Back in the early 1980s I discovered that by riding a bicycle while playing guitar
at the same time I could have some relief from the physical and psychological torments of my existence that are caused by my neurological condition. Since then I have ridden many tens of thousands of miles doing this, the past thirty years all on the same bicycle, the past twenty years with the same guitar.
The area of Northern California where I spent the first 45 years of my life has about 300 days a year when the weather is suitable for bicycle guitaring. I moved to Oregon five years ago. There aren't as many days per year I can do this, but the town I moved to is friendlier to bicycle guitaring than any other place I have yet lived. Even when I
don't have my bicycle or guitar with me, sometimes people roll their windows down and cheer "Bicycling Guitarist!" when they see me walking down the street.
I've written hundreds of original songs doing this and started a band in the early 1990s that fell apart a few years later. I introduce myself to strangers as The Bicycling Guitarist or TBG (pronounced tee-bee-gee) for short. My sister knows I want that name to be carved on my grave marker. The Bicycle Museum of America wants my bicycle after I die and I have told my sister to see they get it. They should probably get the guitar too as part of the display, unless I have it buried or cremated with me.
For some reason, even though my songs are good and there is the novelty that they are written and performed while I ride a bicycle, not very many people know about me outside the towns where I have lived. Perhaps it is because most of my songs have never been recorded at all, and those that have were never recorded professionally or marketed or promoted in any way. I hope to be recorded soon, including more videos of me doing what I do, before my talents fade.
If anyone has their own web site I appreciate inbound links to my
official web site to increase my chances of being "discovered." My YouTube channel is BicyclingGuitarist. I tell people to search for the two words "bicycling guitarist" in any search engine to find information about me. I am hoping somebody will write a Wikipedia article, but I may not yet be well known enough to warrant this. Some of my scholarly essays and at least one of my original songs have been included in Wikipedia articles for many years now.
