Horses and Donkeys

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

I just got back from northern Michigan’s Ride Around Torch Lake. Best tour I’ve done yet. So fun. So many riders. But again, back to square one with the prejudice when the hordes of stereotypical roadies see me on the tour. I giggled with my sister about some of it on the phone today.

My sister said, I always think you’re riding a donkey. You have a donkey. Everyone is riding a horse and Leah brought a donkey! Donkeys are so powerful and you can saddle them with an incredible amount of weight. When you charge up hills, pull liters and liters of water out of your bag AND a change of clothes you know everyone with a horse is looking at you like you’re a loon. They are carrying one little bottle to keep their horses light and you’ve packed down your donkey. Everyone underestimates the donkey. I’m going to change your name in my phone to Donkey.

There was one other donkey on the ride. I’ll send pics of both in the next post.

Who else loves their donkey?!

Leah

[Leah Peterson]

On Jul 22, 2024, at 9:34 AM, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! <jonasa...@gmail.com> wrote:



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[DJC]

Leah,

I love donkeys!! That's all I ride, and it's all that I'll ever ride. I can't imagine trading comfort, beauty, and practicality for speed.

Long live donkeys, and those that ride them!!!

Best,

Dave

[Jim in Mpls]

I'm more of an ass! :)

Jim

[George Schick]

Tell your sister that instead of just "Donkey" in her cell phone she should use the name "Francis."  There's a great meaning behind this name, but I'll leave it up to everyone on this blog to figure it out.  The first one to come with the right answer will get their choice of a component from my spare parts box(es)!

[John Rinker]

Hey George,

Francis was the talking donkey! Actually, mule.

Cheers,

John

[Bill Lindsay]

Leah

You've got more of a burro vibe, in my view of the universe.  

Bill Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[George Schick]

John - you win!!  PM me for any parts you might need.  I'll see if I've got 'em.

[Leah Peterson]

Is a burro prettier? Better teeth, perhaps? Donkey teeth is an insult, probably.  I can be a burro. 

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On Jul 22, 2024, at 2:00 PM, Bill Lindsay <tape...@gmail.com> wrote:

Leah

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[Curtis McKenzie]

Here you go.

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[Nick Payne]

On Tuesday 23 July 2024 at 2:38:59 am UTC+10 George Schick wrote:

Tell your sister that instead of just "Donkey" in her cell phone she should use the name "Francis."

Or "Dapple" - the name Sancho Panza gives his donkey in Don Quixote. Dapple is pretty much a character in his own right, as is Rocinante, Don Quixote's horse.

The last Lynsey frame I bought had really ugly logos on it, so I used acetone to remove them from the bare titanium, leaving just the Lynskey headbadge, and renamed the frame Rocinante:

Nick Payne

[Bill Lindsay]

I think of burro as a small donkey, and I think of both of them being smarter, and more cautious than horses.  They are definitely cute.  Burros in particular can pull off a hat/bandanna ensemble that would knock your socks off.  IMO

BL in EC

[Mike Rossi]

I believe donkey and burro are the same animal. But, I like to think that a mule has better teeth as a fellow I know always greets me with, “there’s Smiley, grinning like a mule eating briars”.

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I think of burro as a small donkey, and I think of both of them being smarter, and more cautious than horses.  They are definitely cute.  Burros in particular can pull off a hat/bandanna ensemble that would knock your socks off.  IMO

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[Eric Daume]

Sorry all, burro is already claimed for bikes. Here's an example I found:

https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/1300949

Somehow, those fat 20" wheels don't look so odd anymore.

Eric

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[Bernard Duhon]

In (Louisiana donkeys are known to be aggressive and protective to young  calves , and I put in the pasture with the calves to protect the calves from coyotes.

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[Kim H.]

Burros are just small donkeys with long hair. Burro is the Spanish, Portuguese and Mexican name for donkey.

Kim Hetzel.

[Josh C]

Leah, donkey!! Love it! I'm going to start using that to describe my bikes. I occasionally find myself talking to someone at work, or the like, who finds out that I ride bikes but only know bicycles as fully plastic road or MTB bikes, and find it difficult to quickly tell them that I do ride bikes but not the sort they are familiar with. It'd be much easier to use a quick Horses and Donkeys metaphor and move on. I ride a donkey. 

[George Schick]

I figgered I'd do a web search just for the heck of it and, no surprise, here's what came up:

https://donkybike.com/#:~:text=Donky%20Bike%20is%20a%20versatile%20load%20carrier.&text=Designed%20to%20be%20ridden%20easily,handling%20remain%20light%20and%20balanced.

[Glen]

Copenhagen is crawling with orange donkey bikes. 

https://www.donkey.bike 

[Pam Bikes]

I'm definitely a donkey too!

My sleeping bag won't fit in my panniers and I didn't even have to carry the tent.  I can strap it to the front handlebars but only if it's not in the dry bag b/c I got a big one to keep everything dry.   And the big drybag won't fit anywhere except on top of the rear rack.  

[R. Alexis]

Nice donkey! 

Was this Michigan ride in addition to the other ride you mentioned doing from Chicago east and north along Lake Michigan? 

Thanks,

Reginald Alexis

[Bicycle Belle Ding Ding!]

Yes! I did the Chicago ride in June and rode around Torch Lake in July. Fabulous, both rides.

L

[st nick]

Fun thread.

I met a neat old fellow on a trip to Colorado several years back who introduced me and my grandsons to his mild mannered donkey.

He named him Donkey-Oatey which I thought was a hoot.

He also had several horses.

He let my daughter ride one of the horses.

He was such a nice friendly old fellow.

Most of my bikes are donkeys or burros.

I have one 22 or 23 pounder that might be more of a horse.

Paul in Dallas 

[Patrick Moore]

Donkeys. Tiny little things about as tall as Irish Wolfhounds were very, very common on the subcontinent 50 and 60 years ago, the poor man's pickup truck, and you'd see young Pakistanis in particular on stripped-down gofast 2-wheel carts -- small car wheels with very used tires to match on a 36" X 36" platform hitched to one of these miniatures darting through the chaotic downtown mix of listing buses, decrepit lorries, blue-smoke-buzzing-2-stroke auto rickshaws, and rich sahib sedans, wee little legs going 600 rpm as the rider flicked his whip over them.

In India, age 9 or 10 a friend and I came across a laborer with his donkey and my friend begged a ride. He got on and the donkey immediately bucked him over its head.

A Clem is at least 25% bigger than these little donkeys.

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[aeroperf]

Ahh, donkeys.
In 2008 my wife and I decided to do the Robert Louis Stevenson trail in Cevennes, France.

After all, it worked for him.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travels_with_a_Donkey_in_the_C%C3%A9vennes.

You take a “little yellow train” to the top of France’s Central Massif, and hike down.  Photo 1 - Langogne.

Donkey content:  Of course, the donkeys are still there.  Photo 2 - Donkey at Le Monastier.

Bicycle content:  These two French gentlemen were doing the whole trail on trikes.  Talk about loaded...  Photo 3 - Trikes at Villefort.