Jul

10

2009

Amphibious bikes in the North Saskatchewan

0 comments at 10:09 am posted by Chris C

You know you want one of these:

Corvine Thain, vice-president of the Oil City Derby Girls, insists her crew won’t be wearing their roller gear for the event. “Our bearings might seize.”

Thain isn’t kidding. The ladies have yet to test their raft, an eight-metre-long, two-metre-tall paddlewheel constructed from old bed frames and tandem bicycles. It could be sink or swim.

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