Railbiking Anyone? A few months ago while internet surfing, I discovered the sport of railbiking. If you ve never heard of it, I m not terribly surprised. I certainly hadn t. http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-376615.html
Railbiking In The 1980's railbiking in the State of Wisconsin in the 1980 s was rewarding and hazardous at the same time. There was plenty of abandoned or about to be abandoned http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,1269824
Lbw Tue Railbiking left arrow, up arrow, right arrow, Lbw Tue railbiking, 28 Aug 2001. Larger picture 86.5 kB. Larger picture 82.9 kB. Latest update http://www.levkowetz.com/photos/2001/08/2001-08-28-lbw-tue--railbiking/index.htm
Forbes.com - Magazine Article Without a railbike, you will never see the desiccated majesty of Carriso Gorge San Smart has done for railbiking what Thoreau did for pondgazing, http://www.forbes.com/forbes/1999/0531/6311284a_print.html
Extractions: The other night I sat awake in bed, too excited to sleep, intently studying the maps of abandoned railroads spread all around me. "Look, honey, look!" I said to my sleeping wife. "According to this, there's 210 miles of the Colorado midland abandoned east of Glenwood Springs. We could railbike up and over the Continental Divide! Or here, look Nevada! there's 60 miles abandoned between Flanigan and Fernley. We could breakfast in Flanigan and have lunch in Fernley. We could . . . [flipping pages] . . . pedal clear across Nebraska!" That got her. A bilious eye opened. "Why?" she asked. No cars can enter here. From railway to the dried-up stream below is a drop of 1,000 feet. To negotiate the gorge the builders added 17 tunnels and a wooden trestle 633 feet long and 185 feet high. It is a railbiker's paradise, and missing it would be a crying shame. That's what I would have told my wife if she hadn't fallen back to sleep.
Adirondack The letter titled Adirondack railbiking, came from a Dick Bentley of Tupper Lake, We went on a thirty something mile railbike ride on the Adirondack http://therbfamily.homestead.com/adirondack.html
Extractions: M y curiosity was piqued when I saw an article/letter in the 2nd quarter 1996 issue of the "Railbike International Messenger." The letter titled "Adirondack Railbiking," came from a Dick Bentley of Tupper Lake, New York. The Adirondacks were where my family went camping almost every year when I was a child. I just remembered the smell of the pines and the beautiful mountains as I rode in the back of my dad's '56 Chevy station wagon. Driving to Big Moose, which basically is a railroad station surrounded by a bunch of summer cottages, I asked the manager of the restaurant in the station if I could park for a few days in his lot to go on a "bike tour". He said "No, but there's a parking lot for a trail head right around the corner." I parked "Wally", my big green van, in this lot, unloaded the railbike and gear and pushed the bike to the rails. I wanted to be as discreet as possible and got the bike ready out of view of the station.
Ball State Daily News While it may sound like a cycling version of the gokart track at Disney World, railbiking is slightly more entertaining. http://www.bsudailynews.com/news/2004/02/03/Sports/Wills.Wild.World.Of.Sports.Ra
ATL Trail + Rail: 03/01/2004 - 04/01/2004 For more than 100 years people worldwide have been enjoying the sport of railbiking. The 1908 Sears catalog offered a railbike attachment for $5.45. http://trailnrail.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html
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M.WF´s Schienenfahrzeuge... Schinenroller / Schienenfahrrad Translate this page Homepages über railbiking. RONS RIDERS http//www.railriders.net/. Railbike von T.Koegel Railbike.de mit grosser Linksammlung http//www.railbike.de http://www.m-w-f.net/schienen.html
Mariann Es Norbi BXLben: Szabiek BXLben - Railbiking After longlong time of unsuccessful trials, we managed to do the famous railbiking activity close to Namur - although the weather did not look promising http://brusszel.blogspot.com/2007/07/szabiek-bxlben-railbiking.html
Extractions: Bar elegge rossz ido van Belgiumban, a Villa Norbert azert mukodik! Sot ez az esos-huvos nyar ugy latom egyre jobban felertekelodik az otthoni melegrekordok tukreben. Szabi es Reka szegenyek azert neha eleg esos idoben neztek meg a BXLi nevezetessegeket, ugyhogy eleg ambiciozusnak tunt, amikor kitalaltam, hogy menjunk el railbike-olni szombat du. A penteki esi bulibol meg szakado esoben jottunk haza, reggel 8kor meg mindig esett az eso, es 12ig teljesen felhos volt az eg. De mivel mar majdnem 1 eve szerettem volna railbike-olni de sosem jott ossze vmiert, most nem engedtem: ha torik, ha szakad megyunk :)
NetVisits Web Directory - Railbiking railbiking railbiking. NetVisits Web Directory » Sports Recreation » Sports » Cycling » railbiking. railbiking. No listings found in railbiking http://www.netvisits.com/d/c8627.php
Riding The Rails By Bike Okay, if you re like me always on the lookout for a new thrill then railbiking sounds just loopy enough to demand it be tried. But you re thinking, http://savvytraveler.publicradio.org/show/features/1999/19990904/bike.shtml
Extractions: Culture Watch Question of the Week Letters of the Week ... Host's View Here's a new one for the athletically inclined tourist: in the foothills of Mt. Rainier National Park in Washington State, you can now literally ride the rails through forests and valleys by pumping the pedals of a jerry-rigged bicycle. It travels, like a rollercoaster car down OR like a highwire act, on top of the tracks. It's called "railbiking." The Savvy Traveler's Tom Banse was game and sent these impressions. Ride the Rails by Bike by Tom Banse Listen with RealAudio Need audio help? Okay, if you're like me always on the lookout for a new thrill then railbiking sounds just loopy enough to demand it be tried. But you're thinking, what about the trains? A good question, because as railbike entrepeneur Michael Rohde acknowledges, "One train can ruin your whole day." Michael: "The Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad has two routes that they run. During the day, we can run groups on the opposite piece of rail that they're using. We're always in contact with the conductor and with the shop. We have cell phones, all kinds of things to make sure the communication is there." Rohde has handcrafted a fleet of railbikes by buying eight department store mountain bikes and bolting on guidewheels and outriggers. The front wheel rolls securely in place over one rail with the outrigger attached to the other. The safety lecture for newcomers like me is short.
Adventure Cycling Association Railbike Cycling On Abandoned Railroads Reviews the 100year history of Ron s Book About railbiking Illustrates and explains how to build simple http://www.adventurecycling.org/cyp/list.cfm?s=Railbiking&f=lCategory&x=3
The-sports-arena.com - Cycling - Railbikes An association of railbike enthusiasts organized to promote safe and legal railbiking on abandoned rails. Provides newsletter, Railbike http://www.the-sports-arena.com/Cycling/Railbikes.html
StumbleUpon - Andreas2's Web Site Reviews And Blog railbiking in France. There is also a good where you can do it list at ahrtalbahn.de/railbike/index.htm ahrtalbahn.de/railbike/index.htm . http://andreas2.stumbleupon.com/tag/bicycling/
Extractions: search in the directory new/update entry information Homepage: http://www.rrbike.freeservers.com Keywords: Description: Railbikes, Dick Bentley's Railbike Construction Plans, Railbiking the Adirondacks, Railbike Stories, loads of Railbike pictures, and LINKS to Railbikes and Railbiking around the world More entries in the international web directory: www.rrblazingzippo.freewebspace.com
MAKE: Blog: Bicycles Archives Krazmo writes This guy has well thought-out railbike plans for sale, as well as some interesting stories of his railbiking adventures - Link. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/bicycles/10.html
Extractions: var federated_media_section = ''; Subscribe Renew Give a Gift Customer Care ... Technology on Your Time Archive: Bicycles Page 10 of 10 July 29, 2006 Xddorox writes - "These are two homebuilt recumbent bikes that I built from old bicycles. The one with the red seat is mine and the other one is my son's. Check out my photostream for close up detail shots of my son's pocket rocket. " Link. Bicycles Transportation ... Comments June 15, 2006 We've been posting a lot of bicycle mods, hacks and projects from the MAKE photo pool (we're going to give away a few prizes, so keep them coming) - and last week we visited SCUL, a gang that likes to ride strange vessels called choppers, the most exotic bikes, here are a few photos from the secret underground workshop - Link. Related:
Sweden365.com - Railbiking Mer information om railbiking. Skåne » Östra Göinge » railbiking. Dressin på Österlen Skåne » Tomelilla » railbiking. Dressinuthyrning BjörntorpVeberöd http://www.sweden365.com/trips.asp?c=sub-18
Extractions: Wander the West Forums Wander the West WTW Lounge PDA View Full Version : what do you do once your fwc gets you there? lqhikers 07-11-2007, 07:48 PM thought i would start this discussion with one of our hobbies once we set up camp(of course you have to be next to a railroad track!) called railbiking we do it only on unused tracks never on main lines.great way to see country that you cannot get to any other way,also great way to view wild life. would love to hear about fellow fwc&atc campers hobbies! drive slow and enjoy "its the journey" erod 07-11-2007, 08:17 PM railbiking, never heard of that one...we climb (leaving in 1 hour), mtn bike and ski. sometimes we just chill, go for a swim and/or have a few beers. cool thread! 07-11-2007, 10:49 PM Hike, swim, Jeep, eat, drink, talk, walk the dogs, sightsee. Sometimes all of that, sometimes just one or two. While I've walked rails I've never ever seen it done with a setup like that. EdoHart 07-12-2007, 01:04 AM Hike, mtn. bike, explore, base for back packing, cook, swim, amateur astronomy, soak in hot springs, jet ski/water ski, the occasional air show. I've started using the dogs to pull me on a skate board and I've seen off road skate boards, but their pretty expensive, so I'll have to see how well they adapt to on road before dishing out that kind of money.
