On 8 Aug 2003 14:01:17 -0700, (Paul J. Knoerr) wrote:

I'm planning a short 4 day canoe trip down the Wabash River and would
like to carry a bike with me to ride back to my starting point.

How you gonna carry the canoe on the bike?

http://skydivehasher.com/ragbrai/day2/canoebike.jpg

(It's a guess)

On 8 Aug 2003 14:01:17 -0700, (Paul J. Knoerr) wrote:

How you gonna carry the canoe on the bike?

Also see http://www.victoriabybike.com/trailers.htm

If you want a good easy handling bike that can be reduced in size
without tools, check out montagueco.com. They make "performance" folding
mountain bikes. According to a mountainbiker I know they are quite good.

Brian wrote:

I'm planning a short 4 day canoe trip down the Wabash River and would
like to carry a bike with me to ride back to my starting point. Does
anyone know if you can fit a standard bike in a standard 16 foot canoe
safely, perhaps by removing one or both wheels? It will be a rented
canoe so I can't experiment before hand. Looks like there's some room
between the rear seat and the first bar across but don't know if you
can fit a bike frame under it.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated and happy paddling!

On 5 Aug 2003 09:06:35 -0700, in rec.boats.paddle you wrote:

I'm planning a short 4 day canoe trip down the Wabash River and would
like to carry a bike with me to ride back to my starting point. Does
anyone know if you can fit a standard bike in a standard 16 foot canoe
safely, perhaps by removing one or both wheels? It will be a rented
canoe so I can't experiment before hand. Looks like there's some room
between the rear seat and the first bar across but don't know if you
can fit a bike frame under it.

At last year's "Paddlefest", I did it like this:

http://www.tomuphoto.com/paddlefest/pages/DSC_5983.html


Any thoughts greatly appreciated and happy paddling!

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