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- From: jbothwel@brtph375.bnr.ca (James Bothwell P920)
- Subject: Re: What would you ride on a long distance trip?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.171747.15750@brtph560.bnr.ca>
- Followup-To: What would you ride on a long distance trip?
- Summary: AlCan bike?
- Keywords: distance, gravel
- Sender: news@brtph560.bnr.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: BNR Inc. RTP, NC
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:17:47 GMT
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- In article <BxvKzz.2n1@apollo.hp.com> writes:
- |> Recently I've been thinking about taking a long distance solo ride -- a rideto
- |> Alaska from my home in New Hampshire. I'd ride the Trans-Alaska Hwy through
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- |> Now that I've gotten the course layed out (;^), I'll have to get buy-in frommy
- |> spouse (no easy task), and (of course) a bike up to the task. This is where the
- I drove the AlCan in 1982 and if it has not changed you are in for about 1500
- miles of gravel. I saw two guys on touring bikes while driving the gravel.
- The bikers were NOT having a good time. I suggest a DP bike of some sort.
- The drive was fun in a cage though I was cleaning the dust out of my car for
- the next 2 years.
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- James Bothwell 22 hours of sunlight a day is the only way to
- jbothwel@bnr.ca see the summer through!!
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