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Would you patronize a pedal-powered pub crawling vehicle in downtown Lawrence?
Asked at Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Blvd. on May 11, 2010
“I think that would be a lot of fun to use, to travel between bars downtown.”
“Yes, I would because I think it’s fun and convenient.”
“Yes, I think it’s a good idea, it’s fun and would probably make a lot of money.”
“No, depending on how much it cost, I think it’s better just to go by yourself.”
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Comments
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
no . .ossifer, i'm the degisnated drinker.
AreUNorml 3 years, 1 month ago
hey! I'm fat and I just used the parking garage last weekend. even parked on the top floor and used the stairs. There were two very nice men at the top smoking a fat joint and making a wonderful aroma all over the stairwell. it was a nice day.
TopJayhawk 3 years, 1 month ago
Can't you get busted for pedeling under the influence?
Jay_lo 3 years, 1 month ago
Why when I was young we didn't have no such thing as pedal power. I crawled out of many a pubs on my own, uphill both ways!!
Calliope877 3 years, 1 month ago
Why when I was young we had to walk 10 miles in the snow to get drunk....
ozzynbn 3 years, 1 month ago
Gammons was a good club. Used to go there a-long-time-ago.
Pywacket 3 years, 1 month ago
Haha--Gammons! Good times, good times.
I walked home from the Yacht Club once when the friend who drove went outside to do some coke with a couple of guys she had just met and never came back.... Coke was something I had no interest in using. Nor was I eager to accept a ride from strangers. It was a long, cold walk home, though... Could've used a pedi-cab.
Same friend peed in the parking lot at Gammons another time as she was already drunk when we got there and didn't think she could hold it until we got inside. Going out with that girl was an adventure.
AreUNorml 3 years, 1 month ago
Horus..now that dude has an interesting life. it's like Jesus, but much earlier.
lastcall4oh 3 years, 1 month ago
Also on Alan Parsons Project album, "Eye in the Sky"
misterlee 3 years, 1 month ago
I don't drink downtown very often. When I do, I don't go to another bar. I go home.
AreUNorml 3 years, 1 month ago
this comment sponsored by Dos XX. Stay thirsty my friend.
puddleglum 3 years, 1 month ago
good one, NORML! that was hilarious
januarygirl 3 years, 1 month ago
NOT A GOOD IDEA AT ALL!!!!!!! THERE IS ENOUGH OF A PROBLEM WITH BIKES. I HAVE SEEN SO MANY PARKED CARS IN DOWN TOWN LAWRENCE BACKING OUT OF PARKING SPOTS AND THE BIKER NOT EVEN WATCHING FOR THIS AND A ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN. I DON'T THINK BIKES OF ANY KIND SHOULD BE PERMITTED ON THE BLOCKS BETWEEN 6TH AND MASS. AND 11TH ST. AND MASS. PARKED C ARS ON BOTH SIDES OF STREET IN THE DOWNTOWN PART OF MASS. IS SO DANGEROUS FOR THE BIKES. I HAD A GUY ON A SKATE BOARD IN FRONT OF ME LAST WEEK IN THE MIDDLE OF MASS. BETWEEN 8TH AND 9TH ST. AND DIDN'T CARE. WASN'T PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE CAR BACKING OUT OF PARKING. THE DRIVER OF THE CAR SAW HIM JUST IN TIME TO AVOID AN ACCIDENT . THE SKATEBOARDER WAS NOT IN THE DRIVERS LINE OF VISION. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE BEFORE SOMEONE GETS KILLED, AND ITS NOT ALWAYS THE DRIVER OF THE CARS FAULT.
Kontum1972 3 years, 1 month ago
aye' ya
Kontum1972 3 years, 1 month ago
Ole' Ashley......Aye carumba chula...!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
Hell no. Motorized bar stools, now that's a whole other plaid zebra.
Jay_lo 3 years, 1 month ago
Apologies to Roger Miller
Sitting on a pedi-bar with the rest of the guys, six blocks pedaled and I pedaled five! Dang me, dang me the motorists on Mass. want to hang me...
BigPrune 3 years, 1 month ago
The people that say they support this idea, will most likely not ride it. It's kind of like the people who want a vegetarian restaurant in town that they'll never visit, or a grocery store in north Lawrence that never got any business, or even Drake's downtown - they brought it back and nobody went there.
dogsandcats 3 years, 1 month ago
Worst idea ever.
dajudge 3 years, 1 month ago
A little bird told me it would not be a good idea.
Pywacket 3 years, 1 month ago
Want to watch a drunk attempt to ride a Segway? Hey--there goes one, now!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv-JcUyNgEs
BigPrune 3 years, 1 month ago
I called the cops on you one day a few years ago. Of course, trying to explain it to dispatch was a little different. That thing is dangerous. Driving it on Wakarusa is stupid dude. Nice fro BTW. Is that a wig?
BigPrune 3 years, 1 month ago
I called the cops on you one day a few years ago. Of course, trying to explain it to dispatch was a little different. That thing is dangerous. Driving it on Wakarusa is stupid dude. Nice fro BTW. Is that a wig?
puddleglum 3 years, 1 month ago
still waiting for a new dragstrip out west here....then downtown can do whatever they want.
50YearResident 3 years, 1 month ago
Sure, and bring in a camel and an elephant for people to ride that don't want to peddle. But I don't know what to do with the rest of the circus!
CWGOKU 3 years, 1 month ago
No, especially if I have to do my own peddling. Why not rickshaws as well? Six blocks is too short a distance for all the hassel. Just take a nice stroll and enjoy it. Maybe Spacehog could give piggyback rides.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
They should close off downtown a few other streets and set up a kickass Grand Prix course for motorized barstools.
I remember the Grand Prix course they had in Des Moines. Best course around! I can smell the fuel and hear those turbos whine, as the rubber grabs and gives up the pavement around a corner.
I am Psyched!!! Let's form a steering committee and get the focus groups fired up.
This has to happen. The only thing better would be if Grand Prix was not of little pancake eater origin, but hell, those cheese eating surrender monkeys gave us the bikini, the raincoat, the coffee percolator, and the Grand Prix, racing how it should be, not this Deliverance inspired bum rush NASCAR crap.
bearded_gnome 3 years, 1 month ago
what? no all-knowing wisdom from merrill? no cut-and-pasties?
just briefly: merrill promotes nude biking. so, he should be incharge of making the pedicab into a "nude biking experience.
might improve its popularity!
or ... not.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
space, Craig treat you right?
somedude20 3 years, 1 month ago
LJW has been promoting this dude and the other dude who bikes people around (forgot his name but it is a buck a block) a hell of a lot in the last few weeks. Makes me wonder if these dudes have a connection to the LWJ. Anyway, I believe that the "bar bike" costs around a $120 an hour to rent plus the customer does the bulk of the work. Does not sound like fun for me
AreUNorml 3 years, 1 month ago
knowing Shane (the other dude), he isn't in the least affiliated with LJW. no idea on this feller.
BigPrune 3 years, 1 month ago
Doesn't the LJW have an affiliation with Geeks on Wheels? I think that answers that.
flux 3 years, 1 month ago
Space Hog just broke the record for the most comments on one thread and for the most comments no one actually read.
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Awwwww . . .spacehog has a new fan...
bearded_gnome 3 years, 1 month ago
spacehog (anonymous) says…
LOL, bearded_gnome! I think I saw him the other day. He was riding a beach cruiser with no seat. He had a big smile on his face.
---big smile, well, okay then!
motorized barstool? must the participants in the race be predrunk to enter?
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
I would not ride it, To a bar. I would not ride it, Very far.
I would not ride it, Down the street, Nor pedal it. With my two feet.
But I would call up, All of my buds, To watch you pedal, And drink your suds.
We wouldn't want, To miss the crash, When that big SUV Runs over your A$$.
~RoeDapple~
flux 3 years, 1 month ago
RoeDapple comment # 4961 Most comments of all time nobody has read
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Wrongo, flux! (I go back and read them all the time!)
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
flux, Sorry bout you getting jumped.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
space, Shame on me?
Flux's words " I got jumped by 5 guys my senior year and it took its toll on me mentally"
ozzynbn 3 years, 1 month ago
I know many of you on here are Dyan fans, but I'll take a Croce song over a mumbling Dylan song any day.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
RIP Erica Blasberg
somedude20 3 years, 1 month ago
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RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Hey space hell yeah! Dylan definitely near top of the list, but lean a little more toward Jim Croce myself. Having a brother who is an entertainer/musician makes me a little leery of them all. My problem though, not necessarily theirs. The dog needs a rest though, how's this?
Back in my drinkin' an' carousin' days I got jumped by three guys. Trouble was I was sober and they weren't. Took them a while to get over it.
(Too damn brittle anymore for that though!)
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
And I did get severely trounced by one guy once. Felt like he had six fists and four feet all wailing on me at the same time. That's when I figured out I'm not a fighter
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
space, http://snsimages.tribune.com/media/photo/2010-05/316317060-10170305.jpg Tell me you seriously think Horne could handle a putter like that...
You probably support Elena Kagan because she was she was OK on "King of Queens". A bit low-brow, but still funny.
oneeye_wilbur 3 years, 1 month ago
I support this if it would be pedaled up to the Salvation Army canteen at the Drop In Center. What a way to have a buffet on wheels.
multi, i can provide the monkey and the man.
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Wow, 5 comments deleted so far on an OTS column? Zombie apocalypse must be coming sooner than expected!
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
RoeD, It's that zombie satellite Galaxy15's fault.
somedude20 3 years, 1 month ago
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RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Wow, every time I come back another one has bit the dust! You may have something there R_I. Heading for the bunker asap
oneeye_wilbur 3 years, 1 month ago
If this is approved and since the rickshaw was approved, I am considering mo ped rentals downtown, just like in Key West. Now there is some money to be made. A moped pub crawl.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
Kagan wrote the Clinton gun ban. Rahm Emanuel stated, “We’re bending the law as far as we can to ban an entirely new class of guns.”
snap_pop_no_crackle 3 years, 1 month ago
R_I, I didn't know that. I'd heard that the Clinton people sat around with a gun magazine and picked out the features they considered to be scary and used that list to write the law. What a pack of salad-eaters!
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
Funny how the anti-gun party is responsible for the years of highest sales of guns. On the not funny side, they get prices skyrocketing in the process.
RoeDapple 3 years, 1 month ago
back to the bunker ;-)
snap_pop_no_crackle 3 years, 1 month ago
I'm stocking up on pointy sticks, just in case.
RETICENT_IRREVERENT 3 years, 1 month ago
snap, I bought some .31 lead ball for my beanshooter.
bearded_gnome 3 years, 1 month ago
Roe, that was great work sir! very LOL.
maybe we should totally rewrite green eggs and ham for the pedicab.
yes, this thread was originally some derned question about the pedicab thingy.
I'm wondering about the "training" for the driver, I mean do they use a high-tech simulator with simulated drunks vomiting and throwing things and speaking offensive words? programming, programming!
wth happened to mr. flux. did he get his psych meds from that nigerian pharmacy again?
and amazing how many posts got swept out a this thread!
Jay_lo 3 years, 1 month ago
spacehog (anonymous) says… Okay, let's back up. I've been following this thing, but someone explain it to me. Are we talking about 16 different pedicabs, a "bicycle built for 16", or one guy pedaling 16 people
This might help: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LWc3a...
bearded_gnome 3 years, 1 month ago
German Office Chair Race by diagonaluk
office chair race. preparation for the pedicab?
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