11-05-2003, 07:52 PM
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| Guest | Re: Real Couch Bike Comedy in Canada
Cycle America/Nat. Bicycle Greenway wrote:
>Jim 'Parky' Wetherell (http://inevergiveup.org) , the Parkison's
>survivor who rode from San Francisco to Santa Cruz for us last summer
>as part of our second annual National Mayors' Ride
>(http://NationalBicycleGreenway.com/E...e/schedule.php) ,
>forwarded this hysterical short story (complete with pictures) of two
>guys who pedaled a 7-foot wide couch across an island in Canada.
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> http://www.bikeforest.com/cb/cb.html
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>Not only does the thought of someone turning a couch into a pedal bike
>sound funny enough, but the madcap adventure that ensues is all too
>comical. Their encounters with rain, police, barricades and the crashes
>they had, found me laughing out loud more than a couple of times.
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>btw: Parky must have identified with them. Their "machine" weighed in
>at 95 pounds while the trike he rode last summer, tho only two and a
>half feet wide, weighed in at 70 pounds (I love a heavy bike that can
>perform well -- my Penninger trike, likes Parky's, makes me stronger
>especially when the shorter days give me less time to ride).
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>btw2: Having ridden a recumbent bike since 1983, and being accused of
>riding a couch bike for all of those two decades, I know the two guys
>above have given a new meaning to the word 'recumbent' bike!
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>MARTIN KRIEG: "Awake Again" Author c/o BikeRoute.com
>79 & 86 TransAms, nonprofit Nat. Bicycle Greenway CEO
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>Ever wanted anything so bad U were willing to die for it?
>Really die? By moving thru clinical death and reversing
>paralysis, *I saw God* when I answered that question.
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Well Thanks to Brent Currie because that was a great ride!
Bernie
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