RESTORATION of... an old bicycle... and more, is a mid-life crisis adventure. The author stays one step ahead of catastrophic mudslides (actual and metaphorical), and finds a lasting bond with his son and forebears while he searches for parts long separated from an early bicycle relic. RESTORATION is a voyage of personal discovery that begins with the saved provenance of one of the earliest changeable-gear bicycles made in America. "Family fortune lost" is the surviving remnant of oral history from a "hope to be forgotten" chapter in his grandfather's life. Sparked by the ephemera and the...