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  1. Original post
    Tom Keats
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    Yesterday my next door neighbour informed me of
    a bike wheel he spotted lodged in the big trees
    at the outer edge of the back yard here. We went
    out to investigate, I yarded the wheel out --
    plus the chain-driven upright trike to which it
    was attached. Someone heaved the whole works
    in there, about seven feet above the ground. I
    was impressed by how those spruce trees swallowed
    it whole, and practically out of sight.

    The trike is very nondescript and decrepit (the decals
    identify it as a Sportek Pacer -- 5 derailleur speeds,
    rear coaster brake, front handbrake.) It's missing the
    front (20"😉 wheel, the drive is rusted to heck, the
    seatpost is apparently glued into the seat tube, and
    the shift and front brake mechanisms are almost totally
    disassembled and missing stuff. But I'm hoping the rear
    axle assembly can be the basis of my upcoming home-built
    trailer project. The assembly is bolted onto the main
    part of the frame, so I consider not having to saw it off
    a bonus.

    Once I get the trailer built, I could use it to haul all
    the exterraneous bits & pieces to somebody's dumpster in
    the middle of the night.

    In the meantime, the damn'd thing is taking up a huge
    amount of space in the basement.

    cheers,
    Tom

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  2. Roger Zoul
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    Tom Keats <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :> Once I get the trailer built, I could use it to haul all
    :> the exterraneous bits & pieces to somebody's dumpster in
    :> the middle of the night.
    :>
    :> In the meantime, the damn'd thing is taking up a huge
    :> amount of space in the basement.

    You just couldn't leave it, huh?

    🙂

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  3. Tom Keats
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    In article <[email hidden]>,

    Roger Zoul said:

    Tom Keats <[email hidden]> wrote:
    :> Once I get the trailer built, I could use it to haul all
    :> the exterraneous bits & pieces to somebody's dumpster in
    :> the middle of the night.
    :>
    :> In the meantime, the damn'd thing is taking up a huge
    :> amount of space in the basement.

    You just couldn't leave it, huh?

    🙂

    I guess not :-) But we can't have junk stuffed up our
    trees, after all. If the landlady spotted it, she would
    have had a fit. Anyhow, once I get the back end off of
    it, I can stuff the rest in the exterior garage, out of
    sight and out of the way, for the time being. The
    landlady never looks in there.

    cheers,
    Tom

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    -- Nothing is safe from me.
    Above address is just a spam midden.
    I'm really at: tkeats [curlicue] vcn [point] bc [point] ca

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  4. Zoot Katz
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    Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:50:03 -0700, <[email hidden]>,

    (Tom Keats) said:

    Someone heaved the whole works
    in there, about seven feet above the ground. I
    was impressed by how those spruce trees swallowed
    it whole, and practically out of sight.

    The technique for bike tossing is similar to that used in the Olympic
    Hammer Throw. You can get them to fly pretty far.
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    zk

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  5. buckyllama
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    That's a pretty impressive toss. I mean anybody can get good distance
    on one of those carbon-unobtanium road bikes. But to chuck a trike?
    that's power. Heck, that's style. Next thing you know you'll be
    finding mopeds and geo metros in your trees.

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  6. Bill Henry
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    Zoot Katz said:

    The technique for bike tossing is similar to that used in the Olympic
    Hammer Throw. You can get them to fly pretty far.

    As a rambunctious teenager, I once threw a friend's bicycle into a tree.
    He had it coming.

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