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View/reply online       Reply to forum at Social@ebclists.org       Reply directly to Michael W Kruger at mike.kruger@outlook.com This CraigsList listing is for my friend Mark's bike:
https://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/bik/d/rover-terratrike-i8-like-new/6356809764.html ;

It's practically new, purchased at Amlings last spring.  It comes with a story.

Since 2011, Mark had organized bike trips for fellow church members, co-workers, and his relatives. With such a diverse group, we mostly stayed on long distance trails: the Katy Trail, Root River Trail, the liniked Wisconsin trails around Elroy-Sparta, the Great Allegheny Passage, the Erie Canal, Le Petit Train du Nord. I was on all of these.

In December, 2015, Mark was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and given probably 2-3 months to live. When we did Le Petit Train du Nord the next July, Mark was getting weaker and did most of it on the back of my old Schinn Twinn tandem with his ex-Marine, ex-personal trainer son as captain.

Through all this, Mark kept a forward looking spirit, and beginning last December insisted he and I plan another bike trip.  It seemed very unlikely he would make it to July, but it's a good idea to focus forward while fighting a long illness, so we get up  the trip and adjusted it as people agreed to come, dropped out, agreed to come again, etc.  At this time, Mark had declined from 230+ pounds to about 135 and could only walk with a walker.  He'd been given hope by a UofC doctor that there was an operation that could be done if Mark got strong enough to endure a 7  hour surgery, so Mark focused on trying to gain weight and strength.