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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