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Member's Touring Background
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Name Dan McAfee
Location Boston, MA, USA
Personal Website None
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion None
Tour Task Currently maintaining this website.
Previous Tour(s)
1) Early '70s - from Montreal to Vancouver with one other rider. A train was taken from Thunder Bay to Calgary, so actual bike milagewas about 1270
2) Fall 2005 - from St. Petersburg, Florida to Biloxi, Mississippi, 770 miles solo
3) Spring 2006: Eugene to Coquille, OR, 130 miles solo; 100 mile round trip, Coquille to/from Port Orford, OR
4) Summer 2007 - Boston to Boston, MA: central MA, east VT, west and central NH, east MA; about 400 miles solo
Current Tour
 
Longest Tour
Montreal to Vancouver
Lifetime Distance 2670 miles (touring)
Current Bike

Specialized Sequoia (see photo) - not one flat tire during a 770 mi FL to MS tour, and no mechanical problems other than the need for a new seat!

Updated 7/14/2008
Username MSN NicknameLearningDan
 
Name Craig Roshaven
Location Fort Worth, Texas
Personal Website http://webpages.charter.net/croshaven
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion I plan to start in Deadhorse and continue with the group until early August.
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s) Only one in last 20 years: 12/26/05 - 12/31/05. Three of us did a self-supported tour from Dallas, Texas to Queen Wilhemina state park in Arkansas. 300 miles, 20,000+feet in climbing.
Current Tour
Longest Tour
Lifetime Distance 5,000 miles on the bike in 2005, 3,000 in 2004.
Current Bike My touring bike is a custom Surly Long Haul Trucker. My other bike is a Rivendell Romulus.
Updated 1/21/2006
Username MSN Nicknamecroshaven
 
Name Craig Rutter
Location Portland, OR
Personal Website
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion all or nothing
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s)
solo tour from Reno, NV to Telluride, CO Fall of 2004
 
Current Tour
Longest Tour
Lifetime Distance 15,000 ?
Current Bike
Vanilla Cyclocross/Touring rig.
www.vanillabicycles.com
Updated 1/16/2006
Username MSN NicknameSatPMDrinkinMan_
 
Name Ray King
Location Prince George B.C.
Personal Website none
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion hope to do some if knee that has to be operated on this week is ok. Got rid of my brace Mar.10th so starting to work the stationary bike and hope to do a porton of tour with you all.
Tour Task cooking, helping where ever I can
Previous Tour(s)
Across Canada in 1999, supported tour 8000 klm. 64 days.
Alaska to Prince George with Ian's group.
Prince George to Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon a couple of times loaded.
Lots of miles over the years. Life long comuter to work, now semi retired.
Current Tour
Was hopeing to cycle in Europe With Big D and Helena from Alaska tour again a lot depends on the knee.Would like to do something this year.
Longest Tour
Across Canada
Lifetime Distance not sure but lots
Current Bike
Trek- 520
Updated 3/12/2006
Username MSN Nicknamekingpg6
 
Name Jack Kessler
Location San Francisco Bay Area
Personal Website
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion that's what I am here to find out
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s) Alaska Highway end to end. SF Bay Area to Victoria BC. west coast of New Zealand South Island end to end. San Francisco Bay Area to Boise, Idaho. Temuco, Chile to Ushaia, Argentina. Haul Road - Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska. Santa Fe to Wyoming. all over northern & central California. all solo.
Current Tour
Longest Tour Alaska Highway
Lifetime Distance don't know
Current Bike early '80's Trek tourer with lugged steel frame
Updated 1/20/2006
Username MSN Nicknamejackkessler
 
Name Dieter Krank
Location Planegg, Conty of Munich, Germany
Personal Website sorry, none
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion Cal-Baja-Mexico center or coastal route to Guatemala
Tour Task in 2005 'Pedalling with Grizzlies' I used to be the R&R Tech, bicycle Care, may do thze same action on the part of the Pan Am tour and all whats neccessary to make the tour an success
Previous Tour(s)
 
* 2003, Danube river tour, with Danube's tributaries in Southern Germany, rivers Lech (rom. Lecia, Via Claudia Augista), river Isar (celtic: Isare, The Wild One), and the big river Inn (En in Switzerland, rom. Eanes, from its source at the Maloja Pass in Switzerland to its confluence with Danube in Passau (rom. Pasavium)
* 2004, North Sea bike tour, Section German coast, 
* Camino de Stantiago, Camino Frances, Northern Spain
* 2005, Pedalling with Grizllies, the Alaska -Vancouver (BC,
Current Tour
* 2006 plan for riding Lisbon to Istanbul, postponed to April -Juli 2007,
* ??? Pan Am, part of the Cal, Baja, Central Mexico, down to Chiapas - border with Guatemala, see above, I'm NOT sure if I can do it  ???
Longest Tour
- Alaska Hwy, Fairbanks to Vancouver
Lifetime Distance 12 - 14000 km's ......and more, I begun bicycle touring 3 years ago, after I retired from my job as an Communication System Engineer
Current Bike
- Koga Miyata, Worldtraveller, Dutch product,  26"; frame size 60cm
Tubus - front - and rear rack, seat post 'SittingBull'spring loaded with shock absorber, saddle 'Brooks' leather saddle (very british!) .
components: Shimano XT, all parts from switching/break levers to hubs, crank set, gears and v-brakes, crank set 44x32x22 teeth, cassette 9-speed, 11 - 32 teeth,  tires: Continental Trave Contact, 47mm, US/Can 650C (571mm ISO), 26x1 3/4, preasure 6 bars, 80-85psi, onla 4 flats since Nov 2002.
- total distance 8500 km's with the Koga bicycle till now.
Updated 1/26/2006
Username MSN NicknameDieter_BigD
 
Name Clyde Slade
Location Cahokia Illinois USA
Personal Website None
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion Prudhoe Bay AK to Tierra Del Fuego Argentina
Tour Task None
Previous Tour(s)
Adventure Cycling routes for the  Pacific Coast, Southern Tier, Lewis & Clark, Great Rivers.
Alaskan Pipeline Valdez to Fairbanks then Prudhoe Bay back to Fairbanks.
Fairbanks Ak to Astoria Oregon. 
Current Tour
Begins March 1st ride from home (Illinois) south following the warmest route Southern Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, S. California valley North to Seattle. If the weather permits I plan to go through Death Valley and Yosemite.
Longest Tour
6,500 miles in Australia.
Lifetime Distance 50,000 +
Current Bike
Cannondale F600 Mtn bike. Burley Nomad trailer, Old man mountain Sherpa racks with cheapo Nashbar Panniers when I need them.  
Updated 4/25/2006
Username MSN NicknameClydeBR549
 
Name Gary Higgins
Location Sydney Australia
Personal Website garyhiggins45@yahoo.co.uk
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion Mexico
Tour Task Member
Previous Tour(s)
Sydney- Darwin 5800ks alone 2000
Perth-Sydney 5400ks Centenary Ride.2001
Los Angles-Key West 7500ks 2003 Adv Cycling America[mostly]
Darwin-Perth 5600ks 2004-mostly alone.
Toronto Canada -Miami Florida alone-2004 5400ks[the long way]
Current Tour
Daily   Riding
Longest Tour
Los Angles-Key West 7500ks[4500mls]
Lifetime Distance
Current Bike
Home made LWB-USS recumbent
I have had this bike for 10 years and have done all my long trips on it.
Updated 1/30/2006
Username MSN NicknameWheels451
 
Name Helena Kristensen
Location Denmark
Personal Website only email jobbe40@hotmail.com
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion donŽt know yet but somwhere south of Seattle
Tour Task Whereever I could be helpful
Previous Tour(s)
Northen Tier in 2002 with a private group 6000km,  some of Scandinavia 2003 ab1500km, Al/Vancuver last year with the other "Grizzlies"3000km
Current Tour
not much touring right now, starting up in springtime here in Scand.somewhere...it all depends
Longest Tour
6000km
Lifetime Distance no idea
Current Bike
TREK 1200 I think ,nothing fancy, If I can make it useable for this selfcontained trip IŽll take it, else I might find something better,
Updated 2/4/2006
Username MSN Nicknamenickan49
 
Name Erik Holenstein
Location Burlington Vermont
Personal Website
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion Starting in Alaska and hope to reach Argentina
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s)
Virginia to Oregon in' 99 4200 miles
Vermont in '04 200 miles
Current Tour
Longest Tour
Virginia to Oregon 4,200 miles
Lifetime Distance 20,000 maybe
Current Bike
A peugeot fixed gear. I'm working on my touring rig
Updated 2/6/2006
Username MSN NicknameE_whitey
 
Name Joy Peterson
Location Greenacres (near Spokane,WA) WA
Personal Website joysylviapeterson@hotmail.com
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion All
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s)
 
Bangor,Maine, to Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island back to Bangor.
Oregon Coast down and back
Olympia Pen. Loop,
Portion of Lewis & Clark Trail
Fort Camby over White Pass and back via the Columbia
Current Tour
Longest Tour
Lifetime Distance Between 7,000 and 9,000 miles
Current Bike
Going to pick up bike in Fairbanks
Updated 2/27/2006
Username MSN Nicknamejoypeterson
 
Name Jessie
Location San Jose, CA
Personal Website
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion everything south of fairbanks
Tour Task ?
Previous Tour(s)
i haven't done too much bike touring.  i've ridden from s.f. to l.a. twice, and then i've spent two weeks biking around northern spain and portugal, and also two weeks biking around france.  i'm a pretty hardy soul though and spent 5 and a half months walking 2000 miles from georgia to maine along the appalachian trail.  so, i'm like a camping pro at this point. ha ha....
Current Tour
the tour de force of being a teacher!
Longest Tour
guess it's have to be one of the two week ones...
Lifetime Distance i have no idea, i bike 100 miles a week right now.
Current Bike
so far i've accumulated three bikes and no cars!  i'll be riding a surly long haul trucker on the tour, and i also have a bianchi that i use for road biking, and a 1970's centurian super le mans that i ride to work everyday.  it's my beater bike.  the bike i used to ride came to a tragic end on the streets of san francisco, but i'm thinking of taking it's old name (la bestia) and giving it to my new bike the surly, or maybe i should call the surly "beast of burden".  i'm open to suggestions.
Updated 3/1/2006
Username MSN Nicknamejessieoppi
 
Name Ian Thumlert
Location Lethbridge, Alberta
Personal Website
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion San Diego to Guatemale, Chile to Ushiuia
Tour Task general coordination and communication
Previous Tour(s)
1989   2 week credit card Flastaff, AR to Moab, UT via Grand Canyon, Zion, Bryce, and Canyonlands National Parks
1991   2 week credit card Three Corners/Fourners circuit
1995   2 week credit card Portland/San Francisco circuit via Pacific coast, wine counties, and Reno , NV
1996   10 day credit card Silver Triangle,  Interior British Columbia
1997   10 day credit card Golden Triangle, Interior Britich Columbia
1998   1 week credit card Silver Triangle, Interior British Columbia
2005   6 week SAG support Pedalling with Grizzlies Tour, Fairbanks, AK to Vancouver, BC
 
numerous weekend tours in and around Southwestern Alberta and Northwestern Montana
Current Tour
 
Longest Tour
 
Lifetime Distance 20, 000 miles
Current Bike
Cannondale T2000
Burley Jett Creek recumbent
Updated 3/19/2006
Username MSN NicknameIanthumlert
 
Name Dale Morris
Location Port Charlotte, FL
Personal Website http://www.raynchk.com/weblog
2006-07 Pan-Am Tour Portion entire trip
Tour Task
Previous Tour(s) Montana: Big Hole Valley in mid 70's Northern California 2005 Florida 2006
Current Tour Florida Keys
Longest Tour Northern California, Arcata to Fort Bragg, appx 300 miles
Lifetime Distance
Current Bike DeSalvo custom frame, 26" Wheels, Mavic 717 rims 36 spoke rims, 26x1.75" Continental Travel Contact tyres (sometimes Panaracer Pasela Tourguards in 26x1.25") Shimano XT front & rear derailleur, Raceface crank, Shimano bar end shifters, Brooks B-17 saddle, Ortlieb panniers, tubus racks, sks (?) fenders, Carbon handlebars, Specialized Carbon seatpost.
Updated 3/20/2006
Username MSN NicknameRaynchk1
 
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