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May 15, 2009
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!!
Posted by mkrieg at 12:31 PM
May 07, 2009
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.
Posted by mkrieg at 11:12 AM
May 05, 2009
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..
Posted by mkrieg at 11:45 AM
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
It's quite a trip and story. His background and determination are amazing.He rounded up an RV to use from the "burning Man" folks.
However, due to the economy, he just lost his major sponsor and is working on a shoestring.
Most pressing of all is that he needs a driver and a videographer to chronicle the journey. This seems like cool Travel Channel stuff.
Can you help him? Do you know anyone that would like a BIG adventure?
Martin can be reached at Hiwheeler@gmail.com or in Palo Alto at 415-240-4712. c 415 - 606-5043
Cheers, Ron
ronrawlinson@gmail.com
Posted by mkrieg at 11:17 AM
May 02, 2009
Driver(s) Needed for Cross X Bike Ride
Driver(s) Needed for Cross X Bike Ride
Well I am excited to say that we have a vehicle, the driver I had for it had some things change and needs to get back to his destination on the East Coast sooner than he had anticipated. That said, we now need someone with an adventurous spirit who might like to see America at 50 miles a day, If that describes you, you have a good driving record and you want to help make our SF to Boston 7th annual Mayors' Ride a reality at http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009 , please reply at hiwheeler@gmail.com
THX 4 all of U!!
btw: I need someone ASAP. If U can drive for a few days starting Wed 5/6 till I locate someone who can go all the way that would be awesome. Worst case, I will need a driver by 5/11 in Folsom when I then hit the Sierras
Posted by mkrieg at 02:01 PM
May 01, 2009
ABC News Story about 7th annual Mayors' Ride

Posted by mkrieg at 11:13 AM
April 29, 2009
Red Alert: Still Need Vehicle & Driver
As per the following article that Jason Green created for us at the Palo Alto Daily News, we still do not have the most crucial component needed to making this effort an exciting success. We still lack a vehicle.


Here is the above story in an easier to read PDF format:
http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009/PANewsMain4-28-09.pdf
http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009/PANewsPgTwo4-28-09.pdf
What's more is that I just completed an interview with Kristen Sze of ABC 7 TV. It will air Friday morning. And as I demonstrated the bike for her on the Bike Blvd and as people and cars stopped and wanted to know what was going on, Kristen kept thanking me for all the excitement that was at hand. This historic bike is the most sensational machine I have ever traveled on. Yes, it turns more heads and creates more electricity than the Busycle which may or may not accompany us (see blow)..
Come on friends. I know there are many people out there who are in a position to help. If you have a vehicle no matter how big or small that you can drive for a hour a day that I can base this ride out of, please, please help me bring hope and the message of a National Bicycle Greenway to the nation at large. For that matter, if want to donate $3000 a month, I can rent a new camper and can likely more easily locate a driver. That is unless you know a cheaper way.
And if towing the Busycle has held you back, we can leave it behind. We can get it back to Boston another way. But the Eagle and I absolutely have to go. I can make it as far as Folsom on 5/10 without such support. After which I will NOTT be able to administer the Mayors' Ride unless I have a gas (bio diesel!!??) powered office......
I know many of you agree this is getting pretty ridiculous. Are we going to let something as huge and historic as http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009 fall by the way side over something that most of us take for granted? Something that normally makes trips that just add to the planet's problems - a motorhome or camper truck or van?
THX to all of you who have donated to this ride. Now we just gotta keep the cash flow coming in as supported by a car and driver!!
hiwheeler@gmail.com 415-240-4712
THX 4 all of U!!
Posted by mkrieg at 03:51 PM
April 28, 2009
Get Paid to see the US (if U have a camper or motor home)
We just recently lost the main sponsor for a bike ride across America that I have been building toward for the last 6 years. I even completed a 366 page book this winter that I was supposed to be touring it with. When business fell through the floor for the company that had committed its staff, money and other resources to our 7th annual National Mayors' Ride, a ride that I myself will be doing this year on an 1891 bike, it knocked me to my knees. And yet I refuse to give up. And that is why I am on my knees asking for your help .

As the author of "Awake Again ,all the way back from head injury", this, my third bike ride across the US will bring hope to Americans on lots of levels. If I can come back from two months in a coma, right side paralysis and clinical death to now be able to ride the only bike of its kind in active use in the entire word, then my desire to connect the coasts with a National Bicycle Greenway should be eminently doable.
So it you have a camper or motor home and want me to give you $1000 a month (which I am hoping we can raise with donations here ) for the use of your vehicle and your driving services as per this schedule: http://www.bikeroute.com/NationalMayorsRide2009 , let's make something very fun and very huge happen for the planet!!
We leave soon! The first night I will need a roof over my head is Thursday May 7 in Napa, CA
THX 4 all of U!!
415-240-4712 | hiwheeler@gmail.com
btw: You will be driving 50 miles a day, so if you have other rods in the fire that can be handled while you are on the road, this could be a great way to see America, while helping to impregnate the national consciousness with the need for better biking infrastructure and the National Bicycle Greenway !!
btw2: If U are retired and have a motor home that U cannot afford to drive, this is a great way to improve your cash flow as U might even be able to make your residence available as a vacation rental during this period of time
btw3: HERE is today's ride on the Eagle
Notes
Lots of wind when I got out and rode today. But before I did, it started to become very clear to me that it all begins next weekend. I was struck with this thinking as I spent time with Fango, Faye's dog that I have fallen in love with. While trying to snuggle with him on the lawn (he wanted to play ball), I started to miss all the sounds I take for granted now. The lawn mowers off in the distance, the planes far up in the sky, and the kids playing and people talking all took on a special quality. Along with the trains and the wind chimes, I though about how I am gonna miss this place and Faye Saunders who has been so supportive of me and this mission when a lot of the spiritual work I have done reined me in. None of this is ours to keep or hang on to. Nothing of this world of form is real. The only thing that is real is Love and our ability to awaken that in one another. It wasn't long before I wanted to spread the message of hope that my vision and my story will bring to America .... THX 4 all of U!!
1 1.57mi PO
2 2.99mi Had to climb a hill
3 3.52mi My favorite bike path secret
4 3.69mi Barron Park paved Trail
5 4.32mi Begin Gunn HS playing fields
6 4.69mi Dangerous left turn for cyclists as there is a right turn lane right there with no shoulder
7 4.74mi Enter Los Altos Bike Path
8 5.96mi Grain sweetened ice cream at W foods here
9 6.41mi Fabric Store - spend 40 mins there picking out iton letters for my packs that read bikeroute.com
10 6.64mi Enter car road
11 6.77mi Begin overpass - felt safe tho it was not a bike friendly place to be
12 7.07mi I could not believe my eyes. The giant trees that once shaded this road were all gone!! The entire left side of the road was under construction! I had not known this had occurred bcuz it is car road. From Briarwood to Ferne, however, does have a frontage road that was made pleasant by the enormous trees. But they are all gone :( Looks like they are trying to make it faster for cars ...... Ugh...
13 7.88mi The bike unfriendliness of the roads in this part of the city continued. Seems the bike planners of the day were only interested in getting kids to school and in some cases people to work. The thought that people would like to shop on a bike never seemed to have occurred to them, Certainly this was pre-bike trailer thinking but baskets have always been around. Hmmmm....I mean there is a Costco, REI, OSH and lots of other businesses out here that are veery hard to get to on a bike
14 8.22mi REI - buy 100 oz Camelbak bladder for my buttpak. Definitely gonna need it come Mormon Immigrant and Hwy 50 across Nevada (the Loneliest Hwy in America)
15 8.50mi Coscto is to my left here
16 10.33mi Drop Stuff off. Chris Llewellyn come by and ride with me to Country Sun where I bgt dinner items. On a fixed gear, he rode wheelies most of the way
End 14.05mi
Posted by mkrieg at 11:03 PM
April 27, 2009
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.
Winding down my training since I now know what I can do and so I don't burn out for next week when I leave ..
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 You've seen me head for the hills. Here is what Page Mill looks like coming back in to town......
Posted by mkrieg at 11:54 PM
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!!
Posted by mkrieg at 05:11 PM
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