My son went on his first S24O when he was eight months old. Go on the overnights, and take the toddler! Little boys love to go camping, and it's amazing how much a stick can entertain a little boy.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Lee <leec...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Mike. It was a fun trip. You know, I first started thinking about > camping by bike when i came across this 2006 article in the San Francisco > Chronicle: > > > http://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Bike-camping-isn-t-as-hard-as-it-looks-Bay-Area-2515742.php > > Funny enough, there is a reference to Rivendell in there, plus some quotes > from Grant. It was the first I had heard of Riv and I scoured the site > regarding bike camping, and that's how I was introduced to the idea of the > S24O. I still didn't do it as my bikes were beat-up old single-speeds, and > I had no company. A friend on a car-camping trip overheard me talking about > it, and it turns out he had been thinking about it for a while, too, and he > had a garage full of older UJB-type bikes ready for retrofitting. > > Anyway, now he owns a Bleriot and I own a Quickbeam, and he and I have > gone on many S24Os together. Now that I have a two-and-a-quarter year old > son at home, I'm planning on amending the S24O to an S20O format. ;) > > Best regards, > Lee > > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 7:16:21 PM UTC-7, Mike Schiller wrote: >> >> wow Lee. that looked like an awesome trip. >> >> ~mike >> >> On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 9:02:37 AM UTC-7, Lee wrote: >>> >>> Doug, >>> >>> Planet of the Apes (a.k.a. Old San Pedro Mountain Road) used to be the >>> main road from South San Francisco/Pacifica to the coast/Half Moon Bay, >>> etc. The old old Highway 1 as it were. The Devil's Slide Highway 1 route >>> was created to replace it, and now it's a dilapidated, crumbling, >>> sometimes-paved, sometimes-not path used by hikers and cyclists. It's >>> pretty fun to ride. But, as Ray mentioned, if you are carrying a heavy or >>> wide load, you may find it tedious. >>> >>> I have a few pics of it in the first part of this set: >>> >>> *http://tinyurl.com/4xgu4ye* >>> >>> Feel free to e-mail me when you get closer to your trip, if you need >>> more specifics on how to get to the trail head from SF. >>> >>> Best, >>> Lee >>> >>> >>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Anne Paulson My hovercraft is full of eels -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
