At 2:28 AM 8/7/98, Larry Carter wrote: >Another thing was on my mind while I was at the bike store; I had read, >that day on the Windsurfing news group, that generation Xers couldn't >afford windsurfing because the first accessory required was a car. That >was someone's reason why windsurfing was losing popularity, and hadn't been >embraced by new generations. In another age, enterprising young surferdudes used to TOW their boards behind their bikes to get to the parts of the beach where the waves were running. Southern California beaches always suffered from lack of parking and the biking subset of the surfers never seemed to have enough time to make enough money to buy a cool surfin' ride... Early windsurfing was actually done in the parking lots with a sail mounted to the bike!
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