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I've been just about everywhere on my mountain bike so this year I thought I'd try something different. Our anniversary was coming so the wife decided to buy me the ultimate MTB vacation....that's right...to the Moon. I know what you're thinking but quite honestly, it's quite affordable this time of year as the heavy gravitational pull and meteor showers usually keeps all but the most committed tourists away. You just have to want it bad enough and have the pocket book to afford it.

Well, it was quite an experience to say the least. The shuttle-lag you get from space travel made me a little groggy but once there the open-ness of space and lack of oxygen really invigorate the senses. We got our spacesuits on in just under three hours and we immdiately set up camp in our egg-crate houses, and began to unload the bikes. Of course, all government-built vehicles suffer from lack of quality, and thus...the bay doors were stuck again. So, we had to unload them from the inside out. Yakima bike racks were originally fitted to the shuttle but it was thought to be a bad idea for re-entry on the way back since the bikes would pretty much incinerate to nothingness.

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