To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?

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Q

To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?

--
Q

World's best bicycle guy. Seriously.

www.ebikesnw.com

Dahon folders are pretty popular, and you can stick two in the bottom of a
medium size hanging locker. Eric Sundin (at above link) also has a set up to
add auxiliary electric power to the bikes..not a bad idea for island exploring
around here since marinas are always at sea level, and most islands are
mountaintops. :-)

Caveat: If you never ride a bike at any other time, you are unlikely to become
an avid cyclist when you go boating.

Let me tell you a story about the spring break from hell.

My dad loaned me his Bronco and his 22' Bayliner for a week on Lake Havasu.
He also handed me his keys to the house boat he keeps slipped at Havasu
Springs. He just asked me to change the fuel filter on the Bronco, and make
sure everything had full tanks when I was done.

No big deal. I swapped the fuel filter on my second day at the lake.
Somehow I didn't get everything tightened up when I was done, and I wound up
with a fuel fire under the hood. There was a small discoloration spot on
the hood, but the real damage was underneath. Sounds like a truck story so
far huh? Trust me I'll get to the boat part soon.

There we were at Havasu Springs with no overland transportation and needing
all kinds of parts to fix the truck. New hoses, new carb gaskets, new
filter, new distributor upper and lower cap, a book on how it all went
together, and a few tools.

My choices were to walk to Parker for parts. That was about 15 or 20 miles
or take the Bayliner up lake to Lake Havasu City. In the end I wound up
doing both. Initially however I decided it made sense to take the boat up
to Lake Havasu City and then just walk the mile or so up the hill to the
parts store. (UP the hill.) Everything in Lake Havasu City is up the side
of a hill from the lake. After the foruth trip uplake and then uphill for
parts I sure wish I had a bike of any kind. Of course if I'ld had a mini
bike I probably would have ridden it down to Parker for parts in the first
place.

Hmmmmm...... and I have been looking for an excuse to buy one of those
little eight hundred dollar moped things too...


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Bob La Londe
Yuma, Az
http://yumabassman.4t.com








"Q" wrote in message
...
To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?

--
Q

On Tue, 15 Jul 2003 06:31:55 +0000, Q wrote:

To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?



OK, I'll post a Story too:

After sailing to Silva Bay in my Venture 22 ("Determination") on Saturday
(Many years ago), it was too windy on Sunday to return, so I left the boat
there, and hitched a ride with some friends in a bigger boat.

Next weekend, I had to get the boat back. After work on Fri, hopped on my
10-speed, rode about 20 miles to the ferry terminal at Horseshoe Bay.
Took the ferry to Naniamo, rode the bike 10 miles to the OTHER ferry
terminal, took the ferry to Gabriola Island. By this time it was dark. I
had a little disposable flashlight for a light, but it soon died. I ended
up cycling across Gabriola Island around midnight, by the light of the
moon.

A VERY surreal ride! I could see the road, but not the condition of it. I
would be riding along, and all of a sudden the bike would start shuddering
- rough road! (Gabriola Island isn't that populated - at midnight I was
the only vehicle on the road).

Finally got to Determination, put the bike in the cockpit and sailed home
the next day.

Since then, I've often thrown the bike on the boat for "ground
transportation" when cruising. Of course, the boat is much bigger and now
I have a mountain bike (ever tried going on a gravel/dirt road with a
10-speed?)

Not as young as I once was, though. A foldable electric scooter might be
nice...

Lloyd Sumpter
"Far Cove" Catalina 36

"Calif Bill" wrote in message
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What kind of cost for the week of the canal boat? Which areas of France
were you visiting?
Bill

We booked through a company called Le Boat - they have a web site.
Evidently they are a broker or booking agent or something, because the
company we actually got the boat from was Connoisseur. I can't tell you the
price off the top of my head - my wife served as accountant on this trip.
If you email me I'll be happy to get that info for you.

LeBoat is only one of many companies that do this stuff. You can book
passage on a full service hotel barge, or do what we did - self drive boats.
We were a party of three families and we rented two boats in the 35-40 foot
range. The boats were very well appointed. Our boat had three double
bedrooms and could sleep four more in the "living room" area. The other
boat was larger and had four double bedrooms but could sleep only 2
additional in the living room. Very nice galley, upper deck, etc.

Both Le Boat and Conniosseur gave us *excellent* service. However, we
picked this particular company and the particular boats we had based on
availability. One should really book this sort of thing a year in advance.
We booked about 7 or more months in advance and it was almost two late.
Availability was getting limited.

We spent 7 days on the Yonne River / Canal du Nivernais route. Again,
there's many, many routes in France, Ireland, England, Germany, etc. And
although this route was excellent for wine and cheese tasting, small village
and countryside touring, etc., I'm sure there are many more depending on
one's personal taste and expectations.

The boatsmanship / piloting was minimal - no wake type speeds, very little
maneuvering. Sometimes it was a little tricky getting into the narrow locks
or docking if there was a wind, but not nearly as tough as docking or
getting a boat on a trailer in a strong cross wind or current! I felt very
comfortable piloting the boat immediately even though I'd never driven a
boat this large before and had never operated an inboard/rudder type
steering system. The "aha" I had was that if you imagine you're steering
the stern and not the bow, it works much better.

The other boat in our party, the larger one, had bow thrusters which made
maneuvering even easier.

All in all it's a tremendous way to see out of the way places, do some
boating and *relax*.

If anyone has more questions, I'll be happy to answer them, but gotta go
now!

The Yonne flows to the Canal du Nivernais

"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?

--
Q

World's best bicycle guy. Seriously.

www.ebikesnw.com

Dahon folders are pretty popular, and you can stick two in the bottom of a
medium size hanging locker. Eric Sundin (at above link) also has a set up
to
add auxiliary electric power to the bikes..not a bad idea for island
exploring
around here since marinas are always at sea level, and most islands are
mountaintops. :-)

Caveat: If you never ride a bike at any other time, you are unlikely to
become
an avid cyclist when you go boating.

For those interested in such things, Friday's (7/11) Wall Street Journal did
a review of foldable bikes in the Weekend Journal section. The Dahon
Boardwalk D6, at $250, was awarded best value. Best overall was awarded to
the Swift Folder, which can be had for a mere $820.

Too fancy for my tastes. Pick up a couple of beat up fat tire bikes for $30
each at a pawn shop. Ride them around 'till they fall apart, then chuck them
and get another one.

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Keith
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"Gould 0738" wrote in message
...
To all:

Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I
wondered why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)?
How may folks here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones
for longer trips?

--
Q

World's best bicycle guy. Seriously.

www.ebikesnw.com

Dahon folders are pretty popular, and you can stick two in the bottom of
a
medium size hanging locker. Eric Sundin (at above link) also has a set
up
to
add auxiliary electric power to the bikes..not a bad idea for island
exploring
around here since marinas are always at sea level, and most islands are
mountaintops. :-)

Caveat: If you never ride a bike at any other time, you are unlikely to
become
an avid cyclist when you go boating.

For those interested in such things, Friday's (7/11) Wall Street Journal
did
a review of foldable bikes in the Weekend Journal section. The Dahon
Boardwalk D6, at $250, was awarded best value. Best overall was awarded
to
the Swift Folder, which can be had for a mere $820.

Q wrote:
To all:
Just read the WM flyer and saw bikes were on sale. At first I wondered
why they were selling bikes (no coffee yet this morning!)? How may folks
here carry a bike onboard? Just the 'mini' type or ones for longer
trips?
--
Q
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We used to travel with another family (both 30 ft. boats). We each
carried a regular size bike on board and removed the pedals while under
way to avoid scratching the varnish. The gals took their turns and the
guys theirs or the kids.
Sure made the trip to the beer store easier......
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Norm