On some of the local routes, Amtrak allows bikes wheeled on the trained and lashed. When you go cross country they still make you box the bike (fortunately the boxes are big enough that all you need do is turn the bars and remove the pedals).
Crazyguyonabike had a trip report from Hungary I think. It made me jealous that even in such a small country, the train service had cars with bike racks. Some day ... On Jul 15, 2:58 pm, Bill Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > Rather than tack this onto the triathlete thread, i thought i'd start > something new on traveling to a ride, and tie into the earlier threads > on British cycle touring. > > The vast majority of my bike riding (aside from most CX races) start > and end from home. Over the 4th holiday weekend, however, a few > friends and i got an assist to the start of a ride that ended at home > - we took the Amtrak a couple of stops south and rode home. Three of > us did this ride a couple of years ago, but were thwarted last year > because flooding on the line stopped the trains on that stretch for a > couple of weeks. Things worked out great this year with beautiful > weather and a challenging new route mapped out by Jim Thill, who > commented on the ride down "the great thing about this route is that > it has lots of descending!". That guy really knows how to look on the > bright side of 150 miles of hills, gravel, and beautiful southern > Minnesota riding. > > My ride > report:http://wjc.fidean.net/log/2009/07/08/the-2009-winona-trainbike-extrav... > > Jim's report (i don't think he'll mind me linking > here):http://planetary-gears.blogspot.com/2009/07/winona-riders-2009.html > > -- > Bill Connell > St. Paul, MN --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
