my Tour Easy

This bike was ordered as a frameset from Gardner Martin
at Easy Racers in Freedom, California and subsequently
assembled by me in January 1991 at my home in Sacramento.
Below are some photos, featuring the front panniers.

click on any small image to view it full-size

BJ Strass pointing out some of the features of my bike to a fellow rider at the Stockton Delta Century. The dark objects on the frame are a pair of Gates Cyclon lead-acid batteries to power the dual 10-watt quartz-halogen headlights and the 2.4-watt quartz-halogen taillight.

Me in front of my neighbour's place trying to look cool after a hot ride. The dark object around my neck is a bandanna that has wet silica gel inside it, that helps keep me cool on the bike in summer.

Here's the bike at the "pagoda" in the town of Isleton, California. The first-ever MP Aero Trunk is on the rear rack.

I don't have a lot of photos of my bike, maybe because I'm accustomed to it and it doesn't seem like much of an interesting subject any more; but I've ridden it many thousands of miles while touring, not to mention many hundreds of commutes to work, and I still enjoy it.

I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have about bicycle commuting,
touring, panniers, bike-bags, and rack-trunks in general,
or the Tour Easy in particular; write me at:

- - - e-mail obfuscation thanks to: