![]() This technomadic story begins at a time of primitive computer and communications technologies. ![]() Steve has posted an awesome amount of details on all his creations, so you can delve as deep as you wish with any of them, but this earlier model is a lot easier for mere mortals to understand, and therefore presented here. ![]() ![]() (BEHEMOTH is now ensconced in the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.) It’s the simplest of his bikes, and the easiest to understand, especially compared to his 1989–91 BEHEMOTH (Big Electronic Human-Energized Machine - Only Too Heavy), a 580-pound, 105-speed monster, costing some $1.2 million(!), a 3-year project supported by Sun Microsystems and about 140 other corporate sponsors. Here we’re covering his first recumbent bike, the Winnebiko, built in the ’80s. The text is pulled directly from those pages for easier reading and searchability. The pages shown below have different page numbers this was the proof PDF and I don’t want to damage my copy of this beautiful book to scan it. ![]() The book is a treasure, filled with marvelous machines and interesting people you can order it here. Rolling Homes is Lloyd Kahn’s latest volume, published in August 2022, and I am delighted that it includes four pages about the computerized recumbent bicycle on which I traveled 17,000 miles back in the 1980s. Shelter Publications has been producing dreamy wish books of tiny homes and efficient nomadic tools since 1973, and if you have ever fantasized about taking off in a home on wheels, you almost certainly know his work. ![]()
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