Great stuff! Many thanks, Professor Dave! Can you offer a few "best of" lists? For example, your top two or three: best tours for newbies, best tours with kids, best one-week tours, best one-month tours, best mixed-surface tours, best inn-to-inn tours, best tours for a particular season, or whatever lists strike your fancy.
Best, Dan On Apr 7, 1:36 am, Dave Craig <dcr...@prescott.edu> wrote: > It is that time of year again. Many of us have probably started > planning or dreaming about a summer tour. I'd like to offer my > commitment for the next 5 days, until midnight on Sunday, April 11th, > to address questions from anyone who is curious about loaded touring, > has questions about gear, or other topics relevant to traveling and > camping by bike. Riv related content - I tour on my RBW bikes and I > don't meet many other Riv riders on the road! > > My motivation: I'm going through a difficult time right now with an > aging and ill parent and I'm seeing my own opportunity for a summer > tour slowly evaporate. I would love to have the productive distraction > of helping others to realize their own dreams of travel by bike. I am > not selling anything. > > My background: I work as a professor of adventure education at a small > southwestern college. My entire adult life has been dedicated to > teaching others how to enjoy and travel safely in the outdoors. I am a > League of American Bicyclists Bike Ed instructor. I have traveled > thousands of miles as a bike tourist and have spent years of my life > living outdoors in remote wilderness. I have a Quickbeam, a Bombadil, > and an Atlantis. I've toured with the last two. > > Rules of engagement and disclosure: Ask a question or questions via > this forum or via a personal message to me. I clearly don't know > everything and will say so when I don't know. If I don't have direct > experience with something, I'll also say so. No BS. I expect to learn > as well as share. As an open forum, anyone else with direct experience > on a topic should feel free to weigh in or answer a question. If I get > a question via email that I can't answer, I'll post it back to the > group after asking permission from the sender. Please, don't answer a > question with info that you've only heard or read about. Internet > forums are already too full of that kind of second or third hand > advice. That's one of the problems with getting good answers to bike > touring questions. However, if you know of a great resource that's > relevant (like RBW), please share it. I will try to check in on the > RBW Owners Bunch no less than three times a day in order to answer > questions. > > Moderator Jim: The RBW forum is the only internet forum I care to > participate in. I appreciate the quality of thought and the civil > discourse I find here. If you believe that my offer isn't an > appropriate use of this forum, let me know and I'll retract my offer > without a fuss. > > Professor Dave -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bu...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en.
