Bike shuttles – I’m starting to like them

[eckilson]

@tdaniel

Hey Eck my only trip on Tville in the 80s I walked the shuttle. Being young and dumb I didn’t let the lack of other paddlers deter me. My only bike shuttle was a lesson in misery. South Fork of the Payette (mellow stretch around garden valley Idaho) where the temperatures reached 103 degrees. There was no shade, and the seat bolt fell out so I pedaled standing up. It was really miserable on small single speed folding bike.

Tville is an easy bike shuttle, and it is running now. I hope to get back there this weekend when it comes down a little. For anyone wondering about Tville:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/eckilson/albums/72157715076062808

I ride an old bike, so I do worry about mechanical failures. Fortunately hasn’t happened yet. Maybe after the pandemic is over I’ll be able to find a new bike. Then again, after the pandemic is over I won’t need a new bike…

[eckilson]

@mike93lx

I can’t imagine riding a bike through that death trap. You are braver than I am

Don’t know about brave - by the time I got there I didn’t have much choice. Had I known I would have gone another way.

[mike93lx]

Hey, you could have called an uber

[eckilson]

No car shuttles

[mike93lx]

I know… Just poking fun.

Although I might make an exception for that rotary

[lml999]

Not a single bike photo in this thread.

[eckilson]

Well, biking is secondary to paddling, but how about this:

Ready for anything - helmet for biking, mask for COVID and drysuit for paddling…

[kayakhank]

That’s the strangest looking cycling windsuit I have ever seen…nice way to… git 'r done !