Somehow my 5th grade teacher hinted to or alluded to Steve Roberts & winnebikeo / behemoth. It has absolutely been totally pivotal to my life. I really never had any concept of adults choosing their lives, doing interesting playful things before this, and SR totally built this image of an adulting and going forth into the world on fun and interesting terms that I had never considered.
There were so many neat technical dimensions. Chording keyboard built into the reclining bike's handlebars. Oodles of systems glued together. Solar. Many gears. Ham radio aplenty!
But the idea of having a life outsise the regular was just fantastically compelling. To bike around on your own power! To connect from afar! All of it was just wildly mind blowing to me. This has set the bar, that humanity has so rarely eclipsed since for me. Thank you winnebikeo, thank you Steve Roberts, for many decades of inspiration.
Is this the guy who added a chord keyboard to his bike handlebars to he could type while cycling?
There were so many neat technical dimensions. Chording keyboard built into the reclining bike's handlebars. Oodles of systems glued together. Solar. Many gears. Ham radio aplenty!
But the idea of having a life outsise the regular was just fantastically compelling. To bike around on your own power! To connect from afar! All of it was just wildly mind blowing to me. This has set the bar, that humanity has so rarely eclipsed since for me. Thank you winnebikeo, thank you Steve Roberts, for many decades of inspiration.
And a radio ham.