s_beaudry
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In the free time I have, I often wonder thru Ebay and Youtube just searching around and wasting time aimlessly...
On Youtube, I happened across a few videos by chance of homebuilt railroad bicycles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6gM-qtjTU
Now this one seems to be quite well constructed, but a few tweaks to a run of the mill motorized bicycle could very well produce an effective way to travel (abandoned) railroad tracks!
Now to talk about the railroad tracks, traveling on regularly traveled rails could be quite dangerous.... But I remember many years ago in the early days of the internet, circa 1996 maybe, coming across a database that had listings by state of all abandoned railroad tracks and thier starting and ending locations. I am researching now where this updated information would be available from.
Kind of crazy, but it could be a nice ride to find an abandoned set of tracks and cruise them out (possibly) a 100 miles or so with no worries of other cars or such. And just think of that nice smooth ride.
Any thoughts on the idea of modifying a MB and cruising an abandoned set of tracks?
On Youtube, I happened across a few videos by chance of homebuilt railroad bicycles...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE6gM-qtjTU
Now this one seems to be quite well constructed, but a few tweaks to a run of the mill motorized bicycle could very well produce an effective way to travel (abandoned) railroad tracks!
Now to talk about the railroad tracks, traveling on regularly traveled rails could be quite dangerous.... But I remember many years ago in the early days of the internet, circa 1996 maybe, coming across a database that had listings by state of all abandoned railroad tracks and thier starting and ending locations. I am researching now where this updated information would be available from.
Kind of crazy, but it could be a nice ride to find an abandoned set of tracks and cruise them out (possibly) a 100 miles or so with no worries of other cars or such. And just think of that nice smooth ride.
Any thoughts on the idea of modifying a MB and cruising an abandoned set of tracks?