your worst touring bike
Scott Loveless <[email protected]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:48:13 -0500
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Hi Phreds! Just for the sake of conversation, what's the most ill-suited bike you've ever taken on a tour? Every once in a while I'll gaze upon my old Schwinn Continental (now my fixed gear machine) and think that I could easily turn it into a racked and bagged touring bike with just the parts I have laying around. It's all just a mental exercise, since it hangs on a hook next to the LHT. There are, of course, stories about folks riding the bikecentennial on a stock Varsity with a Pletscher rack, or men riding around the world on pennyfarthings or Raleigh DL-1 roadsters, etc. So I was simply curious - what's the heaviest, clunkiest, non-touringest bike you've taken touring? -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com/fivetoedsloth/ __o _'\<,_ (*)/ (*)