Timothy Hill:  

Timothy is from Roseburg, Oregon. He is single. His schools include Lebanon Union High School. TV shows Timothy likes include That Girl, All in the Family, Bonanza. One of Timothy's favorite quotes is:"I've not yet begun to fight!". More about Timothy:"I'm still riding my bicycle whenever I can". I managed to hit (a herd) of deer several years ago going to a training ride on my bicycle - the deer I hit got up and ran off - my head hit the pavement, and my brain was injured by being bounced off the other side of my head from the impact - I was hauled down to the hospital in Roseburg and then sent to the main trauma hospital in Oregon, Portland's Legacy Emmanuel. I didn't actually regain consciousness in Portland, but did at Sacred Heart in Salem, where I went thru various therapy programs (Physical/Occupational/and Speech). After getting out of Sacred Heart I managed to re-pass my Oregon driver's license, but decided I was "too dangerous to drive" - I wouldn't remember whether or not I had just looked in a particular rear-view mirror, and ended up letti I'm once again riding my bicycle up here in Port Townsend, which REALLY isn't a very good area to ride a bicycle (rains a lot more than down around Roseburg for starters - I used to ride a lot - always on a loaded bicycle set up for touring that I made from a Raleigh International by fabricating front/rear racks and then working on eventually making some decent lights (LONG before LEDs of course - I used a small electric motor that I found in a junk shop in Portland that was the correct size, and used it thru a series of diodes from a Chevy alternator to charge a gel-cell battery from a computer back-up battery (6V, which was real common for flashlight batteries at the time), and used two "Union" headlight assemblies (from Germany, because I thought they had the best light pattern for actually riding a bicycle). Anyhow, I've now switched over to riding a much different bicycle (Cannondale with aerobars) - it has "Aerospoke" wheels on it (CFiber assemblies with sealed bearings). I basically dislike Shimano stuff - that started when Shimano opted to go to "click-shifting" (mostly). I used to run either Sun Tour or Campagnolo stuff - I liked Sun Tour because you could purchase individual cogs for their freewheels in (most) bicycle shops at the time and they were MUCH stronger than Shimano freewheels - you could also take a Sun Tour cog that was too worn and then just take apart the freewheel and put the cog back on inside out and suddenly have a brand-new surface to let the worn chain start wearing out again... I also experimented with using my Dremel (tm) to grind away parts of the teeth on SunTour stuff - that was mostly an exercise in frustration, however... Shimano in the earlier days decided to abandon bicycles in their pursuit of becoming the fishing reel manufacturer of the World - they'd purchased a machine to make balls for bearings, so were heavily invested into "loose-ball" technology. The major problem with "loose balls" is that th...Expand for more