jnw@uvacs.UUCP (11/16/83)
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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