MTB Onstar

[TrailPatrol]

Here's an amusing story that just goes to show that it pays to be prepared:

For the past few days I have been attending IPMBA* Police Cyclist training as part of my job as a state park ranger. Because we spent about half of the 40-hour course on bikes, I carried my NMBP hydration pack with me, along with all the things I normally would have in it: Clif Shot, Clif Bars, tire tubes, sun screen, bug spray, first aid kit, multi-tool and my new Planet Bike air pump. Every time somebody would blow a tire, need some sunscreen, need to fix a mechanical problem or some quick energy, I would pull what they needed out of my pack and give it to them. About the third time this happened, one of the cops in the class looked over at me and asked, "What are you; like an 'OnStar" for bikes?" I replied, "Something like that."

Well, the name stuck. I was "OnStar" for the rest of the course. Thanks to Kenda, WTB, Tender Corporation, Clif Shot and Bars, Coppertone and Planet Bike for providing the supplies I needed to help out some cyclists in a totally different setting.

Ride safe,
:banana:
Hans Erdman, WEMT
Chippewa Forest Trails Steward
Patrol Director
Backcountry Trail Patrol- MN
www.trailpatrol.org (http://www.trailpatrol.org)

"In the incomparable splendor of backcountry trails through the forests of the
north, I have ridden with bears, watched the eagles soar, and glimpsed the gray
wolf watching me ride." H. Erdman, Journal entry, May, 2005.

*International Police Mountain Bike Association

[Buck]

Here's an amusing story that just goes to show that it pays to be prepared:

For the past few days I have been attending IPMBA* Police Cyclist training as part of my job as a state park ranger. Because we spent about half of the 40-hour course on bikes, I carried my NMBP hydration pack with me, along with all the things I normally would have in it: Clif Shot, Clif Bars, tire tubes, sun screen, bug spray, first aid kit, multi-tool and my new Planet Bike air pump. Every time somebody would blow a tire, need some sunscreen, need to fix a mechanical problem or some quick energy, I would pull what they needed out of my pack and give it to them. About the third time this happened, one of the cops in the class looked over at me and asked, "What are you; like an 'OnStar" for bikes?" I replied, "Something like that."

Well, the name stuck. I was "OnStar" for the rest of the course. Thanks to Kenda, WTB, Tender Corporation, Clif Shot and Bars, Coppertone and Planet Bike for providing the supplies I needed to help out some cyclists in a totally different setting.

Ride safe,
:banana:
Hans Erdman, WEMT
Chippewa Forest Trails Steward
Patrol Director
Backcountry Trail Patrol- MN
www.trailpatrol.org (http://www.trailpatrol.org/)

"In the incomparable splendor of backcountry trails through the forests of the
north, I have ridden with bears, watched the eagles soar, and glimpsed the gray
wolf watching me ride." H. Erdman, Journal entry, May, 2005.

*International Police Mountain Bike Association

hahahaha, that is awesome!!!! sounds cool, I still need to get myself out to some of those MBP classes, I just need to make time!!!

L8R
Buck

[TML]

Good story Hans. That's pretty funny.

I don't see anything extraordinary in your pack. I guess that's just what those of us that are prepared carry along and take for granted.:)