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Originally Posted by
werewolf
LOL - I like your style werewolf.
Actually, I just returned from walking about 105 miles in Spain and carrying my kit. There were many times when I'd have loved to sail down hill on a velocipede just like the ones in the picture. We laugh at these crude machines that are the forerunners of our bikes and understandably so, but they did provide wonderful relief from walking when it came to a downhill stretch. Walking down hill carrying a bag is a pain in the bum.
I felt especially regretful when passed by people on mountain bikes. It just looked so easy by comparison to walking.
Thank you, you long-legged velocipede terror of the public byways!
Actually, those things were more than halfway there, I think. They made going downhill fun, and on level ground they were fun too, like scooters, and you just pushed them uphill, and bicycles were never very good going uphill anyway, then or now, ultra low granny gears and all that nonsense notwithstanding.
I was hiking through Holland once, years ago, through the beautiful tulip fields. I don't remember seeing any other hikers in the country. Everybody was either in a motor vehicle or on a bicycle.