| Name: | Torsten Lif <torsten.lif@ibm.net> | |
| Age: | M 39 (March 1: st 1957) | |
| Mass: | almost 85 kg (185 lbs). | |
| Size: | 196 cm (6'5 1/2") | |
| Bikes: | Linear LWB USS 'bent w/ 48" frame (largest size available). Nishiki 66 cm Continental Diamond Frame touring bike ("Beat-up Trusty Tourer"). | |
| Rides: | Not a whole lot. My commute is just 4.5 km (each way) and that's not enough to even work up a sweat. And I've exhausted most of the "training rides" this side of Stockholm so I get bored with them. I save myself for the annual "escape" when I try to get away for two weeks of touring. Obviously, I need to do some training for this, but I'm getting lazier each year and -94 I went to Switzerland with only 200 km on the 'meter. | |
| Where: | Long Island, NY, USA | |
| Works: | UNIX Systems Manager. | |
| Likes: | Reading (currently mostly Terry Pratchett), "surfing the net", building a cabin on my in-laws' land on an island in the Stockholm archipelago. WHAT COMES NEXT: Home-brew front fairing and body stocking as an attempt towards better bad-weather riding (both for touring and to extend the commute season). | |
| Climbs: | not surveyed | |
| Crash: | Apart from the "normal" "falling over at a traffic light because my foot wouldn't come loose", I've got three embarrasing crashes on my list. 1: (upright) hit the rear of a (mis)parked car while trying to figure how to reset my new Avocet 50 cyclometer. Ruined the fork. 2: ('bent) rode down the ramp from a roof-top garage to see how fast I could go. Failed to negotiate the S-turn at the foot of the ramp, hit the curb, dislocated a CURBSTONE, dinged both wheels and scooped up a back pocket full of soil from the plantation I landed in. Oh, and the speedometer said my peak speed had been 61 km/h. 3: ('bent) forgot to fold the new kickstand I'd mounted by the rear wheel. And not only that, but it was the kind with a locking latch to prevent it from folding even if the bike moves. So in the first left turn I found myself suddenly splayed on the road and the kickstand bent to destruction. | |
| Beard: | not surveyed | |
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