Follow my continuing passion to explore new adventures on Porsche bicycles. I have conquered a Century ride with a Porsche mountain bike, the Death Ride on a Porsche touring bike, the 184.5-mile Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Towpath in 2020, the 370-mile combined C&O/GAP trail in 2021 and the 237-mile Florida Coast to Coast ride in 2022. And just completed the Maryland and California Coast & Coast Porsche road bike adventure!
Sunday, July 30, 2023
Out sick … bike photos!
Well, no riding for me today. I think I’ve come down with bronchitis from getting out and peddling before I was completely well. So instead, I thought I would take a couple photos of my Porsche bike collection. The guards red mountain bike is a 1998 Bike S, the blue and yellow is a 1999 Bike R and the black is the 2004 Bike X touring bike. The Bike S is medium size frame, the other two are large. I also have a large frame Bike S in my office.
Saturday, July 29, 2023
New cassette for Bike R
Bike X back to touring mode
Sunday, July 16, 2023
Matching Bike R shirt?
I’m thinking about making a custom cycling jersey to match the Bike R for upcoming ride events. Here’s a first design idea.
50 mile Porsche Bike X ride
Rode the 2004 Porsche Bike X from the house to BWI and down the B&A trail and back Saturday morning. Got a personal best on the B&A segment too.
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Bike R @ REI
New shifter installed and the Bike R is now at REI for a final tune up. I love working on bikes, but indexing gears and trueing wheels ain’t my strong skills! They are booked up and might take a week to get it back. Can’t wait to ride it!
Saturday, July 8, 2023
Back on the saddle … finally
24 miler with the 2004 Porsche Bike X this morning. Around BWI and back home. Good to be back on the saddle.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
1999 Bike R update
Porsche Bike R Coast & Coast Adventure completed
With a bit of luck, last year I was able to buy a well-used 1999 Porsche Bike R. I have wanted a Porsche road bike for sometime, but they ar...
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I took them apart, scraped out all the old gunk and rebuilt them with brand new elastomers. Took all last night and half of Saturday. Yes, ...
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Here's another blueprint-type drawing I just completed that might also make its way to a shirt design.
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I wanted to better document how to change the suspension fork elastomers on the Porsche Bike S. This blog has photos and information when I...
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During this week's concept announcement of the Mission E Cross Turismo, Porsche teased in both the new Mission E vehicle's news...
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This rough diagram shows the inner workings of the Votec GS97 bike forks used on the late 1990s Porsche Bike S and Bike FS. The elastomer po...
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I just ran across a disc brake conversion option on the Internet . Appears to be a viable option to provide better braking power to the Po...
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The Porsche Bike ST is a rare Porsche bike among rare Porsche bicycles. The Bike ST is a "touring" version of the Bike S mountain ...
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I ran across this picture of an all white Porsche Bike S on a German website. I believe all the Bike S models sold in the USA were painted G...
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Good friend Dennis Yee emailed me some photos of his near perfect 1998 Porsche Bike FS. Dennis lives way over on the other side of the count...