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08-07-2006, 06:03 PM #16
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um, I thought that if you tried to mount your bike from the right side, the devil came and took you away...
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08-09-2006, 04:28 AM #17
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i started life out with nothing, and have most of it left[
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08-09-2006, 05:13 AM #18
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Wow, Beck, that is about as strawberry as a strawberry roan can be!
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08-09-2006, 05:32 AM #19
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I've had a strawberry roan Walker and a red roan Morgan. Always wanted a gruello, though. But that's a whole other thing. Closest I came was an almost white buckskin Hackney(horse not pony)/Arab. (The one who was hit by a car and killed :-( )***********
"...I'm like the cycling version of the guy in Flowers for Algernon." Mike Magnuson
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08-09-2006, 08:35 PM #20
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My horse is now made of steel!!
This thread is so funny! I owned and rode a Five-Gaited American Saddlebred mare from 1977--1996 (I lost her to Alzheimers at age 28) and I took up cycling in 1998. I never thought about it but I mount and handle my bike entirely on the left side!! In fact, I refer to my bikes as "girls" and my Bianchi cross-terrain is my "Morgan" and my new Guru road bike is my "Five-Gaited" mare.
We LOVED our mare and she loved us back! There is a huge portrait of her in our bedroom--whenever I do my weight workout I see her the entire time!! I know from horse-heaven she "sees" me riding bicycles and smiles!
I wish I had owned a MTB back in the 80's and 90's so I could ride beside her in the pasture. She loved to play "tag" where I would run at her and snap a towel at her--she would run around and toss her head playfully! I would have had so much fun with her playing "tag" on a MTB!!Fit and Fabulous on a Bike...Decrepit on a Horse!
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08-10-2006, 01:28 PM #21
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Beautiful horse! Is he/she a varnish app? Please post more pictures!
Originally Posted by beckt
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08-10-2006, 01:42 PM #22
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I have a "Morgan Bike" too. It's a Novara Randonee touring frame that we built with flat bars. It's mostly my commuter bike. It's so small that it takes 26" wheels. It's a versatile bike, like the Morgan breed. It could easily be built to be a road touring bike with drop bars and slick tires, or a mtn touring bike with knobbies. It's a ride-and-drive bike. I can pull a Bob trailer with it. Originally Posted by Michelemarrano
My black road bike is called Ruffian, after my favorite race horse. This bike is more of a sport touring bike, it's not very fast. It handles any road conditions with aplomb. I kinda think of it more as a Connemara Pony type, sporty but not quite a Thoroughbred.
My touring bike, a Long Haul Trucker, is named Camion. I used to know a TB/Hanoverian gelding by that name. It also means truck in French.
I lived and breathed horses for 20 years. I had an old Appy gelding, Felix. Lost him to colic
Then I had a retired Standardbred, Shaw, for a short time. Then I had a little Morgan (?) gelding, Sam. I also got a BLM Mustang mare, Sijin. I had her for 8 years and lost her to colic too. After that I rode other peoples horses and eventually got away from it as i went to college (at 33) and got into bicycling more. A few years ago I sold off the last of my tack and bought my road bike. I haven't ridden horses much at all in 5 yrs or so.
I still love horses and I kinda stay involved in them thorugh the model horse hobby. Is anyone else aware of that hobby? I've been in it since '81.
