jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) (06/13/91)
Archive-name: rec/bicycles/bicycle-trailers/1991-06-05
Archive-directory: draco.acs.uci.edu:/pub/rec.bicycles/ [128.200.16.12]
Original-posting-by: jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer)
Original-subject: Getting a Bicycle Trailer
Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN)
=v= Wow, talk about synchronicity . . .
=v= You see, here at UCBerkeley we just got a bunch of newsgroups
from around the world. UCB has lots of international students,
after all. At any rate, I noticed an Australian bicycles
newsgroup, and took a peek in it out of curiosity.
=v= They were talking about bicycle trailers! And below is an
excerpt of use to anyone interested in the subject. Enjoy.
<_Jym_>
> There is a wealth of information on this topic gleaned from the
> rec.bicycles newsgroup. It is on draco.acs.uci.edu (128.200.16.12)
> by anonymous ftp. The file you want is
>
> pub/rec.bicycles/trailers
>
> It is the administrator's personal workstation, so try to do the
> transfer out of office hours (it's in Irvine, California; Western Time
> Zone).
>
> The Burley D'Lite seems to be the favourite trailer of rec.bicyclists.
-- comp.archives file verification
draco.acs.uci.edu
total 654
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 106426 Jun 3 15:53 faq.jun91
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 1348 Jun 3 15:46 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 11759 Jun 3 15:45 bike.lockers
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 100610 May 8 22:47 faq.may91
drwxrwxrwx 2 1002 512 May 2 23:27 incoming
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 26950 May 2 21:46 biking_log.hqx
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 3224 Apr 17 22:10 biking_log.doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 12420 Apr 3 23:14 competitive.nutrition
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 149358 Mar 2 06:52 trailers
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 12196 Feb 13 12:50 spokelen.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 11428 Feb 13 12:50 spokelen11.bas
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 7314 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike9
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 9469 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike6
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 55501 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike7
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 22593 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike8
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 42091 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike5
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 13916 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike4
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 14575 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike3
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 6951 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike2
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 6651 Feb 11 16:42 spike.bike1
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 1861 Feb 11 16:42 spikes.bike
-rw-r--r-- 1 1002 3690 Feb 11 16:18 tandem.boxes
found bicycle-trailers ok
draco.acs.uci.edu:/pub/rec.bicycles/