If you’re like me then you probably still have the scar on the soft inside of your ankle from where you once drove your foot down to extend the kickstand on your Schwinn only to miss by a hair and have it make a nice gouge down the side of your foot. Yep, that’ll scab up nicely. The Girth bike, built by Joel Wilmoth of Phoenix, Arizona solves that problem. It also solves the problem of falling over because you’re drunk or maybe just a total klutz. Whatever, Fat Bikes Rule!
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Also solves the problem of getting anywhere quickly!
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See ladies, it is about the width more than the length.
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Hoosier Daddy?
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Hey there, Mr Tuna Can!
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Fat-bottom bikes, you make the ridin’ world go ’round!
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Shouldn’t that be “Fat bottom bikes, you make the Rokon world go round”?
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Ahh, so close! How did I miss it?!
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“If you’re like me… on your Schwinn…”
I’m not like you. I had a Western Flyer Buzz Bike.
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I had a Huffy. Which, aside from the paint color and the goofy handlebar streamers looks like basically the same bike as your Western Flyer (pic is not my bike, but nearly identical). https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/e14533101a9730acdf1bb600615becd98d3e150239a4fd2143389305fc9719d4.jpg
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Handlebar streamers and the name “Marauder” are sending mixed messages.
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Ew, straight downtube on a cantilever frame. My eyes!
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I didn’t notice it until you pointed it out. Thanks for that. I’ll bet you also try to hand people cartons of spoiled milk while saying “Here – you wanna smell something gross?”
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Oh, yeah? Well at least it had a genuine Nylon Cheater Slick. So, um, so there!
Also, to be honest, they cranked out these things in several different versions and I don’t recall whether mine had a straight or curved downtube. It was, however, that same purple. With the Cheater Slick. I remember that.
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Mine was a Penney’s Swinger, in magenta (it was a beautiful color). Stolen two years later, from the bike rack at school, along with two other bikes.
The next year, while walking home from school, I found a $20 bill. That helped pay for a Penney’s Swinger 1 ($34.95), like this one:
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So, my wife and I have tickets to fly into LAX next week and have a Mustang rented to go up the PCH. Last night she says, “Did you hear about the mudslide?” Looks like we need a plan B. Any ideas?
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Drive the PCH until you get stuck behind an RV going 25 mph for 40 miles between connecting roads. Pretty much the rest of the PCH is more of the same. I find it too twisty to appreciate the scenery as a driver, so it’s best taken southbound so your passenger can get the best view.
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I have already determined not to get impatient with the RV ahead. Otherwise, I could stay home in traffic for the week
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How far north were you going? Big Sur is one of the prettiest sections of the PCH, but you can cut inland to 101 at Sab Luis Obispo and back to Monterey at Salinas to route around the closure. (And, yeah, that section of 101 is not the prettiest or most interesting, but it isn’t the worst strip of road; it just has a beauty queen one tick to the west.)
If you weren’t trying to get somewhere north, Death Valley Joshua Tree will get you some desert scenery.-
Years ago I spent a week with a buddy who lives in Silver Lakes. we would tear through the desert around the Joshua trees on his quad and dirt bike. Very cool area
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Ironic the landslide happened at Mud Creek!
It looks like the highway is closed effectively from Ragged Point to the Pfeiffer Beach part of Big Sur State Park. You can still get up to the Hearst Castle if you want, then loop around via Route 46 and Hwy 101 up to Monterey. You could then head south to Pfeiffer Beach or Bixby Bridge – I dare say it will be pretty quiet!
Google says that San Simeon to Pfeiffer is just over 3hr which is not a whole lot more than it would take you to drive along the coast (2hr?) so it is not necessarily a show-stopper.
When we were there years ago they were tunneling up closer to San Francisco to avoid landslips like this. Then there is the Sea Cliff Bridge approach that was done south of Sydney.
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that’s a good idea. That’s probably what we will do. We are taking a day anyway to go to Sequoia National, so we can just go north then.
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That’s not a fat bike. That’s a morbidly obese, about to suffer Type 2 Diabetes, bike.
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Q: How do you create the most strenuous, high-effort bicycle possible?
A: Weight, high rolling resistance, poor ergonomics.
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if some one who has these on their car was to ride this definition of rolling resistance, they might just change their mind as to choice of tire size. unless one has 1200 horse power available at the rear tires of the car. for the street? nay.
still the bike is kool
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