 Poster: A snowHead
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This interesting article from today's Globe and Mail (in Toronto) gives an evocative account of mountainbiking via the lifts and mountain trains of Switzerland.
Sounds superb!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, sounds great-just off to Serre Chevalier with mountain bikes tomorrow.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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When I was in Grindelwald last month I had a go at Trottibiking. This is a scooter with brakes. You get the First gondola up to Bort and then hire a bike. There is a path that is very steep and you go bombing down it, returning the bike to the base station when finished. Great fun!
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Elizabeth B, sounds like fun. Found a picture of a trotti bike
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Magical Trotti Biking – Our Motto – Ride until the dragon hisses and the brakes are on fire!
Trotti bikes have been used for over a hundred years for fun and now they are seeing a revival in popularity. Everyone loves to see the old Trotti Bikes hurtling down the narrow mountain roads to Beatenberg. There are two different and thrilling routes between 6 and 12km long from Vorsass down to Beatenberg. |
From the Lake Thun website This one and your Grindewald were the only 2 places google spat out for trottibiking.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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| This one and your Grindewald were the only 2 places google spat out for trottibiking. |
Read about something called a Diggler recently which sounds very simillar so maybe it goes by different names.
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You see a lot of these trotti bikes now, you seem to be able to rent them most places and take them up on the lift.
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Looks like fun and I suppose calling them a scooter would be too close to a childhood toy for some. And maybe Lambretta have it trademarked ? But no way are they bikes. No pedals and no saddle. But I must admit trotti bike does have a nice ring to it. That reminds me - no bell either !! I don't 'dig' Diggler. Any better ideas for a name, snowHeads ?
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| That reminds me - no bell either !! |
The one I rode did have a bell!!!
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