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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 18661
Location: PDX12/10/12 1:54 PM |
I am Speechless
And speechless for me....
<img src="http://images.craigslist.org/3Ee3La3Na5N65Mc5Jecca33f92c406e2e1746.jpg" /img>
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3344
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT12/10/12 2:47 PM |
WTF??
Actually, it looks like something a certain person named Evan
might
build...
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 18661
Location: PDX12/10/12 3:35 PM |
Can you believe the work folding was not in the ad text. Yes, craigslist ad.
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA12/10/12 5:21 PM |
Rubbermade
Many years ago Rubbermade sold a "Skibob" that was a small bicycle frame with a banana seat and skis at both ends. The front was steerable with handlebars like a bike. I had two of them for a few years when my kids were little and they were scary fast downhill.
No suspension of course but otherwise similar to the one shown.
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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3344
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT12/10/12 5:37 PM |
I've seen ski bikes before--
I think there's one in the Sparta Bicycle Museum. That one just looks a little...odd. I think it's the suspension.
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GT
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 60
Location: PDX12/10/12 5:52 PM |
Ski Bikes
Something new to try, ski bikes are allowed and available for rent at Hoodoo (Santiam Pass). I never have, but it could be fun. Of course it could also go horribly wrong...
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KerryIrons
Joined: 12 Jan 2004
Posts: 3183
Location: Midland, MI12/10/12 7:58 PM |
Ski bikes
Ski bikes are not common but they are rented at some big US ski areas. I've seen them at Steamboat and Snowbasin for sure. A half-brained idea that keeps coming back. I first saw them in the '60s IIRC.
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Dave B
Joined: 10 Jan 2004
Posts: 4511
Location: Pittsburgh, PA12/11/12 8:02 AM |
Home Made
quote:
I think there's one in the Sparta Bicycle Museum. That one just looks a little...odd. I think it's the suspension.
The pictured snow bike is obviously home built from a converted full suspension MTB. It still has the canti/V-brake bosses.
Kerry is right about seeing commercial versions in the '60's. I bought my two in the mid-70's when Rubbermade had discontinued them and was closing them out. I think I paid $25 each for mine to a friend who had taken his station wagon to Wooster, OH (Rubbermade's headquarters) and brought back a dozen or more of them.
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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 18661
Location: PDX12/11/12 10:53 AM |
His ad title thus> Ski Bike - $450
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Evan Marks
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1652
Location: NYC12/11/12 2:50 PM |
Another castoff sport
It existed among the lifties at the ski areas in Vermont, but insurance has driven it to ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmG51mDD8_I
France, naturellement!
(Standing at the bottom of a lift in the French-speaking part of Switzerland, I saw a guy come down on a ski bob, skid to a stop, jump off and yell "Le ski-bob! Le blow zhob!)
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dddd
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 3340
Location: NorCal12/12/12 5:18 PM |
LenzSport makes modern mtb ski bikes, a fact I discovered when researching the 1997 LenzSport Bouldervore F/S bike I had bought just 3 years ago.
I suspect the company's seasonal diversity has allowed them to keep their small company alive, luckily for me I can still buy their rebuild kit for the rear suspension that pivots concentric with the BB (and which allows a constant singlespeed chain tension as the suspension moves).
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