the
    periphery of this great country of ours. Twelve thousand mile trip. He's
    in D.C. as I write (I know because I left him EMAIL on CompuServe). He's
    traveling with a TRS Model 100 and downloads articles to CIS or to his
    "home" computer, an S-100 bus monster of some description.  His CIS
    address, for any [net] people interested, is 70007,362.  He's now
    headed down the east coast, although his itinerary is loose and subject
    to change.
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I saw an article on this guy in the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Attached to his bike is 12V car battery with solar panel recharger, powering
his TRS100, a myriad of lights, a CB radio, an soon a HAM radio.
I think his recumbent is a homebrew, not an AVATAR as stated above. It
has a tandem crank set with the front pedals in the normal position for a
recumbent bike and the rear crankset in the rear triangle (like a normal
diamond frame bike).  This seems like a pretty slick method of getting
around the long chainline problem usually found in recumbent designs.

				joe wilson
				Univ. of Virginia
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