Touring Tuesday - Mountain Bike Murder Mystery

Ken Kifer, ready to go touring

Today is Halloween, which means it's time for scary stuff. Check out Ken Kifer's The Mountain Bike Touring Trip, where mountain bikers on an isolated trail disappear one by one. Ken was one of the first to put a lot of material about bicycle touring on the Internet. I think he started back when most people didn't know what the Internet was. His site, Ken Kifer's Bike Pages, features a lot of  how-to information on bicycle touring and articles about his many bicycle tours. On three of those trips, he traveled over 4,000 miles.

As many of you know, Ken was killed by a drunk driver in 2003. The driver had been released from jail just four hours earlier for drunk driving. He apparently went to a bar, got drunk again and hit Ken. Kifer was only 57 at the time of his death, and he no doubt had a lot more bike touring left in him. His bike pages have been preserved out on the Internet, and you can still visit them today. It's just a shame that Ken's not adding to them. On the bright side, he made good use of the time he did have on Earth.