“Bike riders.”
It would be really hard to get to the top of Everest on a bike.
“It would be really hard to get to the top of Everest on a bike.”
BUT...if they could, they’ed be riding 3 abreast and blocking a lane. :-)
(Note: Former “respectful” bike-rider that gave it up after getting whacked in the back with a half full drink bottle, thrown from a passing car.)
There was a guy, Fred A. Birchmore, in 1935 that climbed the Matterhorn bare handed because he was curious to see the top, but had no idea that it had only been climbed once with the best climbing gear of the time.
The guy discovered a wristwatch at the top, and took it with him. When he got to a local gusthaus, he showed the watch, told the keeper were he had found it. No one believed him, but when contacted the owner who was as the first guy to climb the mountain ...
The guy then went on with his one speed bicycle (Bucephalus) around the world - when he was in Egypt some one stole a petal nevertheless he kept going - even over the Himalayas.
Around the World on a Bicycle
by Fred A. Birchmore
But if they did, they would joyride all the way down and not give a flying f--- about what might be in the way. My sister lives in the Colorado mountains up a twisty road with many blind turns and once the weather is nice you can be sure a flock of idiots would be sailing down the road in their speedos totally oblivious to the hazards they were causing to oncoming traffic. And that was before they legalized pot! It must be a nightmare now.