Porsche Bike Adventure: August 2022

Saturday, August 27, 2022

BWI loop ride

Warm morning 2004 Porsche Bike X ride from my home out and around BWI airport and back. Nice ride, but a little on the warm side.

2001 Bike FS Restoration Challenge

A 2001 Porsche Bike FS sighting at the Chicago Restoration Challenge today. A friend sent this photo.

Friday, August 26, 2022

Ride and Refuel

14-mile neighborhood ride on the 1998 Porsche Bike S and stopping for a Hardee’s breakfast burrito this morning.

Tuesday, August 23, 2022

New scale Porsches

Added a Martini 917K and Shell 962 to my Porsche 1:64 scale collection last weekend.

Beautiful Bike S build

What a beautiful Bike S build! Someone listed a custom all-yellow Bike S on the German eBay website. Sure looks amazing!

Saturday, August 20, 2022

This weekend was light on professional sports car racing action. But what the weekend lacked in pro racing; it made up with historic racing. Laguna Seca again hosted the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, and I was there to see some of the best Porsche race cars from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s. The Motorsports Reunion is a great addition to Monterey car week and PCA always attends this annual August event in force with a giant tent at turn five. The tent is a great viewing location and has live streaming race coverage from around the track on a large TV. Lunch and beverages also allow Porsche racing enthusiasts to hang out there all day. My favorite part of this event is always walking the paddock and seeing all my favorite Porsche racers in their original liveries. Everything from the Rothmans 956, Coca-Cola 962, Interscope 935 K3, Gulf 917K, John Paul JLP-3, Targa Floria 908/3, Momo 935, and more. This event definitely gets me excited for Rennsport Reunion next September … which everyone was talking about on Saturday.

Werks Reunion Monterey

Favorite cars from Werks Reunion in Monterey yesterday. The 1972 (1 of 11) Porsche 916 was a unicorn sighting. The 959 was very rare too. Great show, lots of Porsches.

My Story

I am a fanatical Porsche enthusiast. I love all things Porsche. This has led me to explore the depths of the automobile brand including some of the least known items the marque is known for. My latest journey - Porsche bicycles!

When I was 13 years old, I fell in love with Porsche cars. Delivering the morning newspaper on my Schwinn ten-speed bike brought me face to bumper with a white 911T each morning and from there I was hooked.

Many years later, I have a garage full of Porsche automobiles and a plethora of Porsche paraphernalia including everything from posters, flags, hats, shirts, sunglasses, scale models, a wristwatch and much more; all of the normal stuff any average PCA member has collected.

Some of my more prized Porsche possessions are my three Porsche bicycles. Yes, three. One is a 100% original 1996 Bike S. The other is a heavily modified 1998 Bike S I use for road and mountain riding. And the latest is a touring-style 2004 Porsche Bike X that I turned into a road bike. I have ridden these three bikes over 5,000 miles in the last few years.

In 2016, I rode many training miles in preparation for a 53-mile ride in the California Sierra foothills, a 72-mile ride around Lake Tahoe and the grand finale ride of 100 miles at the Sacramento Century. The 100 mile ride I believe is a world record on a Porsche Bike S.

Then in July 2017, I completed the 2017 Death Ride with the rebuilt and ultra rare 2004 Porsche Bike X. The Death Ride is an extremely challenging 125-mile, 15,000 foot elevation gain bike ride that crosses five mountain passes in the California Alps near Lake Tahoe. I believe this was the first time a Porsche bicycle completed the Death Ride. Another record.

In the fall of 2020, I rode the 184.5-mile Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath across three days on the 1998 Bike S. My first multi-day bike riding tour. Another Porsche bike record?

And this blog shared every mile!

2016, 2017 and 2020 were great years of riding. What could possibly follow that?

In 2021, I completed my goal to ride the 360-mile Chesapeake and Ohio and Great Allegheny Passage on the 2004 Bike X. I converted the Bike X back to a hybrid bike for the six-day epic adventure. And in 2022, the Bike X also completed the 237-mile Florida Coast to Coast ride with eight other Porsche Bike riders.

More Porsche Bike adventures are coming up. And just like previous efforts, I plan to share every mile on this blog!

Porsche Bike Adventure