Rider:
HisMajesty member offline
Ways to connect: visit my website: http://www.bikealpine.com
Location:
Steinbach, Manitoba
Club Affiliation: Mennonites In Tights
Member Since: April 2012 5 Year Distance Chart
2024 km Traveled: 0
2024 Rank: currently unranked
Lifetime Odometer: 159,827 km
History:

My first real ride (and bonk) was at age 22 from Banff to Johnson's Canyon and back. I learned the joy of climbing and descending, and the meaning of the term "suffer". So began the love affair. Now, over 140,000 km of roadway later, with much of that logged in the Alps, Vosges Mountains and Black Forest, the love for cycling remains as strong as ever. My goal: to keep cycling with my wife into old age and pass the passion on to the progeny.

My longest 1 day ride was 240 km from Chateau D'Oex CH to Kandern Germany. My hardest ride was an 80 km loop over the Belchen in the Black Forest trying to stay with a friend who was riding in the German Bundesleague. My favourite tour was from Innsbruck to Lake Garda and Lake Como with my wife.


Living on the prairies is strong motivation to travel as often as possible to any place with hills and twisties. Closest good riding to Steinbach is Otter Tail County, four hours south in Minnesota. 
Bicycles
2010 Colnago C50
Road bike
Description:  Campagnolo Super Record 11 and Mavic Cosmic SLR. My bike to take me into retirement. Ride quality and handling are excellent.

Lifetime Odometer: 11,483.8 km

2000 Eddy Merckx Titane
Road bike
Description:  Purchased in 2002 as a rental for our Cycle Tour Co. Titanium frame was welded and painted as a custom order at the factory in Belgium. Fork is Columbus MX Max steel. It had very few km. on it when I bought it. 9 speed Campagnolo Titanium Record and Mavic Ksyrium SL SSC. Merckx paintwork is easily the best I have seen; much better than any of the Italian frames I have owned. The bike has no decals. All of the art work is done with Masking and layers of paint.

Lifetime Odometer: 4,341.0 km

Ciocc San Christobal World 77
Road bike
Description:  My bike in Switzerland. 8 speed Campagnolo Record. The bike originally belonged to Maurice Johnson, fellow rider from my first club, Velocity in Edmonton, and holder of the one hour record in New Zealand in the 1920's. Maurice was chosen to go to the Olympics but WWII intervened.

Lifetime Odometer: 0.0 km

2010 KHS Flight Team
Road bike
Description:  Yvonne's bike. Dura-ace and Rolf Echelon. Bike is stiff and light and according to Yvonne, a huge improvement over her CAAD 4 in ride quality.

Lifetime Odometer: 250.0 km

2003 Kona King Kahuna
Hardtail XC Mountain bike
Description:  Sandvik Titanium hardtail

Lifetime Odometer: 3,712.0 km

Cannondale Scalpel
Hardtail XC Mountain bike
Description:  Bought used from Dale S. and then renovated. My go to bike for our washboard gravel roads and for most of my single track rides.

Lifetime Odometer: 313.0 km

Giant CFR Team
Road bike


Lifetime Odometer: 563.0 km
No planned events for 2024

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