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Skriven 2008-01-29 18:32:38 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB GEARHART
Ärende: Re: Bicycles
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Howdy Bobfer!
-> 
->  ->  I have always preferred X-Country, but when I step into my old 
wooden
->  ->  asnes skis, smear a little Jackrabbit Johnson wax on the and hit the
->  ->  trails the kids on their plastic whizers go flying by the old man.
->  ->  The old man can't find the tracks now that everyone is a racer and
->  ->  running, no place for kick and glide anymore.  :)
->  -> 
->  HN> I like cross country fine...but loved downhill a whole lot...learned
-> 
->  I like X-Country because I have a lot of flat country to cross.
->  It gets me in the woods silently, deer and other critters aren't
->  scared off the way they are when someone sitting on a motor comes
->  roaring through.  Great for photography, you can slide in, sit in a
->  clump of brush for a few minutes and everything goes back to natural.
-> 
Oh there's lots of appeal to crosscountry skiing, and I like it fine.
One of my nicknames when I was a downhiller was "air bear"..
because I spent as much time in the air as on the snow. I loved
the turns, the speed, and the freedom..cross country has a lot
going for it...but downhill it ain't (grin)

->  HN> in the Alps when I lived in France..kept it up when we came here.
->  HN> Had a chance to buy a condo (before it was built) in Whistler BC
->  HN> when NO one knew it was there...passed on it (darn it) and 
->  HN> regretted it many times over. They knocked the condo's down 
->  HN> a few years ago to put in golf course...everyone who owned 
->  HN> a unit got a ton of cash! When my ship comes in....
->  HN> you'll find ME at the airport! (grin)
-> 
->  Well I have a nice set of K2's in the basement, and a brand new never
->  skied on pair of boots.   My last outing was over in Vermont at Stow
->  where I did a little extra hard stressing on the skis jumping off a
->  high rock.  Darn boot shattered at that point.  So I skied the rest of
->  the hill on one ski dragging the other like a rudder.  Bought new boots
->  when I got home, but for some reason never went again.
-> 
K2's were originally built right here in Washingtong on Vashon
Island, about 15 miles from me. Great skis! I skied K2's with gize 
bindings, and atomic's with solomon bindings and boots. My GS 
skis were Olin's M 1V's.

->  Out your way, I skied over near Calgary to make sure the courses were
->  of Olympic quality before they had their Olympics.  But the best part
->  was Banff where I stayed. The hot pool on the side of the hill after a
->  day on the slopes was great, followed up with a few beers at the bar
->  half way back down to town, then the pizza joint at the bottom.  Whoa,
->  that was fun times.  My 24 year old son and I went there together.
->  We had the greatest of times.
-> 
Now THAT sounds like a good visit!

->  ->  I have a Mountain Bike with a large Cloud Nine seat on it.  Really
->  ->  like it.  We do a lot of off road stuff.   Great fun, good exercise
->  ->  and for bird watching or picture taking the only way to get back in
->  ->  the trails without scaring everything away..
-> 
->  HN> Explain the cloud nine seat!
-> 
->  That's the name of it.  My bike is sprung in the middle so the back
->  wheel is always in contact with the ground in rough terrain.  No
->  spinning while peddling in rutted rough areas.  That great but the seat
->  comes up and whacks you in the rear at times.  Those skinny little
->  seats they put on bikes today make the impact unpleasant.   So I bought
->  a seat larger than the ones they used to put on bikes long ago, well
->  padded and super comfortable.  Set me back almost as much as I paid for
->  the bike, but worth it.  In bike shops, it's name is "Cloud Nine."  :)
-> 
Hmmm, I'll have to look for one of those!
-> 
->  HN> BTW we can go to Arizona in the spring and Denmark in the
->  HN> summer!
-> 
->  Oh my I would love to do that Hap.  How about while we are over there,
->  we take a cruise down the Rhine through wine country on a barge with a
->  fancy chef doing the meals.
-> 
??What we need a chef for? (grin)
chat with you soon
hap 
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