need playa bike

antechrist · Post by **antechrist** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 3:03 pm

Hey, I wore my feet down to nubs last time without a bike and I need to have one this year, but I am flying in. I could pick one up in Reno, but I will be in a small rental car and would have problems. I have two ideas that fellow burners could help me with that would be mutually advantageous.

1 Some burner who is driving and has space, pick me up a bike. I will pay for it. Nothing fancy, a $30 goodwill special is just fine. At the end of the event I let you keep it for your trouble.

2 Some burner who has an extra bike. Bring it and I can rent it or we can come to some mutually satisfactory exchange of some kind.

To all the helpful people that will point me to rental bikes offered on this list from last month. I have already checked with those people and they are Sold Out! Any other suggestions that don't involve me duct taping a bike to the roof of the rental I'd love to hear.

Thanks
Brian

MrMullen · Post by **MrMullen** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:31 pm

There are people who sell them in Gerlach. I don't know if/when they sell out but I saw a bunch of them.

MissNev · Post by **MissNev** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 12:59 pm

Ante, pm me. I have a couple of extra and I'll bring them out. I'll be very easy to find out there.

Post by **trilobyte** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 9:40 am

So you're looking to get a POS bike (or have someone get it for you) and then abandon it on the playa?

If you really are not able to take it back with you, then don't take it out to begin with!!!

It's not impossible to get a bike using a rental car. It's a bit of work, but that's part of the deal. If you're unable to pack a spare blanket or old comforter, go buy one at some big box store in Reno once you pick up your vehicle. Then get some clothesline. Both can be had for very little money. Put the blanket on the roof of the car, then the bike on the blanket. Tie your bike securely to the roof of the vehicle. Bring the bike in, then bring the bike out.

Look up a Goodwill dropoff point in Reno, you can unload the items you won't be needing to take back with you on the plane and help others all at once.

~Trilo~

blyslv · Post by **blyslv** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 10:59 am

That's pretty much what I'm doing, but hadn't thouht about the Goodwill.

duh.

Post by **trilobyte** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 12:55 am

I saw way too many abandoned bikes last year to not be a bit of a jerk about people who treat them as throwaways. I also heard from one of the bike charities that only a fraction of the bikes abandoned on the playa could even be hauled back and put to good use. I think the total was between 500 and 1000 bikes, but there were far more than that left lying on the dust. If people could at least get them as far as a Reno dropoff point, then they could at least be put to use somehow.

~Trilo~

jamiman · Post by **jamiman** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 7:09 am

greetings burners
i'm flying in from NY last minute, very tight turnaround.
healing a broken heart at the burn. yum yum.

desparately seeking a BICYCLE for the burn.
i heard someone collects last years & rents them out.
any left ? anybody know who & how ?

many thanks, looking forward.

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