Fellow Cyclists

Bill in Camp

Bill Kenyon, from Estero, Florida and Lewes, Deleware and is 68.  He has biked the Southern Tier and now the Northern Tier.  He doesn't bike regularly but is one of the "dogs" and a very strong biker.   He is tall and has big feet.  He bikes in tennis shoes without clips.  He and Dean like to rise at the crack of dawn (5:30) and they get on the road by 6:30.  They like to go hard from camp to camp and only stop to eat.  They are the first into camp, sometimes before the RV.  Bill also loves to cook and he prepares wonderful meals for the group.  He is a great guy.

Ray Harder, from Columbia, Missouri.  He rides a Bike Friday that he never has done maintenance on it.  He believes that if it isn't broken, don't fix it!  Ray marches to his own band.  He didn't train, said he rode maybe 35 miles before the trip.  He has ridden the Southern Tier, Pacific Coast and the Santa Fe trail.  At the start of the trip, he would stop along the road to nap.  He also can sleep anywhere and sometimes he just doesn't bother putting up a tent.  He took a bad fall in sand when we were in Wisconsin and we thought for sure he had broken a hip.  He did get it checked and fortunately it wasn't broken.  The guys made him a cane and he hobbled around for a week or so and had to forgo biking for awhile.  He is now back on his bike.  One night he was sleeping under the RV and it poured down rain.  Didn't wake him but his sleeping bag got soaked.  Cost him $10 to dry it out.

Ray Relaxing