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Intro to Motorized Bicycles: We are IN the Bailout Bill
Time to reintroduce the most fun hobbies I've ever come across. Folks who try a demo ride return with a smile every time. I hope to convey some of that fun in this series. I use Made in USA knowhow....
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part II- Cruiser Bikes
"LEARNING FROM MY MISTAKES"By mid-summer 2005 I'd built 7 bikes, (3 from WalMart, 2 barn bikes, 2 single speeds), before I finally found a model reliable enough to customize. So, of these 5 pictured...
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part III- Efficient Engines
No fancy formatting THIS week, we lurch forward with a Dec 2005 newspaper quote: Lowell Whitehead, owner of the 430-acre W&W Farms near Baileyton, bought three to replace his trucks when checking...
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part IV- Shop Talk
For 2 weeks running, by the Rescuing Grace of Grog (h/t), the MB diaries ashes have been spread more than 24 hours. bamabikeguy continues to regale us about his tinkerer's obsession with two-wheeled,...
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part V-Grassroots Activities
WHY?It can't be the most comfortable way to see the world, but that didn't stop Joff Summerfield from traveling 22,000-miles on a penny-farthing.The 40-year-old engineer visited 40 countries on his...
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Intro to Motorized Bikes Part VI-Travel:Cleaning Up in Ada
It's Tuesday, the recumbent is here, the engine is mounted. It's also 17 degrees, NO WAY can this weekly Intro to MB report a test ride.DETOUR AHEAD-When traveling cross country, without compass or...
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part VII- Online support
I could have simply threw you fine folks into the MB forums pool and let you swim. I avoid sending potential customers to the online forums, there is way too much information to absorb. Now that you...
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Intro to Motorized Bicycles Part VIII- Road Trip
"In a car you're always in a compartment, and because you're used to it you don't realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You're a passive observer and it is all moving...
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Bye Bye Buddy, Bye Bye Buddy
It's diversion time, you dedicated kossaps, for "animals is peeple too diaries". Obligingly picking up the tale after my first ever top comment, this is a rusty Chapter Finis to the 3 month LLAMA WARS,...
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