(OT) My Bike Camping Tent

This is my Moss Solus II up at Osage Hills SP
last October, this wuz the last day of Howard Thornhill's annual 4 day Octour

I bought the tent at Bill Moss's "factory" in Camden ME in 1983 for a week trip to Nova Scotia down the SE shore from Yarmouth and kcab

One the interesting features of the tent is that the coating on the floor in on the outside

It is still is in very good shape and quite a functional and spacious two person tent all things considered; it is a near three season tent and quite stable in winds if pitched into the wind

The fly is attached and can be rolled up and tied with the side net panels exposed

Soma Smoothie ES

Origin8 compact crank and 9s bar cons

Tektro brake levers and calipers, Soma Okami saddle, sort of a Regal clone butt softer and not as comfortable

SKS fenders

Wheels = Shimano R535

Running Soma EverWear 700x26 tires

Soma Saga and LHT

June 16 on way to Hugo and start of Oklahoma FreeWheel w/ Ken Jorgensen

Self outside convenience store in Beggs, maybe 45 mi from house in Tulsa; rain has stopped; for the next two daze it wuz only hot, windy and a bit hilly (rolling)

Ken is riding his pretty well rigged LHT

RedLine CX

This is a model year 1999 or 2000 Conquest 8, basically a Sora drive train w/ 8s barcons

An understated bike if every there wuz juan!

Over past two - three years I've ridden this bike quite a bit, a bit stretched out and stiff butt a fun bike to ride

Originally w/ V brakes; now with Radius canti f and Tektro Oryx r and appropriate levers

Current rear wheel is an old Sachs New Success 130 oln and SunRace 12 - 28 fw; Conti GatorSkin 700x28

Fizik Nisene saddle

Lugged Trek 520

Lugged TrueTemper (1991 maybe)

XD300, 8s BarCon, Tektro Oryx

Wheels shown are Tiagra/P.I.N FIR 36x and Schwalbe Mara 700x32

Front rack is an Inline (SBS label) Blackburn copy; Zefal rear

Fenders to come..........

Raleigh 531

My first race bike(!), maybe built up in 1983 or 84, used to tri quite competently and race modestly on this old "nail"; actually raced against young Master L. Armstrong kcab in 1987 and 1988 when his mom brought him up from Austin for the HillCrest Hospital sponsored (I think) Tulsa Triathlon

He won OA both years, I won my age group in 1988


Originally (Mid Nite Blue) set up with all Sun Tour Superbe, now sports a Color Factory paint job and Kinesis Al fork w/ Sante RD/FD/SL and old 600EX cranks


Mavic RD 500 hubs and Sun ME14A, 28x f and 32x r, Pasela TG 700x28

I still ride it some

Soma Saga (2)

Got the DT TK 7.1 et PW wheels on it; DT 14g DB, Tanaka stainless fenders, now has a SKF bottom bracket

Soma Express 700x35 tires are really fat, measure 36mm+ across the section on rim; Pasela TG 700x35 on CR 18s only measure 31mm ish

Maybe 500 mi on it and like it!

Saddle is now a WBT Laser V which I will probably leave on it (Am Classic sp)