im - 10/27/2005 02:11:00 PM

Minneapolis local 30/40-something hipster literati mag The Rake has as its cover story for November's issue a story about Dan Buettner, adventurer, explorer, cyclist. To give you a rough taste of what Dan is about, the story opens thusly: "Dan Buettner is best known as a writer and extreme adventurer who rode his bike around the world from east to west and from north to south through the Americas and Africa and Europe and Asia. He has crossed the roadless Sahara desert, numerous jungles, and active war zones." Here's a link to the online story, but what it doesn't show, and the reason I'm blogging this, is that the sidebar on page 43 has, among other things, his 3 favorite bikes. One of them is the Surly Cross Check, about which Mr. Buettner says, "It's really the ultimate bike for a quest because you can put knobby tires on it for rough roads or you can put slicks on and fly down the pavement." We'll take that. Thanks Dan! Thanks Rake! -----