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You can be sure that that our parents and older siblings did that too. Pedal Pushers was more about learning g the rules of the road and how to ride safely. Most of this went in one ear and out the other of one particular six year old boy though 🙄
4 years ago"My sister and I took Pedal Pushers courses and learned to ride bikes." I find this interesting because I thought kids taking courses was a recent development and that our generation all learned to ride a two-wheeler with a parent holding the saddle and running until we got too fast and they let go.
4 years agoAs a humble Chemical/Petroleum Engineer, I have to confess that I have no idea what the difference us between a Transfer bridge and an Ariel Lift bridge is. Until you posted this comment that detail of the bridge description had totally eclipsed me! I'm (slightly) intrigued to know the difference :)
One way or another, Duluth on a beautiful summer day is a cool place!
Thanks for reading along!
Very interesting. I had no idea there were any transfer bridges in North America. According to Wikipedia, there were only two, both in the USA. The other was in Chicago, built for and demolished after the 1933 World's Fair.
As a retired civil/structural engineer, I too am fascinated by cool bridges.
After I finished 9½ weeks, I started reading this on cgoab. Nice to see this morning that it's been transferred.
When I cycled the Icefields Parkway in 2018, I spent quite a while where the North Saskatchewan River disappears. I would never have noticed from a car!
Hi Mike,
I the end I just attached the bar-bag bracket to the main bars. We have a Topeka Ride-Case's that attaches our phones (use these for maps / gps) on the headset cap so we don't need the extra real-estate on the bars. Seems to work ok for the last 4 1/2 years :)
You have probably found a solution for the bar bag and Thorn accessory bar by now but on my ThornMercury with Rohloff I fitted the long(110mm) bar at the bottom of the stack on the steerer and it fits between the various cables.
Mike
What a great ride and a well written journal.
4 years agoIt took me about a month to read, three or four pages a day.
The Rohloff is a no brainer for touring and you managed with the flat bars despite some headwinds. I am a fervent flat bar convert.
Mike