Originally Posted by climbo
rockmuncher would appreciate this one...
I got the fastest madison sling ever last night on the way home. A flatbed tow truck cut me off at a roundabout and I was all pissed off and fuming etc.... Coming up to the next light he's just taking off so I thought bugger it, I'll use him to grab a lift up the road and sure enough, timed it right, grabbed the rail on the truck bed and we were off, slowly getting up to about 60 km/h and then I let go near the top of the hill before the next roundabout. I've drafted trucks but never hitched a ride until then, not a bad way to go up hills
Woo hoo...bike messenger style!
Large potential to go horribly wrong, but fun at the time.
Old style trams in Melbourne used to be used as tow vehicles up the Collins St hill by the messengers all the time a few years back when I worked in the CBD.