Author Topic: Hunting Rigs - (Read 4854 times)

Old Proflexer · « **on:** September 23, 2006, 02:08:51 am »

I know we've discussed this before but I'm seeing more and more about mountain bikes and archery on the archery sites - this one is for hauling meat.

here's one:
http://tradgang.com//noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=037020

lewism3 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 23, 2006, 10:13:07 am »

I don't think I've ever seen a mountian bike with a bike stand before.

bmwcarver · « **Reply #2 on:** September 23, 2006, 01:20:26 pm »

Bike stand built into the bike. Hmmm. Isn't that for riders that don't know how to lean against a tree or post or lie the bike with the mechs up so it can rest proper?!

Other kiwi · « **Reply #3 on:** September 24, 2006, 01:18:22 pm »

Slightly off-topic, but I can't help wondering why there isn't an olympic event that features archery and mountain biking. If there's a biathlon in the Winter Olympics based on skiing and shooting, bows and bikes has to be at least as entertaining and would be a great summer spectator sport.http://idriders.com/newforum/YaBBImages/grin.gif

Matno · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2006, 03:06:01 am »

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If there's a biathlon in the Winter Olympics based on skiing and shooting, bows and bikes has to be at least as entertaining and would be a great summer spectator sport.http://idriders.com/newforum/YaBBImages/grin.gif

I'm not sure the winter biathlon qualifies as a "great spectator sport". Not a lot of exciting action in a sport where contestants are competing alone against the clock, unless there's high speeds or danger involved. A mountain biking/archery biathlon would be a little more exciting if it were downhill and the archery targets were moving, but as we have seen in the great decline of XC racing sponsorships of the 90's, there are some races that most people just aren't that interested in watching.

lewism3 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2006, 07:31:48 am »

I know, why don't we get a deer dressed up in bike gear, sit it on a mountain bike with one of its mates on the trailer at the back and give it a bow and arrow so that it can shoot at all those ******* hunters.

Olympics here we come!

Carbon_Angus · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2006, 08:35:15 am »

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Slightly off-topic, but I can't help wondering why there isn't an olympic event that features archery and mountain biking. If there's a biathlon in the Winter Olympics based on skiing and shooting, bows and bikes has to be at least as entertaining and would be a great summer spectator sport.http://idriders.com/newforum/YaBBImages/grin.gif

YOU be the first to endo and fall on all of your arrows......hehehe

willem · « **Reply #7 on:** September 27, 2006, 02:44:47 am »

So... lewism... should we assume you're a devoted vegan, or at least a vegetarian?

Killing a wild deer and eating it sure seems much closer to "the natural way" than the utterly disgusting "protein pipeline" that cattle are subjected to. For that matter, pig farms and poultry plants are enough to make any omnivore a hunter!

shovelon · « **Reply #8 on:** September 27, 2006, 04:37:32 am »

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Killing a wild deer and eating it sure seems much closer to "the natural way" than the utterly disgusting "protein pipeline" that cattle are subjected to. For that matter, pig farms and poultry plants are enough to make any omnivore a hunter!

Ted Nugent has a HUGE opinion on the virtues of game meat. Have to agree.

lewism3 · « **Reply #9 on:** September 27, 2006, 09:32:58 am »

Yeah man...... lentil soup, groovy.

shovelon · « **Reply #10 on:** September 27, 2006, 12:41:52 pm »

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Yeah man...... lentil soup, groovy.

Beats my oatmeal and soy milk for breakfast!!!:-( :-( :-(

But all KIDDING aside. Does licking my wounds make me a cannibal?

?
Terry

lewism3 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 28, 2006, 10:03:57 am »

Yeah, ok, sorry.... it looks like I've hit a nerve with you guys across the pond, just having a laugh so to speak.

Remember that this is a specialists mountain site. I don't see any point what so ever in displaying a bike with a trailer on it used for hauling dead animals. What on earth has this got to do with Risse shocks or Girvin Vectors. Post it on the shot em up forum and not this site. Not everyone who rides mountain bikes appreciates seeing this.

Lewis

Old Proflexer · « **Reply #12 on:** September 29, 2006, 02:42:10 am »

I appreciate your comments and point of view Lewis - however, we've been discussing different ways to use our mountain bikes including hunting and road travel for many years here.

You don't have to look at, or click if you dont' want to, at mountain bike rigs that are designed to haul items off road.

I can see that you've been here for a few weeks now. You might want to consider that many of us have been here from the sites inception several years ago (and years well back before that to the original Proflex tech site where, after it was closed, a few of us maintained contact and with the help of a few dedicated individuals, opened this permanent site) and even helped put the site together.

On occasion, we get off on some side tangents, but usually we bring it back around. Mountain biking to and into hunting areas is becoming more common in the western US and has been the subject of several recent articles in archery and gun magazines. In fact, where I will be hunting next month on the White Moutain Apache Indian Reservation in Arizona, and a spot in Colorado that I frequent - motorized vehicles are prohibited. Mountain bikes are the only way to get back in and out several miles on a daily basis.

Welcome, and be sure to check out my personal gallery when they get up an running again -

OP

lewism3 · « **Reply #13 on:** September 30, 2006, 11:31:48 am »

I must admit clicking on to Hunting Rigs I should have realised what the topic was about. However I like to read through every topic in the vein hope I might pick up useful information. I didn't expect to find this subject matter on what is titled a Tech Forum! Not very technical.....

I understand that if it was not for poeple such as yourself this forum would not exist, and I do appreciate what you and others have created. It looks like I'm the only person that has a problem with this, as nobody else agrees with me. May I suggest that you open another folder on the forum titled General so that this, and related subjects are posted there.

I am fascinated with everything Pro Flex having finally purchased one after ten years waiting. You may be an old hand at mountain biking, but don't think that I'm a spotty teenager! Far from it!!!

Managed to look at the gallery, and you have some awesome machines. Keep up the good work and thank you for your welcome.

Lewis

Old Proflexer · « **Reply #14 on:** September 30, 2006, 12:24:18 pm »

this particular forum should go back to january of 2003. click on the largest page number below left on the main forum and that should get you there.

three and a half years of tech knowledge on most of the machines should be found between there and this post.

always good to have our friends from the U.K here
(Tony Blair is one of my favorite world figures and I did manage to get arrested for pulling out my camera in your main parliment building in London -
got carried away i guess both figuratively and literally)

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