Every Day Adventurers

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The time has come, the walrus said, to sell that stinky thing.

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This is big mountain camping. This is the official announcement for the Tour de Plumas, june 27-30. For those of you wanting, begging… nay, pleading to know what the trip is, refer to the belowmentioned writeup of the previous trip. We are repeating the trip with some minor changes to the route and itinerary to make the whole shebang a little less grueling and a little more wahoo-esque. Basically it will be a long mountain bike trip covering a lot of elevation, with long climbs and some short sections of technically challenging stuff. We will eat may calories and see some of the untamed logging trails of the Sierra Nevada. The schedule is as follows: We will leave on the evening of thursday the 26th (five hour car ride), then ride and camp for the next three days and nights. We will ride down and return to the bay area on Monday the 30th. If a majority of those interested think that three days of riding is simply too much fun to be had at once, we may abbreviate the trip by a day. The itinerary gives each day a long climb, a neat showpiece downhill, and a pleasant camping spot. What’s expected gear wise? Food for three days, summer camping gear, four liters of water capacity, a mountainally functionable bike that can carry all that stuff reliably. We of course recommend the Xtracycle. Front shocks are nice but you can probably do without if you have to. Knobby tires will help. Our Fearless Leader will provide maps and guidance for the lost-prone. You’ll be expected to cover the cost of your food, and we may allocate responsibility for one meal between everyone, if the numbers are right. Email peter at xtracycle dot com if you’re interested in joining this ride. We’re leaving from Oakland, so if that seems doable for you, give it a think-over. We’ll provide a more detailed list of required gear and expectations of basic human decency as a group member. Yeah. I mean yeah. Really

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A powerful advert on awareness. And hilarious.

A number of Big Dummy customers have expressed concern about whether or not the Big Dummy will allow the Pea Pod to be attached. Indeed, the Pod is designed to fit the struts to the seatstays of your bike. The Big Dummy doesn’t exactly have seat stays in the same place as a regular bike. As a result, you must attach the Pea Pod to the Xtracycle V-racks. The struts on the Pea Pod are set such that you must either run them on the inside of the Xtracycle V-racks, forcing the V-racks out…or you can run them on the outside of the V-racks pushing them in. The snap deck works in the former situation, though isn’t perhaps as secure as it could be.¬† When running the struts outside, the V-rack decidedly will not fit.¬† As you will see in the photos, our 2nd Prototype TekDeck will work with the PeaPod struts running outside. But the length of the TekDeck doesn’t accommodate another passenger behind the PeaPod. *TekDecks, by the way, will be available later this year.

¬†As much as I love to talk endlessly about the virtues of working bikes in the city, my true love is the mountains. ¬†Today I’m going to show you some shots of the Tour de Plumas ride that I organized in the summer of 2006. ¬†And lest you think we’re just going to rest on our laurels of years past, we’re going to organize a similar trip to the hills this summer with whoever we can dig up. ¬†This means you. ¬†Even if you’re not in the Greater San Francisco Urban Bleed-Out, I want to invite you to organize similar trips with your friends, or regionally through the¬†Roots Radical¬†yahoo group.¬† Read the rest of this entry »