Originally Posted by
andydreisch
I was always curious if the ceremonial dipping of the wheels in either the Pacific or Atlantic at the start of a TransAm was a wise thing.
Doesn't the salt water get into the wheel and cause problems? Not that this would stop me if I were to do a TransAm, mind you. The ceremony is an important one, after all.
When my wife and I rode from Los Angeles to Washington DC in 1977 (originally intending Boston as our destination), we took a vial of Pacific seawater and planned to pour it into the Atlantic. I'm not sure we did and I hope we didn't upset the ecology by this omission. OMG--is that when global warming began?!!!