look like good stuff at KCS I'm with you on the car stuff. A useful nuisance is how I see cars. I really bought my first one mainly for kayaking. I'd never really owned a car for more than a few months before that. I use my car more than I'd like now due to knee hasssles but still ride to work a couple of times a week and get around on it locally. As bike commuters will know a ride to work is fun, exciting, sometimes exhilirating. Drives to work are dull in my book. I love riding in winter here in canberra. It gets cold for Australia and in the morning it is often frosty, below zero and beautifully clear and crsip. I love those mornings on the bike, you warm up after a fewminutes. Most people think you're mad but they just don't know what they're missing. I can't imagine buying a new car - all that depreciation. I wish car manufacturers would get back to gutters. A futile hope I think. My ex and i had a subaru liberty, in addition to the corolla. Nice car (she has it now, well it was actually hers) but roof racks for it cost hundreds of $$s. Madness. What happened to simple, cheap, proven technology? These flash roof racks are certainly not immmune to failure as has been demonstrated here on occasion,. My homemade ones were made by a friend who previously owned the car. They are legs off an old set of roof racks with wooden 2x4s bolted to them. Very solid. My cradles which i've used for some years on a range of racks are scrap wood bases (varnished) and some foam from an old body board shaped with a sureform. the foam is glued to the wood base which sits on the racks. To better fit roof rack bars I attached two thin pieces of wood to the underside of each each cradle so that they fit snugly onto the bars. My friend now has a an old subaru wagon and made some more roof racks. I directed him to Northwest River supplies in Idaho who sell roof rack legs for guttered cars. He got a set and some more 2x4s and made some new racks. nick *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Oct 27 1999 - 15:42:38 PDT
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