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Old 02-08-03, 07:42 PM
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Rich Clark
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If anyone remembers Heinlein's "The Rolling Stones" (written in the mid-Fifties) the teenage heroes, Castor and Pollux Stone, hoped to make a killing transporting a load of used bicycles to Mars, fixing them up enroute, and then selling them for use by tourists.

I seem to recall another novel about prospectors on Mars using big-tired bikes in much the same way the archetype Wile West prospectors used their mules, but I'm blanking on any further detail.

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