| Name: | Mark E. Stonich <mstonich@bitstream.net> | |
| Age: | M 51 (4-15-46 born on a U.S. Forestry station in Northern Minnesota.) | |
| Mass: | 185 | |
| Size: | 5'10" | |
| Bikes: | Several homebuilt LWB ASS including a tandem. A rear steered, front drive Ice Racer. Several wedgies, gathering dust, including a Campi equipped tandem (I put abt. 200 hours into the frame but haven't ridden it in 2 years), and a rod braked Raleigh DL-1 "Roadster". Current project; the "Ultimate" 8-))) commuter 'bent. | |
| Rides: | Five 12 mile round trip commutes, basic around town transportation, and 25-100 miles on the weekends. Week long tour on the tandem each year. | |
| Where: | Minneapolis, MN, USA | |
| Works: | Senior Civil Engineering Tech, heading a street design team & writing computer programs for the City of Mpls. | |
| Likes: | Hiking with Jane and the cats, movies, building or designing 'bents, wasting time on the 'net' that I should be using to build and design 'bents. MnHPVA newsletter. Favquote: #1. Two identically dressed small boys, on their way to church. The older one sagely tells his little brother "He built that from a wheelchair" #2. "The most beautifully machined debris I've ever seen" Mechanical engineer Keith Wilson describing the steering mechanism of the then new Avatar, after a test ride. | |
| Climbs: | not surveyed | |
| Crash: | I've got more scars than the assistant in an inept knife throwing act. All from motorcycles or wedgies, nothing serious on a 'bent. | |
| Beard: | not surveyed | |
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