Riv Bombadil... Ultimate Hurricane Bike??

[Montclair BobbyB]

With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on us here in NJ, I'm already considering how I may need to move about in the aftermath, particularly if roads are closed with downed trees... My trusty Bombadil will remain at the ready.

Good luck to all whose lives and property sit in the crosshairs of this scary storm.

Peace,
BB

[Allingham II, Thomas J]

Two universal happy places for me – one sitting at my house at the beach, looking out over the bay, and the other in the saddle of any of my bikes.  The storm is threatening one, but at least the other will be available while necessary house and dock repairs are being made.

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[Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery]

Best wishes that all you Right Coasters come through this relatively unscathed. One thing I like about Minnesota is that we never have apocalyptic weather ;)

On Monday, October 29, 2012 1:39:41 PM UTC-5, Pudge wrote:

Two universal happy places for me – one sitting at my house at the beach, looking out over the bay, and the other in the saddle of any of my bikes.  The storm is threatening one, but at least the other will be available while necessary house and dock repairs are being made.

 

From: rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com [mailto:rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Montclair BobbyB
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 2:27 PM
To: rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [RBW] Riv Bombadil... Ultimate Hurricane Bike??

 

With Hurricane Sandy bearing down on us here in NJ, I'm already considering how I may need to move about in the aftermath, particularly if roads are closed with downed trees... My trusty Bombadil will remain at the ready.

 

Good luck to all whose lives and property sit in the crosshairs of this scary storm.

 

Peace,
BB

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[Steve Palincsar]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 12:36 -0700, Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery wrote:
> Best wishes that all you Right Coasters come through this relatively
> unscathed. One thing I like about Minnesota is that we never have
> apocalyptic weather ;)

No, just Fimbulwinter...

[justin...@gmail.com]

Things are windy in Philly right now. My school is closed for two days. Things are supposed to get bad in 2 hours. My girlfriend is a nurse and she had to bring extra clothes in case she needs to stay at the hospital.

Shoulda put on those fenders!

-J

[Brian Hanson]

OK - I can't let this one by, Jim.  I consider golf-ball-size hailstorms, tornados, and 40 below apocalyptic.  I've been through more "weather that could hurt you" in MN than my 20+ years on the Left Coast  :)  

Good luck with the hurricane, righties!

Brian

Seattle, WA (formerly MN)

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[lungimsam]

I have my bike light mounted to my helmet to wear around the house if the power goes out.

 

Just rainy and really windy here in Ellicott City, MD. We still have power, but there are alot of people without power now. Hope it comes on soon.

Looks like the eastern shore of Maryland (~3.5 hours by car from here) really got flooded. I saw a pic of people chest deep in water in the streets of Ocean City, MD.

 

 

 

[Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery]

Brian formerly of MN makes some salient points about the apocalyptic weather hereabouts. I rode an Atlantis as my main/only bike for several years in Minnesota, so it stands to reason that a suitably equipped Bombadil should be fit for occasional duty in hurricane conditions.

In case my "Yoopanese" heritage isn't obvious, I grew up in Upper Michigan, which is justifiably noteworthy for long hard winters and rugged desolation, and where the "gales of November" were immortalized in a well known song. I have funny memories of my Grandfather sitting by the wood stove in his easy chair watching the daily horrors on the evening news. If some tropical place endured a hurricane or California got shook up by an earthquake, he'd say "we got it pretty goddamned good here", seemingly oblivious to the hardship of the 10 feet of snow falling outside the window, the preceding summer of hard labor in laying in enough firewood to survive the winter, or the often impassable 60 miles of 2-lane highway between his house and the nearest grocery store (grocery trips usually required a week of planning...)

[Leslie]

20-some years ago, I got to go w/ Dad on a trip to the Oshkosh airshow, spent all week there (selling airplane brake discs, for a friend of my dad's).  One day, having worked most of the week, my dad's friend told us to take a day off... so, we jumped in the car and drove from Oshkosh to Sault Ste Marie and back. Spent the night in a place called Thompson, in a cabin on the shore of Michigan...  it was late July, and was below 40 that evening.   Remember a lot of forest, not a lot else... pretty country, but kinda lonely...

[Jim Thill - Hiawatha Cyclery]

I went to college in Sault Ste Marie, and Thompson was about 30 miles from where I grew up.

[dougP]

Sounds like your snow biking credentials are genuine.  I was in Ironwood, MI, near the WI border, on April 1 many years ago & have never seen so much snow in my life.  They said it was spring because they had half the roads in town open. 

dougP (NOT a winter guy at all)

[Peter Morgano]

With the subway down for maybe a week might be doing some urban adventuring on the Bombadil to get into work. I have never commuted cross Borough so will have to map out a route carefully. I have an awful sense of direction so wish me luck!

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[Montclair BobbyB]

For real... If you've got, em, ride em. The gas situation is worse than I recall the 1974 "gas crisis" being... I counted 50 cars in line at each of 2 gas stations this morning. I'm getting barraged with emails and phone calls from friends and family asking "are there any gas stations with reasonably short lines open by you?"  Some people reportedly have been waiting as long as 4 hours for gas!!!  I rode my bike to dinner last night, and I plan to leave my car in my driveway as much as possible.

I hope this situation improves, or I fear people will begin eating each other. 

Peace,
BB