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Sparky
Joined: 08 Dec 2003
Posts: 19068
Location: PDX

12/10/12 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: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT

12/10/12 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
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Location: PDX

12/10/12 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, PA

12/10/12 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: 3377
Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT

12/10/12 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: PDX

12/10/12 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: 3234
Location: Midland, MI

12/10/12 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, PA

12/11/12 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
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Location: PDX

12/11/12 10:53 AM

His ad title thus> Ski Bike - $450

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Evan Marks
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 1652
Location: NYC

12/11/12 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: 3345
Location: NorCal

12/12/12 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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Matthew Currie
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
Posts: 800
Location: Vermont

12/12/12 9:53 PM

Don't forget http://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/sports/radical-sports/ktrack-snow-bike-kit/ if you need to get somewhere other than just down.

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Andy M-S
Joined: 11 Jan 2004
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Location: Hamden (greater New Haven) CT

12/13/12 8:23 AM


quote:
Don't forget http://www.blessthisstuff.com/stuff/sports/radical-sports/ktrack-snow-bike-kit/ if you need to get somewhere other than just down.


Like I said...Dr. Seuss. Specifically, one illustration in his Sleep Book .

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