Steven K. Roberts

Steven K. Roberts (born September 25, 1952) is an American journalist, writer, cyclist, archivist, and explorer.

[3][4] He wrote articles in his tent and filed the pieces via pay phone submitting them to publications like Time and Newsweek.

The bike, also known as the BEHEMOTH,[5][6] had an estimated $300,000 of equipment on it, mostly donated, including satellite email retrieval, a mobile amateur radio station (callsign N4RVE), and a paging system that would page him if an urgent email arrived while he was away from the bike.

[7][8][9][10] After he was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal, media coverage accelerated and included a full one-hour appearance on The Phil Donahue Show.

[9] As of 2017, he had turned his efforts into digitizing records and was living aboard a 50-foot power boat equipped with a 3-D printer, weather station, virtual reality system, electronic piano, 10 ham radios, and more, around 50,000 pounds worth, in Friday Harbor, WA.