BMX, Mountain, Cyclocross, road, racing, cruiser, fat tire, trials, trails, gravel grinder, commuter, touring, downhill, single speed… I’m forgetting something, but that’s okay. You guys can fill in the list.
Bring your bikes, no matter the sort- the bike race begins!
Unicycle, tricycle, recliner, two unicycles with a hammock strung between them.
Hit Plaindave in the head with the clipboard I settle down!
Thanks for the insert, Greg! Now I can go tell Darwinskeeper.
-> until I settle down.
Lookin’ good Curtis!
Thanks. Well, Greg got the eyebrows right, anyway.
I’ll bring the unicycle with sidecar. Add a roman candle to the other side pedal underside to shoot off sparks and such as we go… woooo!
Ooooh! May I ride shotgun in the sidecar? It is the closest I will ever get to a unicycle. And I gave up riding my bike five years ago when that last spill resulted in a broken hip.
You must weigh under 75 kg and that includes the potato cannon. You must carry a potato cannon. We have to fire that somewhere, just’cause.
As long as the potato cannon weighs less than 12 kg we’re good. I was a pretty good shot back in college on rifle team, but something tells me that my experience with a 22 is not going to be of much help with that potato cannon. What’s our target, Commander?
(May I stick a roman candle in the potato?)
I can tell you from experience that a .22 rifle and a whatever caliber potato cannon fire differently and they really do aim differently. I think the potato cannon will be under weight restrictions, if not I’ll eat really good first to offset. Better not roman candle the potato, it might have too short a fuse and we’ll end up looking like Paste. Target? Anything you can draw a bead on…. if not, ‘out there, thataway’.
I have zero background in parkour, hang-gliding, and only limited experience in juggling non-infectious monkeys.
So yeah… DIBS!
Clown Bikes?
They are a bear to pedal more than a few feet but the feel of accomplishment when you cancpull it off is amazing.
A circus bike is even tougher.
Coaster bike, tandem, cycle rickshaw, ice cream bicycle (being chased as it leaves the course?), reclining bicycle, recliner on a bicycle, penny farthing, exercise cycle (probably won’t go far…or will it?), prone bike, running bike, kiddie trailer, …
All bikes are exercise bikes.
I’m gonna bring one of those wheels that you sit in the middle of… you know the crazy one… with a 2 stroke engine.
Which will be fine until you get to the “crossing the lake” lg.
lg -> leg.
Diesel and a snorkel. Diesel will run but it needs air so a snorkel for it and another for the rider.
Sign me up for the flaming hang-glider parkour!!
Do we have to provide our own monkeys?
You can juggle Paste, Mal, and Cara’s Dad instead.
Put some outrigger pontoons on my mountain bike and bring oars.
My brother and his son ride pennyfarthing bikes in the local parade on the 4th of July. He also rides a unicycle and “regular” bike. I don’t know about the fat tire ones. (first time I saw one of those – on a July 4th a few years ago, all I could think of to do was to message a kid I had met on a train a couple of years before, on his way home to his mom’s in Hungary from his dad’s in Germany. I asked him about those fat-tired things (you, know, the 4″ tires?) and he allowed as how he had been riding them in the Alps…
I’m just catching up on the archives, so I don’t know what’s coming next, but I am guessing you’ll be seeing me again in the comic, soon, seeing as my entry form specifically mentioned bicycling (I suggested loaded touring events) and my photo was of when I rode my bike into Nova Scotia (having left Montreal about two weeks earlier…)