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Food For Thought

Hi all,

We wager you think we travelled afar to find this out of the way restaurant! Well you would be wrong we found it by chance on a little country lane just outside Conway in North Wales UK. The restaurant was closed at the time so we unable to sample the food but the interior looked very authentic and so did the menu.

Gail & Mervyn.

Update 6/14/09:
This is not a SPAM. Just Sharing SkiBike related items that wont be available later.

The Kits Have Arrived And Are Available $425-USD

Includes shipping in US and to Canada. Worldwide shipping for $455-USD

Very Limited Number Available!!!

SkiBikeFun
http://www.skibikefun.com/SMX001.htm

EBay
http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Hanson-Bikes-Winter-X-Bike-Conversion-Kits_W0QQitemZ230349098128QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a1e04c90&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A12%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C72%3A570%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50


SkiBikeFun.com

Hey all- I'm sure you are all in full force summer but had to let you all in on something cool.

I was able to get 16 "NEW" ...yes I said "NEW"...Winter X Bike kits with skis. I have them coming into the US in the next week. Will get them up on the site as soon as I have them. The original "Turn any bike..into a skibike" product.

If you were ever thinking about getting an actual Winter X Bike Kit...don't drag your feet. This was a once in a life time find and these are most likely the last you will ever find unless the come back into production.
We even still have a few 20mm conversion lugs available.

Take care, will update the site once they arrive!!!

Randy

SkiBikeFun.com

How Cool Is This Guy!

http://www.one-revolution.com/

Tony Marsh (1931-2009)

It is with great sadness we learned that after a short and sudden illness Tony Marsh passed away on the 7th May 2009.
Tony was not only a well known figure on the motor racing circuit for many years, he was also an accomplished skibiker and a true ambassador for our sport, he raced the European skibike circuit throughout the 70's & 80's flying the UK flag as a member of the the SAGB.
Tony's funeral will be held in Chichester on the 27th May 2009.
Our thoughts & best wishes go out to his family.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Marsh_(racing_driver)
Gail & Mervyn.

My Kinda Rush Hour

I'd love to be in this kind of rush hour now!!!!!!

I miss winter already!!

Randy
SkiBikeFun.com

What do we do in the summer months?

Very similar to you actually - dream a lot (winter sports of course), plan a lot, we’ve actually booked our skibiking holiday for next year. We would love to be able to spend more time on the slopes in the winter months but the cost these days in the EU are getting so ridiculous. This season's 2 week break in the Alps cost us around 3,500 GBP all in, that said, we loved every minute and do not regret a penny of it.
So in the summer we cut back on costs. We have a caravan with awning (trailer with porch we think you guys call it) and spend most summer weekends there. It’s situated on a small family run camp site 2 miles from York and the river that flows through York is 200 yards from our caravan door. We cycle the country paths but not the rough tracks anymore - Gail came off her bike one day and spent the next 15 months with various casts on the leg, it was so bad she did well to return to skibiking - that’s why we applaud the work BLESMA does. I fish and I actually sold my old fly rod on EBay yesterday. I’ve found a weir pool a few miles up the river on the other side of York where the barbel have started to congregate, now that we are finally getting river pollution under control in this country. I’m going to take Brian the Boarder up there when the closed season finishes to try our luck.
The photo shows the bottom of the Reiterkogel lift in Hinterglemm which is open to mountain bikers throughout the summer months, you will notice the various jumps etc. that have been added for the more adventurous bikers.
Gail & Mervyn.

What do you all do between the snow???

Just coming back around after my first round of depression after my last day on the snow at Hoodoo in Oregon SkiBiking.

Made me wonder what the rest of you do to get through the summer until the snow falls again.

I get into hiking, backpacking and DH (Down Hill) Mountain Biking. Closest thing to SkiBiking in the summer. The dirt is not as forgiving as the snow but still worth the effort. All that compiled with some camping and flyfishing and 8 months will wip by just like that. NOT!!!!!!

Take care...

Hello, my name is Randy...and I'm a SkiBike Junky!!

The Edge

Hello,
Looking for some winter sports reading matter? then check out the:
Ski Club of Great Britain news letter
It is not skibike orientated but there is some interesting stuff in there.
Mervyn.

Snowbiker.Net

Hi Gail and Mervyn,

Love your website. Lots of information and links. I truely enjoyed the Picture Gallery. Beautiful mountain scenes! Are those pictures of you two in the Hinterglemm photos? Just curious. I too am a snowbiker. I use sleddog boots instead of footskis. I love the combination of sleddogs and the Koski full suspension snowbike. It's a very comfortable ride with lots of control. Anyway.... just wanted to say hi.

Have a Great Ride!

Jeff Butcher

snowbiker

Snowbiker.net

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Hello Jeff,
Many thanks we are glad you like our website and yes we do feature in some of the photos, we are the ones on the old Brenter Downhills Gail's the one with the red hair and I'm the one with the grey hair (too much Mogul bashing I think!) Our team usually consists of Gail and myself, Gail's sister Lynn (Keeda Superstar R), Gail's brother "Brian the Boarder" (we are working on him!) and his partner Sharon (who also rides an old Brenter Downhill). We like your website also snowbiker.net and have included it in our Links Page.
Happy Biking.
Gail & Mervyn.

Looking for something a little different?

Then way not try:
Skiing in Dubai
Makes a change from sitting by the pool.

Cheap Deals

The snow in Europe is still very good so if you are looking for that last minute affordable skiing deal then check out http://www.skiingonashoestring.com

Cool Idea

Hey! start em young thats what we say?

Still Nervous About Winter Sports?

Then Sharon Shinwell's confident rider series may be what you are looking for!
www.confident-rider.co.uk
M.

YouTube Bits

Want some skibike video fun then go to YouTube Bits on the right.

What Is It Called?

Hi Randy,
After a fair bit of surfing the net our answer to your question is! We we do not know, but we have found a Google page with various images of such devices so may be this will be of some help to you.

http://images.google.co.uk/images?

Regards Gail & Mervyn.

Newest Edition of SkiBike Alley Comic Strip

Come see the newest comic in SkiBike Alley, the only SkiBike Comic Strip in the world only at SkiBikeFun.com!!

http://www.skibikefun.com/SBAMAIN.htm

Updated weekly on Tuesday or Wednesday. Might need to hit an "F5" to update the page on your PC. Current comic in the window, last weeks below it.

Enjoy.

Peace-Love-SkiBikes

Randy

Slope Rescue Card

What a good idea!
All ski insurance covers you for personal injury & third party liability but usually does not cover the cost of actually getting you off the mountain at the time of injury, its more likely to have to stand that cost out of your own pocket/credit card and then claim it back from your insurance company at a later date.
The ski resort of Sölden offers a solution to the problem as shown below (information taken directly from the Sölden website):
As we read it you pay an extra 10 Euros when you buy your lift pass and you are covered.
Gail & Mervyn.

The "Sölden Slope Rescue Card" is available at the ski area's ticket offices and only in conjunction with a valid ski pass. The Rescue Card does not have to be bought together with the ski pass, but it must have been purchased before the insured event occurred. The Mountain Rescue Card's validity expires on the same day as your ski pass and cannot be prolonged.


Sölden Slope Rescue Card per person and ski pass € 10,00


The Slope Rescue Card includes the following:
Rescue service is free for injured persons within the entire Sölden Ski Area (Gaislachkogl, Giggijoch/Hochsölden and the Glacier Ski Area). Depending on the gravity of the injury, the rescue card includes transport by ski lift, Akja sleds, ambulance or the Sölden Rescue Helicopter (Alpin 2) to the nearest doctor in Sölden or if necessary to the next hospital.


Tip:
Should your insurance not cover mountain rescue services and you do not have any complimentary insurance (e.g. credit card insurance or accident cover offered by automobile associations, etc.) we strongly recommend you to purchase the Sölden Slope Rescue Card in order to avoid paying the cost of rescue services:

Rescue service from zone 1
(Gaislachkogl-mid-station, Giggijoch-station, top-to-bottom runs) € 100,-
Rescue service from zone 2
(Heidebahn, Gampe, Golden Gate) € 150,-
Rescue service from zone 3
(Glacier Ski Area) € 250,-


2. Sölden Rescue Helicopter (Alpin 2) transport to the valley and ambulance service to nearest doctor in Sölden:
all zones € 1.360,

Welcome Randy

Hello & welcome to Randy,
Randy (owner and founder of Skibikefun.com) contacted us with a view to contributing to the "Skibikers News Blog". We were delighted to take him up on his offer, and it is brilliant to see how he is promoting adaptive skibiking and we are sure we will be hearing from him in the coming months.
Many thanks Randy.

For information on adaptive skibiking in the UK, Henry Wuga can be contacted through the SAGB website.
Gail & Mervyn.

SkiBikes at Sante Fe Ski Basin-Sante Fe New Mexico

We were set up to do a 2 hour class at Sante fe Ski Basin in Sante fe, New Mexico on Sunday 3/1/09. I was not sure how the day was going to go when the first 3 staff people we saw in the parking lot tried to chase us away. Then to have the owner come out and almost shut us down, really made it kind of a bummer start. Melanie and Katya was able to smooth things over and ensure we were on our game for safety and lesson plans and got us what we needed to make it all happen. We donated 2 new Sledgehammer bikes to their adaptive program.

It was suppose to be a 2 hour lesson with 5 people from the adaptive school. It turned out to be an all day event with about 3 dozen instructors from the adaptive school! I can't even begin to drive home the devious grins and smiles we put on faces on Sunday. We, yet again ,had grown people giggling and grinning like school kids. We were also told that at the end of the day the clubhouse was full of those adaptive instructors still laughing from a good time on the bikes.

The energy from the adaptive instructors was incredible. They were excited to not only see and test the equipment but you could see the gears in their heads turning as they began to see the possibilities SkiBikes could offer in their adaptive schools and programs. They had tons of adaptive scenarios and questions for us. We had to remind them, we don't demo to anyone but the able bodied and we needed them to answer those same questions and develop answers for us!! You could see the excitement and engagement begin!!!

For those of you that know me, I don't wear footskis since I shed them years ago. While I was not excited about putting them back on for the lesson/demo, (Sante Fe requires them) see the picture above and know that I took one for the sport to get the equipment on the hill of Sante Fe Ski Basin. I have not had footskis on in about 4+ years and let me tell you, took me a while to find myself over them once again. Sante Fe, I'd do it again for you any day!!

A very very big thank you to the men and women at the Sante Fe Ski Basin Adaptive school and the owners/managers of the area for letting us come play on the hill and give their instructors some new tools for their adaptive toolbox!!

It was our pleasure spending the day with you all!! Please invite us up again. We hope to continue to change a few more minds on bikes.

Peace-Love-and SkiBikes

Randy
SkiBikeFun.com

Ski Tuning

Hi Randy,
Many thanks for the advice on ski tuning, I found a lot of interesting info in your article.
Randy's article can be found at www.ski-bike.org/sb-mag/Technical.htm.
Regards Mervyn.

Re: Bums on Bikes

Gail & Mervyn,

we hear you on all fronts!! We have been working with manufacturers for many years asking for a very low end (low price, entry level) bike that is well built for that purpose. As we have started to dig in and understand what it takes to do a manufacturing run, its very easy to loose site of the low end price.

With that said, we are always shipping in bikes from around the world, testing them out and offering what we feel are the best available on the market for the best value.

We also have the issue of our skibike manufacturers getting bought out and going out of business often these days. So often we have to deal with whats available on the market, regardless of how much we like or dislike the product.

With all that said, have continued to see growth in the market every season ans even in 2008 during our worst economic condition yet, we held our same sales from the previous season. Bikes are catching on in a big way expecially with baby boomers wanting to stay on the hill with their familys and friends.

Peace, love and Skibikes,

Randy
www.SkiBikefun.com



Posted by Randy to Skibikers News at February 25, 2009 5:53:00 PM GMT

ARMANI launches EA7 Snowbike

MPORIO ARMANI Winter 2009-2010:
.... in a world of white snow, EA7, the specialist line for sports enthusiasts, launches its SNOWBIKE, all black with silvered logos. This is a machine for a sport more closely related to motocross than to snowboarding, to be pursued in black and red techno T-shirts with protective padding on the elbows and shoulders,....

Hm! we wonder if they could manage two in the Porche Carrera 911 livery. Actually Porche did produce a skibike many years ago, it all folded into its-self and looked rather like a suitcase when it was ready for transportation. I rode the one Nick had, it was by no means as good as the car I can tell you, Nick was the resident DJ of the "Farm Club" in Verbier in those days which was "the" place to be seen if you could afford it, and boasted clientel such as paddy Mcnally of Formula1 racing fame & lady Sarah Ferguson (Fergie). Fortunately for us they had a Happy Hour at knock down prices.
Mervyn.

Ski Edges

Talking of good snow conditions, we decided to take full advantage of the brilliant snow this year by having our skibike edges re-edged/tuned by the local ski shop until we saw the price they were asking for this service that is! 22 Euros, "yes you read that right" 22 Euros was the asking price - which is 22GBP or 28.22 USD to you and me! We know the ski shops do an excellent job and they are quick too but we feel that this price is a touch too much as we say over here, actually we say it's daylight robbery but there you go. So out came the trusty old hand propelled edger and an hour or so later the job was done, 4 skibikes with edges you could use as a razor. We did have to purchase a new blade for the tool though, it cost 12.5 Euros but it will last us a good few years with careful use. The point to remember when using such a tool is: if you take too much off you cannot put it back on again so slow and easy does it.
M.

Zardoz

You are probably wondering why we have not posted an update on our use of this product, well the simple answer to that is we did not need to use it. The snow conditions this year were superb, we had clear blue skies for the most part of the two weeks that we spent in Hinterglemm and with daytime temperatures varying between -8C and zero coupled with overnight temperatures of around -10C things could not have been better. We actually needed to find a way of slowing the skibikes down a touch, nails through the back of the skis did cross our minds at some point. Yes we know you are supposed to kill speed by throwing some turns in but when you are enjoying it that much you tend to forget until things start to get sort of hairy yeh!
M.

New kids on the Piste

Skibiking is a relatively minor sport when compared to skiing and snowboarding, so it's rare to see another skibiker on the same piste as yourself, and to find 3 of them, all with British riders onboard came as a bit of a suprise to us, but a welcome one though. The three lads in question all hail from Nottinghamshire, they are Sam,Dave and Rob and they were riding new Stalmach skibikes which they had hired from Jacek down in Saalfelden a town which is about 30/40 minutes down the valley from Saalbach/Hinterglemm. It is where he has his production company based and we have to say the skibikes looked rather good. We did not have the opportunety to ride one but we imagine they ride as good as they look! It would appear that if you hire skibikes from Stalmach they will for a fee, have them delivered to the resort for you, we are unsure if this just applies to the Saalbach/Hinterglemm region or all of Austria. It must be a consideration though if you prefer skibiking but without the hassle of transporting them to the resort from the UK.
G&M

Skibike Adaptive

Hi All,
Its good to see that not only does the Saalbach/Hinterglemm region of Austria allow the use of skibikes, it also supports and encourages the Skibike Adaptive element of skibiking, this particular machine can be found in one of the local hire shops. We believe it is both for sale and rent.
Gail & Mervyn.

High Altitude

Hi all,
Are any of you Brits watching former British Downhill Racer Graham Bell in his new adventure TV series called High Altitude? It all looks rather risky to me, 'better stick to racing Graham it's not as dangerous.' The show is currently showing on BBC2, Sunday night at 10:00pm approximately. Here's Gail giving Graham some advice on how it's done (ha ha), he is the one on the right.
PS: this is for Brian the Boarder. Graham is co-hosting the show with Ed Leigh a professional snowboarder. Ed started his snowboarding career working in a Chalford based snowboard shop, Noahs Ark. After spending five years snowboarding in the resort of Val d'Isere a knee injury forced him to take a season off and he was offered a job as teaboy at White Lines snowboarding magazine.
Mervyn.

Indian Rope Trick

Hi Skibikers,
If you read the Hints & Tips page of our website you will have seen an article entitled "The Indian Rope Trick. "The article describes a more comfortable and safer way of negotiating a Tee Bar on a skibike, rather than the more traditional way of having the Tee Bar's pick behind your posteria, and being dragged to the top of the hill standing up. The technique we recommended requires the use of a metre or so of light weight rope, the sort you would hang your clothes on to dry, we call it clothes line in the UK.
OK so you think that Tee Bar's are outdated and obselete, and you will never use one, well maybe they are, we are not great fans of them either, but for those short 500 metre or so links to the next major linking run they are ideal and they will probably never be replaced by the lift companies until absolutely neccessary. There are now very few such lifts in Hinterglemm but one of them is essential if you wish to do the complete ski ciruit. The technique for "The Indian Rope Trick" is a simple one but we have never managed to capture it in use, this year however Brian the Boarder did just that.
Many thanks Brian.

Pound v Euro

So how was our recent trip to the Alps you ask? Absolutely fabulous but very expensive is the honest answer. The recent world financial crisis has not taken long to bite into the tourist market and bite hard it has indeed. This time last year UK residents could expect to get approx. 1.5 euros per English pound, not so this year, more like 1 euro per English pound and couple this to the fact the resort was fairly quiet has caused a general increase in prices within the resort. Hiking up the prices to compensate for poor visitor statistics never works but they all try it anyway, we remember Verbier (Switzerland) virtually pricing itself out of the UK ski brochures many years ago. So if you are hitting the slopes of Europe soon then be prepared, if you were planning on £800 spending money then take £1,200 because that is what you will need.
Gail & Mervyn.

E-ticket

Hi All,
The computers have finally taken over what used to be a pleasure ie: the day your travel agent contacts you to advise your holiday tickes have arrived and are ready for you to collect. We're not sure if this is just new to the UK or a worldwide trend, but now it appears we get an E-ticket for our journey which is only an A4 piece of paper to confirm your details to the staff at the airport and your holiday hotel. This is fine by us as we do not wish to cut down trees for the sake of it, (except the ones which get in our way on the piste that is). So to the point, Gail's sister Lynn came for the second week of our 2 week vacation, brave girl considering she had all her own luggage to carry plus a Keeda Superstar R skibike as well, and I must add you do not get many knights in shining armour at Manchester Airport at 05.30 in the morning to help you check in. But all went well until the evening we were all packing to come home, then it happened, a knock on our hotel room door, it was Lynn in tears. She had packed and unpacked her bags 3 times but could not find her E-ticket anywhere. Gail phoned the tour rep who calmly advised us not to worry as all her details were in the computer and she did not need the piece of paper, but Gail was not convinced and eventually tracked down the missing document to the hotel reception who had filed it rather than give it back Lynn. They wanted to keep it but Gail insisted they make a copy and return the original to Lynn; it's as well she did because the staff at Salzberg Airport did want to see proof of our reservations on the flight as well as proof of our identities.
So much for E-tickets Eh! be aware.
I did on our return to the UK text the Inghams tour representative to advise him of the situation and yes you've got it, he did not respond.
Mervyn.

1/4 of an inch

We were so close to the unimaginable we could feel the tension in the air, yes Brian the Boarder was going to give his beloved snowboard Gerald a day off and risk life and limb on a skibike. Flo from the Hotel "Alpine Palace Wolf" had kindly loaned us his Brenter skibikes for the day and Brian had decided to bite the bullet and give one a try (if only to say it was not for him yeh!) So off we went, collected the bikes and set about adjusting the foot skis to our boot size, that's when it all went pear shaped. Try as we would we could not adjust the Brenter foot skis to fit Brian's UK ski boot size 12 - we were short by 1/4 of an inch. We thought about chopping his toes off by the required amount but he rebelled at that so it's back to the drawing board. Hmm, I happen to have an old pair skis in the loft that can be cut down to size 12 boots so watch this space next year.
If you want to tell Brian what he missed, contact him at:
briantheboarder@gmail.com
M.

Hinterglemm 2009

Hi all,
We have just had a super 2 weeks bashing the pistes of Saalbach/Hinterglemm, we will post details of our adventure here soon.
G&M.

Boozehound Mk2

Looking to make use of that old cycle in the back of your garage, then check out this cool DIY project.
Not sure about the saddle, but you must agree the skibike does look rather good.

For more info check out:

http://boozhoundlabs.com/skibikemkii/

Regards Mervyn.

Zardoz Base Coat

Can you remember the good old days when men were men and the ski wax came in a pack containing 4 solid blocks of wax? Each had a different colour for use in varying snow conditions, and you stuck your pecker in the snow to determine which one to use. Well that's how we used to do it in Yorkshire anyway! Only joking, actually we've still got some of that wax, problem was it took an age to rub the stuff into the soles of your skis, and you developed arms like Popeye in the process, only to find at the end of your first run it had all gone. God knows how a snowboarder would cope with that, probably spend happy hour in the bar then 2 very "unhappy" hours in the boot room plastering the stuff back on. Things move on though and last year we tried some wax in a pad and Brian the Boarder tried some spray on wax which was a touch more costly but easier to apply, both appeared to work OK but it still did not stay on too long. So this year we are trying this stuff (Zardoz Base Coat), it's not wax at all, it's pure Teflon and is supposed to stay on for up to 2 days depending on the snow conditions, and you can if you wish use it over or under a normal coat of wax.
G&M

Talk Ski

Here's an unusual story we found posted on Talk Ski.
http://www.gowesting.com/blog/blog/the-saga-of-liko-and-bode.html
We're not sure how true it is though.

Jet Republic

Now here's a rather interesting if expensive and unorthodox way of getting to the slopes in quick time:

The Jet Republic Ski Card - Ski Faster
Spend more time on the slopes this winter with the freedom of a Jet Republic Ski Card. Fly direct to your favourite resort from over a 1,000 airports in Europe. Fly hassle free without any delays, transfers or queues.
Enjoy the flexibility and freedom of the Jet Republic Ski Card starting at only €910 per person per hour. With over $1.5 billion worth of aircraft and world class service Jet Republic provides the ultimate flexibility, convenience and control.

Of course at those prices we would expect the Martini's to be shaken not stirred!

http://www.jetrepublic.com/

Talk Ski

Hi Geoff,

I love your idea of "The Fireside Bar" it reminds me of the one in what used to be called the Wolf Hotel in the Austrian Alps. I can see the table close to the fire, you the skier, me the skibiker and Brian The Boarder, we're all talking one language skiing! TalkSki can be found in our Forums & groups section on this page & in the "Links" page of our website.
Cheers Geoff - ours is a Zipfer! Cool site by the way.
Regards Gail & Mervyn.

Brendan West's BLESMA Photos

Hi Brendan,
Many thanks for allowing us to show your Skibike photos in our site, it's much appreciated, the first part can be viewed to the right of the page, we plan to show each part for a week or so then move to the next if that's OK with you. If you wish to claim your Goatstall cap then please email us a contact address.
For those who would like more info on the work done by BLESMA please contact us and we will pass your request to Henry Wuga and Brendan, or visit the BLESMA website.
Once again many thanks Brendan.
Regards Gail and Mervyn.

Goatstall Hinterglemm

Hi all,

Don't forget we still have some Goatstall baseball caps to give away, all we need from you is the web location of your cool photos, Flickr, Picasa etc. So if you want to be in with a chance of winning one then get those cameras clicking.

Hi all at the Goatstall see you all in 2 weeks!

Gail & Mervyn.

Camera Bag

Hello,

Have you ever had problems carrying your camera on the mountain? I know I have, unfortunately I did once put a dent in what was a very nice camera because I forgot to spin it to the front of my body before getting on a rather fast double chair lift, I had the camera strapped around my waist rather like a bum bag but positioned to my rear! However this idea courtesy of "The Sports Gear Guide" may be the solution to just such a problem, it does require an element of DIY on your part though. They call it the "Camera Backpack" The Sports Gear Guide website can also be found in our "Links" page.

Mervyn.

Giro Helmets

Hi all,
As you may well be aware, I'm not too keen on the use of ski helmets, but I do like to boogie down the mountain occasionally using my MP3 player, so if you are a like minded skier and happen to own a Giro helmet then this idea may well appeal to you.
Its an optional extra for Giro Helmets called "TuneUps", they are ear-pads with built-in speakers, they are replacement ear pads for your helmet’s original pads and can be connected to any standard MP3 or CD player.
They cost around £29 UK which seems a fair price for keeping your ears warm as well as keeping you entertained. I have to say the Giro helmets look quite cool as well.
They are available from Snowboard Ayslum
Mervyn.

Lift Attendants

Hi skibikers,
In our "About" page we mention a theory regarding the use of skibikes by lift attendants as a safety measure on the lift at the end of the day, the picture shown here may well prove our theory to be correct, these 3 skibikes have now been parked in this location for the last 2 seasons, they were probably parked round the back of the station and out of sight prior to the new lift being installed, I know the Hari well, I rode one many years ago, it was considered to be the Rolls Royce of skibikes in those days, the other two I'm unsure of do you know what make they are?
Regards Mervyn.