time to cash in on all that quar freetime, put uncle spaghetti up on your lap, and tell him a story
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Partner and I decided to do an overnight hiking trip. We booked a car, found a route, decided we’d rather not walk over 4 miles on the side of the road this weekend, hence the “shuttle bike” to move the car to the end of the loop and then ride to the start. Luckily her bikes are much smaller than mine so she had to do the shuttling.
We got to the rental car place on Saturday morning and the attendant said “the only car we have is a Camaro.” Ok, guess we will have to drive that into the mountains! So we went and did the hike, went back to the start to retrieve the hidden shuttle bike, and drove home.
The pontoon part is a joke.
thats a nice bike to leave in a ditch in the middle of the woods lol
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You would say that about one of your bikes. It was locked to a tree ¯_(ツ)_/¯
The odds are so low that someone is going to walk off the road up to the trailhead and climb up a random part of this rock face, find a bike, and then decide to steal it, that we don’t really worry about it any more. This is not the first time we have shuttle biked.
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grav bikes are dead. What’s your shuttle bike? 
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SHUTTLE BIKE CULTURE IS NOT FOR SALE YOU VULTURES
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now we’re getting somewhere
Did you drive that car up from the Bahamas?
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We did this once with a hiking loop that didn’t quite loop all the way (Enchantments in Washington State). We actually let the bicycle portion of the loop determine where we started so it was all downhill from the finish of the hike back to the vehicle at the starting trail head. We decided to borrow a roommate’s old shitty 90s MTB and stash in the woods a little too far so it was kinda hard to find.
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I have done that exact thing! It’s perfect because its’ a nice downhill in one direction. It would suck going the other way on the bike. I did it on an old CX bike.
A shuttle bike should have a squishy saddle and nice big rubber nubs on the hoods or on top of the flat bars. That way you can strap it upside down to the roof of your car with boat straps or whatever, no rack required. Other than that, I’d say light/nice pedaling is the chief requirement, so that riding between trailheads isn’t a big chore.
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Also maybe wide platform pedals that can accommodate a hiking boot.
Can’t remember if my buddy rode the shuttle bike with boots or the sandals he brought for walking around camp after the hike was completed.
Makes me want to go do the Enchantments hike here in WA just because you can hike it so that there’s a nice 2,000’ descent from one trailhead to the other. And also the last time I did that hike with friends my car was the shuttle and I forgot my keys in the other vehicle.
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Even better than a shuttlebike is just generally looking like a nice nonthreatening person so that you can hitchhike back to the other TH.
Sup and I got a ride in the back of a pickup on the Grand Canyon south rim from a nice couple on vacation. A+ would shuttlehitch again.
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The nice thing about doing it in the clockwise direction is that the big descent faces an exposed colchuck lake basin whereas going the other direction the whole descent is thick trees with no notable view.
However, scenic descents lead to distraction and tripping down steep traverses
or turning a corner into one of these guys:
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Are those the famous goats that want you to pee in their mouths?
@jimmythefly ain’t no one getting into anyone’s car in 2020
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I’ve gotten a ride in a pickup bed up a very steep road leading to a black sand beach on Maui or Big Island but that type of thing is common over there
Yes.
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What??
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They want the salt in your whizz. You’re also supposed to pee on rocks or other impermeable surfaces instead of plants because the goats will tear shit up to get at your salt. At least they can lick the rocks.
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They’ll drink your piss as the rivulets run across the rock and basically ignore the fact that you’re standing right next to them with your dick in your hand.
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