Sunday March 9th, 10:30 AM
Seminar room: 123 (Atrium Level)
Presented by Jay Kinsinger, Sojourn Cyclery
BMX was in its infancy in 1973. My friends and I were early adopters. I traded labor at a local bike shop for parts to convert my Schwinn Stingray into a BMX bike. I was eventually employed at the shop and worked my way through high school and college as a bike mechanic. Inspired by the 1976 celebration, my kid brother and I decided to pedal the TransAmerica Bikecentennial (now American Cycling Association) Trail in 1981. I pedaled a lugged steel bike that I built from a Proteus kit. The endeavor ignited a passion for cycle-touring and frame building that continues today. In 2010, I was taken by a picture of a wooden bicycle. That inspired me to integrate another passion, woodworking, into my bike building avocation. I married these two passions and created my first wooden bicycle. My vocation is a professor of engineering at Cedarville University. Over the next few years, field testing as well as laboratory testing by my students validated the efficacity of this transition. Come and learn why wooden bikes are not only rideable art but are the gold standard for a smooth ride. Also see a wooden bike building workshop in progress.
