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About-Bicycles.com
Hi, I'm Rob and I am the
publisher of About-Bicycles.com. I love bike riding and have ridden thousands of bike miles
over the years, purchased and ridden quite a few different bikes and types of bikes and bought a lot of bike accessories, supplies and bike parts (offline and more recently online). I started the about-bicycles site, in 2003, as a resource for online bikes, online bike accessories and for a place to write about bike trails in our area.
The about-bicycles.com web site has grown quite a bit over the years and I have had help from quite a few people on the local bike trail pages and have done quite a bit of research for the best bikes and bike accessories available online.
I love to write about the
bike trails that I have found, as well as about bikes, bicycle accessories and just plain helpful
hints and/or bike stories... I rode an old 10 speed road bike (Batavus) for
over 20 years, then got my first Trek hybrid last year (a Trek 7300fx)... I liked some of the features of
the hybrid for my riding style, but have recently decided to return to a road bike once
again. I now ride a Trek 1500 (road bike).
I live in the Chicago area and have found some
great bike trails in Northern Illinois and Wisconsin. I have written quite a few detailed
descriptions of many of my rides and of the some of trails that I have found in the area.
Thanks to the aid of digital photography, I have also included numerous photos of most of
the bike trails that I have written about on this site. I hope to be adding quite a bit
more as time allows... So check back soon!
This is me on my Trek 1500 at the Old School Trail Area (just off of
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About-Bicycles.com Contributors
Although I have written most of the articles, pages
and information on this site, I have also had some help from friends and fellow cyclists. Many of the bike trail pages have been contributed to this site by:
Do You Have a
Dream?
I have had a dream for a while
now of bicycling across the US. I have talked to people who have done it and although it
sounds pretty extreme, it is still something that I would really like to do. I've
considered just doing Illinois to California and then up the coast or starting in Colorado
and just riding through the mountains to the coast then up and/or down the coast... Well,
I'm not exactly sure what is going to work out yet (it could just be a pipe dream) but I
haven't given up on the idea yet!
You can contact me via e-mail at:
About-Bicycles@homeKat.com
Or if you would like my old fashioned postal
address for contacting me, it is:
Rob Chapman
1119 Peregrine Court
Palatine, Illinois 60067
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