Posts from ‘January, 2010’

Choosing to focus our efforts

By Matt Schiff
I first heard about bike49 during the summer of ‘08, sometime between the start of the Tour de France and working some hellishly hot job near the Salton Sea. From what Tommy told me, Aaron had been putting ideas to paper and enlisting Sara to make good on an old pact from the days [...]

Celebrating Firsts

by Tommy Viducich
Things Are Moving! Firsts fly by.
Now that 3/4ths of the bike49 crew are unemployed college graduates, the planning of bike49 has launched into full effect. Whoo Hooo! When we conceived this idea almost two years ago, the realities of a 14 month, 15,000 mile bicycle journey were far off. We are beginning to [...]

Until Next Time…

by sara dykman
Did we tell you we finished?
We did!
It has been two weeks since we arrived in Arcata, CA and completed the bike49 loop.  But it hasn’t felt like the end until today, with the five of us spread out across the country.  Before, when people asked us how it felt to be done I [...]

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