Coast to Coast ride now CAR FREE

I am doing this ride CAR FREE!! Being assisted by internal combustion has introduced a degree of complexity that has made the grandiose plans you have seen in here not worth pursuing....

As such I am running very lean and w/o staff. You can follow me HERE!!

THX 4 all of U!!

NBG/Penny Farthing Wines T-shirt & Bay Area ride Complete

Look at this fund raiser that Penny Farthing Wines just created for us. They named a wine after our ride and even created a commemorative T-shirt we can use to drum up $ support!!]

To ORDER

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THX for this Faye. Yesterday when I rode Palo Alto to Oakland/Berkeley I had people pumping their fists and calling out in support all along the way from Fremont to Hayward to San Leandro and etc. And then if they weren't being verbal. tons of others were pointing their cameras at me. Everyone seemed excited to see me everywhere I went.

I called my dad to say goodbye as I was riding that miserable road that leads off the back of the Dumbarton Bridge and he said he had friends asking him if I was his son. He told me the Hayward Review also did a big story. When they found out I grew up there they had called me to do a quick interview but I didn't think it was going to amount to much .... Here is what they did: http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12280297

At the San Leandro BART where I met Ron Bishop's Oakland team, I felt likeI was under siege until we finally got going. Tons of people were asking if I was that guy they'd seen on TV (here in the ABC 7 story: http://is.gd/vRpK ). And then as we finished the last 14 miles, the fanfare continued but not before Ron brought me the Oakland Tribune feature. Here's the Trib http://www.insidebayarea.com/search/ci_12280297

Here now as I regroup before I take off (wait for a driver) now that the ceremonial rides are done with the Bay Area, I am all the more impressed with the SFBC. That Palo Alto Daily article (in cased U missed it http://is.gd/vcZ2 ) really jacked up a huge buzz here in the San Francisco Bay Area. Everywhere but in San Francisco itself. We couldn't get their paper to do anything and their Mayor who is supposed to be running for governor for the state was as well uninterested. So I don't know how they do it. It's kinda like they've got the popular support and a lot of the Supes (like City Councillors) are in their camp, but the biggest leader there isn't following.

I mean there was no way the man who started Traffic Calming, Berkeley Mayor, Tom Bates, was going to miss our arrival, check out this photo:

And there is no way I am going to miss the Sacto to Folsom River Ride, with or without a support vehicle!! Reno is May 14.........,

THX 4 U!!

At 2:56 PM -0700 5/5/09, Faye Saunders wrote:
In case you missed it, here is another article about your ride: http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12243871?nclick_check=1 I've even had people at work asking about your fundraising. Sure seems like it's everywhere....... Not to mention the fact that the Merc has a bunch of new pictures of you and your bike that I've never seen.

Palo Alto 2009 Send Off

Our symbolic send off that connected Palo Alto with San Francisco 35 miles away, is now on the books. Until the rubber hits the road on Wed, 5/6. we are busy trying to track down a driver to support tis ride. The vehicle we are very close to securing for this journey is a 21 foot, Chey G-30 w/a Mini Winnie Campsite brand camper shell..

Penny Farthing Wines Looking for a Driver &

This was just placed at http://forums.bicycling.com by Ron Rawlinson, the brilliant marketer for Penny Farthing Wines. And he's getting a buzz going at to help me get a driver and rock this ride

Can I get U guyz to join there and add to his fire. He's got postings in:


Love Forum
Bike Advocacy
Where to Ride
Long Distance
Fixies & Vintage

He posts under 'ronarete" . Can anyone here add to the electricity he is trying to create?


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A seemingly normal, yet maybe crazy guy named Martin Kreig is going to ride a one of a kind Pennyfarthing big wheel bike 4017 miles across the US. Along the way, he'll be visiting 25 mayors in 25 cities to promote a national bikeway. He leaves from San Francisco and enters Immigrant Pass next Monday, May 11. Please check the print -

http://is.gd/vcZ2

and ABC News story on him that ran on May 1st at

http://is.gd/vRpK

Final Training Days on the Books 4-27-09

John Dohner, who bought several of my soon ahead days on the road is a major
winner on many levels. Almost 60, he is still a respected force on the football field, he and his wife,
Kathryn, built the fabulous home in which they live and he just completed his own bike ride across America
when he dropped his boy off at Dartmouth college !

I had a full day today interacting with Mayors, their staffs, Mayors' Ride cyclists, motorhome prospects and the local newsaper with which my ride will be featured on tomorrow's front page. So as such, I don' get on the road till 6PM.

5th Annual Sacto to Folsom Am. River Ride on 5/10!

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Our 5th annual 5th Annual Sacramento to Folsom American River Ride launches from the state capitol steps at 9AM on Sunday May 10th when we then meet and exchange with four other Mayors (West Sacramento, Sacramento, Rancho Cordova and Folsom). And when it does it will send me 35 miles closer to my own destination, Boston, this year as I ride a bike that may be familiar to many of you, the Eagle HiWheel bike that Jacques Graber had once served as the caretaker for. It is in my possession now because I will be using it in an attempt to become the first person to *pedal* such a machine from the west coast to the east. And I underscore the word 'pedal' here because in 1891, the last time one of these crossed the Nation, there were no roads west of the Mississippi.





What that meant was such riders walked a lot of the time. And since it is the only HiWheel bike that can climb hills without destroying the bike or the rider, this exciting machine, will be making the first ever fully pedaled HiWheel bike journey across America. And it is this fact, along with this being the only backwards HiWheel bike in active use in all the world, that will be celebrated by the HiWheel bike community from far and wide. Come out and JOIN US  as we ride arguably the best car free bike path on the planet.



Not only will Rancho Cordova resident, Jacques Graber, be there on one of his beautiful 19th century HiWheel bikes, but Mr Bicycle Davis, Peter Wagner, will be there too on the amazing HiWheel bike he built from discarded stock. Word also has it that esteemed dentist Terry Horlick will be there on his 1880's stead as will Chrstian Wignal from San Francisco and Marty Wilson from San Diego. Greg Barron, the father of the current resurgence in popularity of the HIWheel bike may likely also be there as well. For that matter, Ed Cox, the Bike Coordinator for the city of Sacramento, has also signed on. And the bikes he and Marty will be riding were both made by Greg's company Rideable Replica Bicycles.



THX 4 all of U!!