Real Couch Bike Comedy in Canada - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

11-05-2003, 10:55 AM

Jim 'Parky' Wetherell ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) , 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
([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) ,
forwarded this hysterical short story (complete with pictures) of two
guys who pedaled a 7-foot wide couch across an island in Canada.

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

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.

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).

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!

MARTIN KRIEG: "Awake Again" Author c/o BikeRoute.com
79 & 86 TransAms, nonprofit Nat. Bicycle Greenway CEO

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.

11-05-2003, 02:30 PM

"Cycle America/Nat. Bicycle Greenway" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote

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Now *that's* a recumbent!

Pete

11-05-2003, 05:32 PM

On Wed, 05 Nov 2003 23:30:19 GMT, "Pete" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

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>"Cycle America/Nat. Bicycle Greenway" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote
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>Now *that's* a recumbent!
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>Pete

It looks like something out of "The Winter of our Discount Tent"
starring Red Green.

11-05-2003, 06:52 PM

Cycle America/Nat. Bicycle Greenway wrote:

>Jim 'Parky' Wetherell ([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) , 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
>([Only registered and activated users can see links. ]) ,
>forwarded this hysterical short story (complete with pictures) of two
>guys who pedaled a 7-foot wide couch across an island in Canada.
>
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>
>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.
>
>
>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).
>
>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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>
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>MARTIN KRIEG: "Awake Again" Author c/o BikeRoute.com
>79 & 86 TransAms, nonprofit Nat. Bicycle Greenway CEO
>
>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.
>
Well Thanks to Brent Currie because that was a great ride!
Bernie