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I'm having trouble thinking of something more Canadian than skating to work.

by rail2rail 12y ago

PeterWhittaker 12y ago
Sorry, I can't help you with that. :->
- PeterWhittaker 12y ago
  I was half expecting a downvote on that from someone who didn't get the joke, but I'm still a little disappointed.... (Hint: What's more Canadian than skating to work? Apologizing for shit. It's what we're known for. Well, that, hockey, curling, Tim's, Don Cherry, and most of the best comedians on US TV and movies over the last 30 years. Sorry 'bout that.)
ptaipale 12y ago
The Finnish variant is a Stiga Jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU (The video starts pretty slowly, and doesn't provide much info about how that was built, but it looks fun. There are also plenty of more scaled-up projects, basically looking like combining a ski-doo with a V-1 rocket). (I actually used a kicksled in the winters to go to school, until I got a moped.)
- Thlom 12y ago
  In some parts of Norway they only clear snow from half of the sidewalk so you can use kicksled on the other half.
  - ptaipale 12y ago
    That is nice. Particularly when my kids were small, I would have liked to take them to the daycare in a toboggan, but the pavements were always ruined with grit.
  - drderidder 12y ago
    What is a kicksled??? I want one already! [update] wow...found one, the kickspark! Awesome. http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php
    - ptaipale 12y ago
      That's the modern sports variant. The traditional one is better suited for transporting stuff and one or even two passengers as well: http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html In good conditions this can be amazingly fast, and two people can alternate so that one pushes the sled and the other one rests on the seat.
ahelwer 12y ago
Well, when I lived in Calgary my software developer roommate/friend and I canoed down the river to work. Felt pretty Canadian after that. Only worked one way though, paddling upstream through the deluge of meltwater proved impossible. We were also outstripped by people biking along the riverbank (our usual mode of commute) so only did it once.

I'm having trouble thinking of something more Canadian than skating to work.

PeterWhittaker 12y ago

Sorry, I can't help you with that. :->

PeterWhittaker 12y ago
I was half expecting a downvote on that from someone who didn't get the joke, but I'm still a little disappointed.... (Hint: What's more Canadian than skating to work? Apologizing for shit. It's what we're known for. Well, that, hockey, curling, Tim's, Don Cherry, and most of the best comedians on US TV and movies over the last 30 years. Sorry 'bout that.)

ptaipale 12y ago

The Finnish variant is a Stiga Jet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdiPmYSTwlU (The video starts pretty slowly, and doesn't provide much info about how that was built, but it looks fun. There are also plenty of more scaled-up projects, basically looking like combining a ski-doo with a V-1 rocket). (I actually used a kicksled in the winters to go to school, until I got a moped.)

Thlom 12y ago
In some parts of Norway they only clear snow from half of the sidewalk so you can use kicksled on the other half.
- ptaipale 12y ago
  That is nice. Particularly when my kids were small, I would have liked to take them to the daycare in a toboggan, but the pavements were always ruined with grit.
- drderidder 12y ago
  What is a kicksled??? I want one already! [update] wow...found one, the kickspark! Awesome. http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php http://www.goslide.ca/en/shop/kickspark.php
  - ptaipale 12y ago
    That's the modern sports variant. The traditional one is better suited for transporting stuff and one or even two passengers as well: http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html http://www.esla.fi/fin/potkukelkka.html In good conditions this can be amazingly fast, and two people can alternate so that one pushes the sled and the other one rests on the seat.

ahelwer 12y ago

Well, when I lived in Calgary my software developer roommate/friend and I canoed down the river to work. Felt pretty Canadian after that. Only worked one way though, paddling upstream through the deluge of meltwater proved impossible. We were also outstripped by people biking along the riverbank (our usual mode of commute) so only did it once.