Starting Out

Thought I'd give this blog thing a try. I'm a 59-year old who's been in law enforcement since 1968, and in bicycling since the mid-70s. At present, I work in "campus" law enforcement, and do bike patrol for the department.
In addition, I'm kind of the department's "bike guy", responsible for maintenance, setup, fitting, and so forth for our fleet of 16 bicycles. Of course I have my own little fleet:




A 1981-vintage Miyata roadster (this is not a current pic, I've been refurbishing).

A home-built recumbent made up from several different bicycles, and a 1983-vintage Cilo (hehe-probably never heard of that, it's Belgian). (no pic as yet)

As you may well imagine, I'm an inveterate tinkerer and builder, and enjoy making and repairing things. I've also recently built a cigar-box guitar, for instance.


Bikes are hardly my whole life, of course, I have far more interests than I have time to adress properly. Thus, the "observant" part of my blog's title; I plan to include comments on all manner of things.