Giant Awesome bicycle

another germ-bike, an 18-speed "mountain bike".  It's small but pretty peppy for buzzing around the campus streets and challenging cars!  Rounds out my fleet of nine bikes: 2 in FL and 7 in WI. Gotta take it up the big hill and measure it's spin capabilities.

Giant Option bicycle

a germ-bike.  The Option Giant is a very comfortable bike to ride but I do not think it is very macho, either on the hills or on the straightaways.  Need to take it on the Sparta hill course and measure it.

Fuji S-12-S Ten speed bike

a germ-bike.  rolled this one out to test-drive it up the big hill a few times and see what it can do.

Schwinn World 10-speed bike

A yet another germ bike.  lol.  10-speeds, rotten tires.  Took it to Speed's and had them put on 27X1 1/4 Kenda K35's at 90 PSI and new tubes 700X35/40 SV 27 X 1 3/8  Cost = 47.90 including labor.  Need to take it on the big hill and see what it can do.

LRER bicycle (Ben Linzmeier's)

Ben Linzmeier rode his bike down here to Sparta from the Twin Cities (3 day ride), camping along the way.  I initially thought it was a 12-speed, because I didn't see his climbing gear, but it is and 18-speed.  I rode it on my 10-mile course just to test it out.  Seat was high, so I was really extended, but it is a nice cruiser.  It climbed the big hill in 234 reps, not as low-strung as my Univega, but it was quite do-able.  So it compares to other bikes that I have measured on the hill as follows:
     Univega                                                         275 reps
     Ben Linzmeier's LRER                                 234 reps
     Raleigh 410                                                   168 reps

Raleigh 410 bicycle

This another germ bike.  It's a nice cruiser and I had new tires and tubes put on it last year.  12-speed with six on the wheel and two on the crank.  The spin gear feels nice and fast on level ground, but I can tell you that it doesn't climb as easily as the Activa.  That's OK because it really cruises nicely.  Seat is comfy too by comparison. 

Noleen Zed Sport ATS-26 mountain bike

Bought from Josie for $100. 

Activa Trail Univega

This is a great bike.  I think it sold for around $365 new and this one is a rummage sale model and mine is green.  I love it.  Kept on the farm in Sparta.  21 speeds.  It is my go-to bike for doing the hills.  In lowest spin-gear it takes 275 4-stroke cycles to climb the big hill over in Cole's Valley.  It is a good work out but this bike can climb it. 

Diamondback Outlook

Diamondback Outlook, 21-speed bike.  Avg list price $249 and I got this one, in like-new shape at a garage sale in Mt. Dora for 40-bucks.  Guy kept it in really great shape.  SRAM MKX-200-70 grip shift derailer.  26 X 1.95 tires.  This one feels like the center of gravity is a little lower and you don't feel so unstable cornering at speed.  I bought this in winter of 2011-12 and probably put 100 miles on it, mostly on my ten mile fitness course, but a tire went flat and I fooled around with it and never did get the tube patched properly.  I was riding the other bike and left this one to be put back in action when I come down to Florida again.

Giant Sedona

Giant Sedona men's bike.  26 X 2.125 tires.  Considered a leisure class bike. 
18-speed Xage derailers      Xage brakes

Lists for $380 average retail.  I bought it at a garage sale in Mt. Dora, FL for $40 and he threw in spare tires and tubes.  It's in beautiful shape and the guy really took care of it.
You sit pretty high on it and it feels like your center of gravity is forward quite a bit.  Therefore if you corner at high speed, you get real unstable.  It's great for a workout ride through the city where you encounter lots of different surfaces.