With the subway down for maybe a week might be doing some urban adventuring on the Bombadil to get into work. I have never commuted cross Borough so will have to map out a route carefully. I have an awful sense of direction so wish me luck! On Oct 30, 2012 6:31 PM, "dougP" <dougpn...@cox.net> wrote:
> Sounds like your snow biking credentials are genuine. I was in Ironwood, > MI, near the WI border, on April 1 many years ago & have never seen so much > snow in my life. They said it was spring because they had half the roads > in town open. > > dougP (NOT a winter guy at all) > > On Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:46:30 AM UTC-7, Jim Thill - Hiawatha > Cyclery wrote: >> >> Brian formerly of MN makes some salient points about the apocalyptic >> weather hereabouts. I rode an Atlantis as my main/only bike for several >> years in Minnesota, so it stands to reason that a suitably equipped >> Bombadil should be fit for occasional duty in hurricane conditions. >> >> In case my "Yoopanese" heritage isn't obvious, I grew up in Upper >> Michigan, which is justifiably noteworthy for long hard winters and rugged >> desolation, and where the "gales of November" were immortalized in a well >> known song. I have funny memories of my Grandfather sitting by the wood >> stove in his easy chair watching the daily horrors on the evening news. If >> some tropical place endured a hurricane or California got shook up by an >> earthquake, he'd say "we got it pretty goddamned good here", seemingly >> oblivious to the hardship of the 10 feet of snow falling outside the >> window, the preceding summer of hard labor in laying in enough firewood to >> survive the winter, or the often impassable 60 miles of 2-lane highway >> between his house and the nearest grocery store (grocery trips usually >> required a week of planning...) >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rbw-owners-bunch/-/ofpdUmFKGLMJ. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@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. > -- 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-bunch@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.
