Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire On the road again.

Check out that cadence 😎 That guy is making really good time, with bags on it’s slower than that.

Advice needed, opinions requested.

OK, my degree of bicycle studlyness has already been demonstrated, I rode my bike to New Mexico. Enough people are impressed, I have a story to tell the kids when school opens up.

The guy up in Great Falls Montana where I am headed was the best man at my wedding, we are like family. I wasn’t originally planning to ride to Lubbock, I didn’t know his wife would still be here. But she is ( finishing up a six-week course).

She will be done Saturday morning, we both could be in Great Falls Sunday morning July 7th, I would have 30 days left to start over and do a 1,000 - 2,000 mile loop (depending on terrain and my ability to traverse it).based out of Great Falls,

So I gotta decide....

a) Stay the present course to be able to say “Ya, I rode my bike all the way to fuggin’ Yellowstone.”

Or.....

b) Help my friend’s wife on the thousand-mile drive home, be in Great Falls Sunday, start over.

My friend’s wife would much prefer I help her drive back.

I'm pretty sure you didn't ride your bike to New York...

Yep, bicycles are hard to see in the first place and when you DO see 'em the speed/distance of a bicycle is hard to judge from a car or truck. For this reason, even before they do anything stupid, passing bicycles in a motor vehicle is inherently stressful.

What I prob'ly would done in that instance is got off the bike at the start of the off-ramp. Walked the along the edge of the off-ramp hugging the guard rail on the right (being prepared to jump it off the road if necessary), then when I could, cross the access road perpendicular to the guard rail, get back on at the right edge of the main lanes (looks like there's a narrow but ridable shoulder).

Whole lot easier to die on a bicycle than it is on a motorcycle

I may have been driving that truck, I'd just as soon hit a bicycle rider as a gopher on the highway...

Now's yer big chance Bub, heading to Yellowstone from here, I will prob'ly never pass this way on a bicycle again....

Better buy you some Buffalo Bore Outdoorsman Loads for your 9mm Ruger while in Montana 😜

I believe “retarded” is the operative word.