Thursday, December 6, 2007

And I would ride 5000 miles.....................


Wow, it's almost been a month since my last post...time is flying this time of year. I have three frames in the works right now and should have something to show this weekend. In the meantime, a bit of a Live Wire Cycles milestone was reached a few weeks ago- Jeff Kerby took his Live Wire 29er past the 5,000 mile mark, in less than 6 months! That's pretty impressive for any cyclist, but consider that 95% of the miles were off road, the bike was always loaded down with some kind of cargo, and it's a single speed. He's been throwing down 300 mile weeks lately as prep for the next GDR too!
It's pretty cool to see a Live Wire bike getting thrashed on a daily basis and keep coming back for more.



ps- I shouldn't have written the post title like that, I can't get that song out of my head now....damn those geeky Australian twins. And why would anybody want to get "heavered" to?

3 comments:

Matthew Lee said...

nice pic. do you know where its from? looks like a mythical tour de france route circa 1920. i have been wondering where kerby went off to. this post came up in his google. 5K is a lot o miles. i look for him to do well this year if he races. maybe he'll tack on the extra canadian bacon? ps. i love your bender.
ML

Chauncey Matthews said...

Hi Matt,
I'll bet you saw a lot of interesting stuff when you googled Jeff!
As far as I know, Jon Billman took that pic somewhere in CO- it was the only one on hand I had to commemorate the 5,000 mile mark. Thats old news now (2/8/08)- he hit 7k last week!
-CM

Matthew Lee said...

yup! there wasn't much there on jeff kerby the teacher, but my favorite was the pranormal news bit: http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=paranormal&cdn=newsissues&tm=37&f=00&su=p284.8.150.ip_&tt=2&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.news-bulletin.com/sports/72479-07-03-07.html

i'd still like to hear that one from his mouth. jon billman doesn't much like to talk about it. the universe strikes again, i guess. i do hope jeff give it another shot.