Torsten Lif

Home email:
torstenlif@yahoo.com

Note: Due to the current deluges of SPAMming, I've set my account up to reject mail from unknown senders UNLESS the message subject contains the word "Recumbent" (quotes not needed). I apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

Briefly about myself:

I was born in 1957, and grew up in the province of Jämtland in the north of Sweden (well, really the middle but you know how geographics go when the population is sparse and the distance to the capital is more than a couple of days' ride on horseback), moved to Stockholm to study towards the end of the 70's and remained there since, except for a brief foray to the US in 1995-1998.

I worked for the Ericsson group for almost 17 years in various capacities, most recently three years in Woodbury, on Long Island, N.Y. I left Ericsson in 1998 and I now work for the Rational Software brand of IBM Corporation as a software configuration management specialist.

In my spare time I like cycling. My bike is a Linear long-wheelbase recumbent which I've customized pretty heavily.

Over the years, I've published a few stories on the UseNet, describing rides I've made. I've collected them here, re-vamped into HTML format and with a few pictures added. I hope you'll enjoy them.

/Torsten

Index to ride stories:

Tour des Fjordes -93 A recumbent ride from Bergen (Norway) to Motala (Sweden) with Richard Freytag, Charles Clinton and Ian Feldman.

Vätternrundan -93 The world's largest cycling event with over 13000 participants riding 300 km, around lake Vättern, starting and finishing in Motala (Sweden) in one day. One year, three of them rode recumbents...

Tour de Suisse -94, a recumbent ride around southern Switzerland on the outside with Richard Freytag.

Round the Sound An excursion around the Long Island Sound via eastern Long Island and a part of Connecticut, Independence Day weekend 1996.

An upright solo ride in England 1988

An upright solo ride in Switzerland 1989

Other fun WWW pages that I think are neat:

HPV: The Human-Powered Vehicles archives
VeloNet: The Global Cycling Network
Follow this link to find out more about Terry Pratchett.
Headscape Hesitator..