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Cyclist-sailor chutes the breeze on backroads

A man pedals-sails his home-made wind-powered tricycle near Airway Heights. (Rich Landers)
A man pedals-sails his home-made wind-powered tricycle near Airway Heights. (Rich Landers)

CYCLING -- He caught my attention Sunday and I stopped on a backroad to photograph the test drive of his home-made tricycle with a sail.

The breeze was right and he was getting a good ride, contently rolling along the flat gravel road without pedaling.

He said his name was Ron from Airway Heights and that he built the contraption himself.

Then he was gone with the wind.



Rich Landers
Rich Landers joined The Spokesman-Review in 1977. He is the Outdoors editor for the Sports Department writing and photographing stories about hiking, hunting, fishing, boating, conservation, nature and wildlife and related topics.

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