Hey there gang,
I just got hooked on cycling six months ago, in my obsessive-compulsive sorta' fixed on it like a pit bull kinda way. But alas, three months from now i head over to Eastern Africa, were I do biological research and run a field school in ecology and conservation for American and Candadian undergrads.
My question is this: Because i live out with the beasties of the Afrian plain, it is not particularly safe to cycle about out there, nor run. We swim in the nearby river, but only when the hippos have been kind enough to move downstream from their hole for the day. But I shall miss my bike! I must have it with me.
So, do any of you all know about foldable bikes and relatively light trainers that i might be able to bring to my field camp in kenya? these things do not have to be tricked out....just geometricalliy sound (the bike), and offereing reasonable resistance (the trainer), so that i might get 4-5 months worth of workouts over there since i can't be back here...
any perspectives? solutions? arcane wisdom? all would be greatly appreciated--
Toad in Davis, CA
http://www.kenyawilds.com/faculty.html
I just got hooked on cycling six months ago, in my obsessive-compulsive sorta' fixed on it like a pit bull kinda way. But alas, three months from now i head over to Eastern Africa, were I do biological research and run a field school in ecology and conservation for American and Candadian undergrads.
My question is this: Because i live out with the beasties of the Afrian plain, it is not particularly safe to cycle about out there, nor run. We swim in the nearby river, but only when the hippos have been kind enough to move downstream from their hole for the day. But I shall miss my bike! I must have it with me.
So, do any of you all know about foldable bikes and relatively light trainers that i might be able to bring to my field camp in kenya? these things do not have to be tricked out....just geometricalliy sound (the bike), and offereing reasonable resistance (the trainer), so that i might get 4-5 months worth of workouts over there since i can't be back here...
any perspectives? solutions? arcane wisdom? all would be greatly appreciated--
Toad in Davis, CA
http://www.kenyawilds.com/faculty.html