Mark Ortiz on his way to completing 200,000 cycling miles on Sunday, Aug. 24. Photo by David Freeze

By David Freeze

Mark Ortiz has three cars, but he hasn’t driven any of them in three years. He did replace one of his cars with a 1966 Impala hardtop, but it already didn’t run. His other cars are a 1965 Corvair and a 1966 Chevrolet Impala station wagon, both looking like they haven’t seen action in many years. His mode of transportation is a self-built bicycle. Almost anything he needs has to fit in his panniers, the bags that mount on the rear fender of the bike.

The training wheels came off of Ortiz’s bike at age four. By the third grade, he had mastered hand signals and knew how to ride with traffic.

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