Author: Paco Marshall
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The final hours of my PBW folding bicycle, April 24, 2018
Many of you remember seeing pictures of me on the blue bicycle with small wheels. I bought this new in 2002 for about $1800.00, custom made by Peregrine Bicycle Works of Chico, California. This bicycle was fun to ride. It performed almost as well as many conventional “road” bikes; it only weighed 22 pounds;…
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Flatlanders: Lubbock, Texas; April 16-19, 2018
I have family roots in Lubbock, Texas and I went out there to explore them by bicycle. My buddy Lyman graciously agreed to accompany me. Lubbock (population 252,000) is at the center of a huge plain, hundreds of miles wide through the northern panhandle of Texas, spilling over into New Mexico I always…
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Cycling the Texas Hill Country with three old friends, April 12 – 15, 2018
As most of my readers know, I do a lot of solo bicycling trips. I have also done some with my friend Lyman. This trip would be even more more social; it would give me the chance to hang out with some of my oldest and best friends. Tom Constantine, Lyman Labry,…
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Columbia and Lexington SC, March 16-17, 2018
I had been to Columbia, the capital city of South Carolina on a couple of occasions, but I had never been all that impressed. I figured I just had not looked at it hard enough. My newlywed parents and infant older sister had lived for two years 1953-55 in Columbia, where my father had a…
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