There is a several hundred mile bicycle race in the winter time in Alaska. Some tend to get creative regards to the tires with studs and multiple tires at each end.
Kenneth Waller ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mullan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: OT: Snow doesn't stop bikers > Back in the dark ages, I delivered newspapers by bicycle in suburban > Boston > by bicycle, 12 months out of the year, rain or shine, or snow, or ice. > Morning papers, before the sun was up. What's the problem with bicycles > in > the snow. That's how I funded my first two cameras. Not Pentax, but how > I > got my start. > > jm > > >>From: Paul Sorenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >>Subject: OT: Snow doesn't stop bikers >>Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2006 12:29:58 -0600 >> >>For Frank - from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's web news - 9 inches of >>snow so far, and still falling. >> >>-P >>---------------- >>*Bicycle messengers riding out the storm* >> >>The streets in downtown Milwaukee are a mess of snow, testing cars and >>plows at each intersection. >> >>Not the bikers. >> >>Breakaway Bicycle Courier, a downtown messenger service, has five riders >>on the streets this morning, plus one who is using a car. Neither rain, >>nor snow, nor .... It goes for bicycle messengers, too. >> >>"We never stop here," said dispatcher Eric Von Munz, in between handling >>a steady volume of calls. >> >>He said the riders, who carry items from office to office, don't have to >>worry as much about cars, since the traffic is slowed. And they can >>follow in the tread marks of cars, which press a path into the snow. >> >>"It's a lot easier than you think," Von Munz said. >> >>But wouldn't the riders prefer a nice warm day, the sun shining and a >>gentle breeze blowing? Not necessarily. >> >>"We love it," Von Munz said. "This is great." >> >> >>-- >>PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>[email protected] >>http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
