I have Jeff's approval for this open ended question that I hope will have you looking back through your camera rolls for your favorite photos. 

One of my  pastimes is to check out people's bikes - what are they carrying, where is it loaded, etc. People can be in the photo, as long as they don't block the view of the bike. Just kidding! Sort of.

 I will open with my most current touring version. In 2020, we bicycled from the Mexican border to the Canadian border, through the Rockies. 

Here are  bike photos on my profile page, spanning from 1988 to the present. My first touring bike was a 1987 Trek 520. The lugged steel frame was made in Trek's original factory in Wisconsin.

In 1998 I switched to a Speed Ross short wheelbase recumbent made by Peter Ross in Cornwall, England.

The Speed Ross frame broke during a bike tour in Canada, so I replaced it with a 2007 Bacchetta Giro 20 which is made in Florida.

In 2014 I quit camping and eliminated the rear panniers. This is the setup I have used since then.

Thanks Kelly, nice idea and Wayne.

Thanks for the chance to show off my bike, Kelly.  I know you picked out a couple pictures of it for your previous, highly-successful article but I can't remember exactly which ones they were.  This time, I picked out my own faves.

I've had many bikes in my life, but The Reckless Mr. Bing Bong is my only touring bike . . . so far.  I don't treat it particularly well, but it continues to serve me without fail.

Thanks, Kelly -- what a good idea, and what a good choice of background for you and your bike.  Majestic.

Below, a photo of my Thorn Raven-mit-Rohloff, Arkels fore and aft.  This photo is taken at a mid-morning stop in front of a maintenance depot for a rural municipality a day's ride south of Ottawa.  It's not an exceptional photo in any way, EXCEPT for the fact that I took it in early September, 2020, partway through a four-day mini-tour along the Rideau Canal south of Ottawa.  The closest I got to a tour in that COVIDian year.

My Raven is now in its eighth season -- I bought it in the spring of 2014.  It's been a wonderfully comfortable and reliable bike, and is probably capable of a lot more than I can ask of it.  I've named it "Osi" -- short for Osibisa, the name is my homage to that splendid Ghanaian band.  Their Woyaya song was anthemic during the 1980s, most of which I spent in Central/Southern Africa, and I've found its sentiments wholly appropriate for cycle-touring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I've toured on three bikes. 

First, my Cannondale T-400. Built in 1995, I think. I purchased it for $100(!) in 2006.

Second, my Wabi Lightning SE single speed. This very light bike with its single 48x16 gear (or 48x19 gear if I flip the wheel over) is obviously extremely inappropriate for touring, but I've done some light touring with it nonetheless. Because I'm dumb, I suppose.

Finally, my Salsa Fargo. My wife originally bought it for herself, but it was slightly too big for her. Even though it's a Medium size, and should be too small for me, I like the fit. I used to think the Fargos were among the ugliest bicycles ever made, but this one has grown on me.

Oh that's a fun idea Kelly! Here are two photos, the first with the non-photogenic member of the family (Me) standing with my and my wife's touring rigs ... Both Seven Expats ... Mine is on the left, a steel frame with the Granny Smith paint job which my wife REALLY wishes she had grabbed first. Her bike, built a year after mine, is a titanium frame to ease the pain of losing that sweet green color. There's also a solo pic of Margaret on her bike, simply because the camera likes her way more than me.

Our Current bikes .... don't have any digital picture of our more ancient ones. 

All pic's show the bikes 'in use' and loaded for self sustained touring, i.e fully equipped for camping. We are getting soft though and really only camp when the conditions are great, or we have to.

Our tandems ... several European trips and 1/3 of our 2015 Cross Canada trip

Our single bikes. Toute Terrain Silk Roads

One of my three bikes, this is the one I used on the last tour I was on in 2019 (until you-know-what happened in the world), along the Prague-Vienna Greenway route (this was taken in the suburbs of southeastern Prague.)

Though the bike is a few years old, most of the components have been updated within the past few years. The Arkel panniers and rack bag have been in use for about a decade now and still hold up well. Some great additions to touring comfort are the Brooks Flyer saddle and the Jones handlebars. Otherwise, the bike is a mix of XTR, LX and Deore, with Marathon Supreme tires.

In case anyone is wondering about the little wheels just above the rack... In previous tours I brought along a luggage trolley to manoeuvre the bike box on arrival and departure. Extra weight, yes, but very useful. Last year we printed out a wheel system to attach right to the bike box which is small and lightweight.

Too tough!  Maybe it would be easier if Rocky and I were like Racpat and had ridden the same wheels for the past 30 years, but we’re much flightier than that.  We have two bikes each now but still love all the dearly departed, and it’s hard to choose or play favorites.  We’ll keep it simple and just look at the most recent four generations, which takes us back to about the turn of the century.

In 2000 or 2001 we replaced our Cannondale R900 touring bikes we’d been riding for the last decade after I managed in the space of about two months to ruin both of them by driving them into the garage on the roof of our Subaru Legacy.  For months I drove the car with the trays of our Yakima roof rack bent up like bull’s horns as a sort of public self-shaming.

We replaced them with more upscale models: Rachael got a T2000, but I bought a beautiful T1000 with a metallic paint job that turned from hunter green to chocolate depending on the light.  They carried us on at least a dozen tours over the next decade, through Italy, Croatia, Austria, Switzerland, Spain, France, Japan, Scotland, Australia, and finally Greece.

In 2009, we took our first tour of Greece.  Our Cannondales flew free on the way over, but we were shocked to be charged $300 each to get them home.  Not long afterwards we retired them from overseas touring and bought our first Bike Friday New World Tourists.  We figured we’d get our money back in saved excess baggage cost in about 4 years.  We did that, and then some.  In the next 9 years we rode them on anther 15 or so tours: to the French Alps, Southern Spain and Portugal, the Pyrenees, Taiwan, Sicily, back to Greece, Corsica and Tuscany, and to many shorter excursions in America.

We finally retired the Cannondales in 2016, donating them to the Community Cycling Center.  Rachael replaced hers with a Surley Straggler that she’s still not fully at peace with, and I celebrated my 70th birthday by buying the bike I’d wanted forty years earlier but couldn’t afford at the time: a Rodriguez Adventure.  I love this bike, and if it weren’t for the hassle of flying with a larger bike I’d ride with it everywhere.  Instead, these two remain in storage in Portland while we’re out of the region, and see use on local rides and short tours. 

Finally, in 2017 we decided it was time to start over with new Bike Fridays.  Still New World Tourists, and essentially the same design but with disk brakes.  Three months later we sold our home and went vagabond, and they went along for the ride: to Greece, Albania, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, Taiwan, and still counting.  They’ll be our rides for our upcoming tour from Minneapolis to Rome.