Hunting Bikes

[gringol]

In areas listed as "no motorized vehicles allowed", how will the authorities view an electric bike?

[Steve Kendrot]

Wheel em out! Much easier than dragging!!

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[3arrows]

If you can afford it,check out the Zero bike.

[no]

rode a Jamis mt bike a hile back for Turkeys, worked great.  Mike

[wtpops]

Originally posted by Recurve50 LBS:
If you do kill a deer how do you get it out of the woods?

Here's how i get my game out.

 

Im now building a new bike up to hunt, my old one the on in the pic is giving up, it has served me will though.

[gringol]

Wtpops, where did you find thst cart?  How much weight can it handle?

[Arrowest]

The cart behind the bike is a great idea.  I have a couple of friends that built a couple and used them frequently. When not using bikes, they would stash one in the bush way back in and use it to haul out animals by hand.  Slightly different design in that it had a goose neck from the trailer that clamped to the seat post and had a frame that suspended a heavy duty sewen tarp bag between the wheels.

Two of us hauled 3/4's of a cow moose and the hide out 1 1/2 miles in 6" of fresh snow on one hunt.  Hooked on to it like we were a couple of sled dogs.  Very sturdy if welded up right and with good wheels on it.  I'll see if I can find a photo and post it.

[tinesnbeards]

probably could use a kid trailer that mounts on the seat stem.

[Grey Taylor]

Originally posted by gringol:
In areas listed as "no motorized vehicles allowed", how will the authorities view an electric bike?

Wilderness areas are "no motorized vehicles" and bicycles are not allowed in them, electric or leg powered.
Other areas may have different rules, YMMV.

Guy

[Angus]

Gents, as a former Category 1 rider, I want to caution you all NOT to pull bigger gears, especially on those hills-spin, spin, spin, and your knee problems won't develop. Another thing to consider is using some form of toe clips to keep your feet in the pedal-gives you considerably more power, especially on the hills.  It also makes it more difficult to get the feet out quickly if needed, and shoes are always an issue-they're all low-topped shoes. it takes some time to get used to riding with locked-in feet!

I ride a fully-suspended Felt Virtue Three, with hydraulic disk brakes, which comes in really handy.  A bunch of us used to ride up a closed forest road (closed for motors)up to the wilderness boundary, stash the bikes, and hike in to work over the trout.  Every time I'd hit the road back, which was 5.5 miles of downhill, I'd have one spot where I was moving about 35-40mph. There's a bunch of rock maples at the bottom of this one straight stretch with a little right-hand turn, and out pops a doe about 30 yards from me with the "gotcha" expression on her face!!!  Talk about locking up the brakes  

[straitera]

My Trek (posted pix before) w/pull cart died. But, I had the good fortune to find a 27" frame here. Had to completely rebuild every brake & gear connection. The panniers are great for transporting my 70" Hills already strung along w/backquiver. I tie them to the seat post standing upright for the drive way back into the woods. Perfect as they do not encounter bushes when vertical.

 

[wtpops]

Originally posted by gringol:
Wtpops, where did you find thst cart?  How much weight can it handle?

Got it off the internet. It was advertized as 100# max but i took off the spoke wheels, which was no doubt the main weight restriction and added some composite BMX rims, Ive had 180 on it with no problem to the cart but 180# pushing you down hill you better take it slow, that much weight will push you around.