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That kid Ben who sometimes rides with us just sent me this message for any of ya'all interested. That's all.
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if you know anyone who might be interested in some illegal beach riding on the peninsula send the my way w/ in the next 22hrs, only competent riders too
the rides:
sat- ozette lake to cape alava to sand point and back to ozette lake(about 11mi- 3 boardwalk, 3.6 beach, 3 boardwalk)
sun- ozette lake to shi shi beach(past point of the arches)
camp
(mon) ride back to ozette lake
about 14 out and back. alittle more/alittle less depending ou tides
thanx
b
lantius
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:02 am
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oh man that sounds so cool. what kind of bikes are these folks taking for sand touring?
henry
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:10 am
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lantius wrote:
oh man that sounds so cool. what kind of bikes are these folks taking for sand touring?
I've been wondering about this too. Has anyone done much beach riding on pretty standard bike just with wide tires? 42mm wide enough?
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Razi
Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:17 pm
Joined: 16 Dec 2005Posts: 866Location: Seattle
Surly is awesome precisely because they made a bike that could eat the Canning Stock Route, or the Alaskan Interior, or Mojave...A friend of mine in South Africa who has an outdoor adventuring business is considering getting a bunch of Pugsleys and being the first person to offer bicycle excursions in the sand dunes of Namibia.
Pugsley is seriously badass. And those photos are seriously awesome, and that guy must have taken mad precautions to avoid becoming seriously sunburned.
Has anyone here ever gone for a spin on a Pugsley?
Has anyone here ever gone for a spin on a Pugsley?
Lee, come back from the future and tell us how awesome your Pugsley rides.
john
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:51 am
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I would strongly urge not riding in the Lake Ozette region, it is bad enough that people walk there. The Olympic peninsula is a severely damaged ecosystem and riding bikes anywhere from Quyillyute Needles to ShiShi is very irresponsible. I mean, just the mycology is irreplaceable... there are lichens on those trails that grow millimeters a year.
I mean, yesterday in our mycology group we were talking about how many lichens have been impacted in the Hoh rainforest is from hiking.
I thought we had a least a small iota of concern for the environment here... and i know Ozette is pretty over-used, but it is just about all the wild coast left in the continental 48 states, some of the only solidly protected coast in the world. Not to mention an archeological site that has been overrun by the public.
The olympic marine coast sanctuary is all we have left. I'm even careful when I walk there... riding a bike... that is not acceptable. I really hope you try to convince your friend to reconsider his actions. Bikes are industrial tools designed for industrial societies, they belong in nature about as much as an oil pipeline.
applesauche
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2007 10:59 am
Joined: 08 Oct 2006Posts: 337Location: Capitol Hill
I'm not really going to try and convinve my friend of anything. He's an educated grown-up who can make his own decisions. Maybe he'll see your plea and it will convince him. But I? I could care less either way, I don't even own a bike I could hop off a curb with.
Tandem
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:31 am
Joined: 01 Jul 2006Posts: 41
Does anyone know of a local Pugsley I could test-ride? I've been wanting one, and could use a dose of reality.. or a shot to the nuts.
the dreaded ben
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:33 am
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Tandem wrote:
Does anyone know of a local Pugsley I could test-ride? I've been wanting one, and could use a dose of reality.. or a shot to the nuts.
just hold your brakes on and put 70 lbs in your panniers and you should get the feel.
Aaron
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2007 11:37 am
Joined: 25 Jul 2005Posts: 4645
Tandem wrote:
Does anyone know of a local Pugsley I could test-ride? I've been wanting one, and could use a dose of reality.. or a shot to the nuts.
I test rode the Pugsly at Interbike at the out door demo. It is slow! But you pretty much can't feel bumps. Just kidding. Big tires are fun!
It is a pretty impractical bike for our area. Snow, Sand, etc is the idea.
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