Welcome to #BikeNite on Friday, September 18th.

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Our intro:

Q1a. Where are you posting from today?

and @FourT4 asks:

Q1b. Have you ever held onto a moving vehicle while cycling?

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in reply to Phil (ascentale)

Q1b: I have never held onto a moving vehicle while riding, which is weird given the other dumb stuff I’ve done.

For example, I drafted a garbage truck down a huge hill and back up the other side of the hill at like 40 mph on a Mtb.

I’ve had single road bikes into the 50 mph range a bunch of times, and I’ve kissed 65 mph on a tandem a few times.

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in reply to Phil (ascentale)

A1: a train! The Sydney-Newcastle train to be specific, three hours on a "suburban" route covering over 150km.

1b: probably, but only briefly and not a fan of the practice. But I've seen it done, most notably on a tour when several cyclists got pulls 10km or so by the "support vehicle" (a van).

I've also pushed someone using a ~2m stick for a couple of hours into a headwind. Not a fun day touring, but we made it.

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Tato položka byla upravena (včera 23:09)
in reply to Mark Connolly

@Mark Connolly @Jon Roach @Phil (ascentale) @#BikeNite Cycle Chat I saw some kids tonight with one on a bike and the other on a skateboard, and there was a rope hanging off the bike and the kid on the skateboard was holding the rope, which is kinda that.

I am also in Waterloo.

in reply to Phil (ascentale)

A1a. Chicago, where it's starting to rain as I finally get a free weekend to go out!

A1b. I have never done that (I might have banged on a few cars I wished weren't in my way now and then, but I've never hung on to one). When I was a kid we called that hookey-bobbing but I don't think I've seen anyone do it in real life, only movies

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in reply to Phil (ascentale)

#bikeNite A1
Central Illinois... no I have never held onto a moving vehicle while riding. I have leapt into a moving motor vehicle but that was the VW bus that was towing my VW beetle and didn't have the horsepwer to get up that mountain with all of us in it so we lined up on the road and leapt in the open side door.
(THe next mountain, we were *gaining* on a truck... ever so gradually... but then the muffer fell off. Bro went back and soccer kicked it and got it into the bus where it proceeded to set the newspapers we'd laid on the floor for insulation, having taken out the middle seat, on fire... but no muffler meant less resistance and ... it was 10 F outside so from then on we were warm...)
in reply to Phil (ascentale)

A1 Posting from war-torn #Portland, #Oregon, formerly one of the best bicycling cities in the U.S. (and still pretty good).

A2 Maybe? I have a vague memory of holding on to the tailgate of Grandpa's Ford but I suspect that may just be from a movie or something. It would have been on his property if it happened.

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Tato položka byla upravena (dnes 0:07)
in reply to Phil (ascentale)

A1 a: Anoka County, Minnesota, USA.

A1b: probably tried something that stupid as a kid, but I’ve written over that portion of my hard drive, so cannot say for sure. Certainly not in the past 45 years.

I did bike to the Twins game on Wednesday. We beat the Yankees in 13 innings. Extra innings meant I arrived home just as it was getting dark & rainy. 53-mile round trip. Good bike corral at Target Field!

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in reply to Phil (ascentale)

@Phil (ascentale)
A1a: My bathtub in #Czechia
A2b: I have a story here. I never actually tried when cycling, but when my #eScooter (the #kickscooter variant) died in the hottest summer day 5 kms from home, I met a guy with broken leg who was using his longboard as some kind of #bobsleigh. It worked amazingly well actually, so I jokingly asked the guy, if he has towing rope on his ride as well :D

After about two kilometers of kickscooting my dead escooter he reached me out again and he handed me his mobility aid #crutch and tried to tow me :D

We had fun times, it actually worked, but driving escooter singlehandedly is almost impossible, so we gave up soon.

Yet, the story remains :)

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