When I got home that night, I started thinking how fun it would be to take his chair controller idea one step farther and have my bicycle work as the controller for the F-16 game. The chair he had designed was much more fun than the standard hand held contoller. We played an F-16 fighter pilot game on a big screen monitor and it was fantastic! The graphics were so real and life-like that I had butterflies in my stomach for hours after we finished. These were all connected to the computer in place of the standard, hand held joy stick that the game came with. He was also an inventor, and had built a custom chair with pedals by your feet and switches on the arm rests. I hadn't played video games since Pac-Man and Pong, and kind of thought it was a silly thing for two grown men to do, but took him up on his offer and was amazed at how fun it was. A tinkerer at heart, I started making modifications to the bike stand and my TV.Īt about this time, a friend of mine invited me over to his house to play video games on his PC computer. I peddaled my bike on this rear wheel trainer stand in front of the TV for hours, and, althought I was getting the fitness results I wanted, it was mind numbingly boring. The only way to stay fit was to work out in the house, so I hung a pull-up bar in the garage and bought a bolt on rear wheel stand that let me convert my bike into a stationary indoor exercise cycle. That all changed when Shelby was born and my already too tight schedule got even tighter. I have always been a bit of a fitness fanatic, and prior to becoming a parent, I had enjoyed the luxury of being able to take an hour out of each day to run or hit the gym. The whole thing started in 1997 with the birth of my daughter, Shelby. If everybody gets 15 minutes of fame in life, mine was the GAMEbike project and the media attention it gathered in 2000.
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