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Posts: 173 Deckhand
Hunting bike ?
km_hunts-06
Posts: 173 Deckhand
Thinking of purchasing a mountain bike for my up coming Sambar hunt and to use on my locala wma ...was wondering how many of yall hunt off bikes ? Fat tire or skinny and any other advice ?
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good luck
rich
Overall I'm happy with it for the $199 price tag. Doesn't do well in sugar sand though. I'd get one and start riding it as already said. It's a good tool for hunting in the right places.
That's a very interesting idea. Do you know if they consider an electric bicycle a motorized vehicle on public land? It might be electric but it's still technically motorized. Have you used one on public land?
I shot one from the main road.
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The guns were in waterproof sleeves with regular gun cases and then those were just bungeed to the center support, running the length of the bike, because in the front we installed heavy duty baskets so that we could carry bags of decoys on the front. The gun stayed out of the way and it never moved around when in was bungeed nice and tight
You ride along the beach. I did several hunts at St. Vincent some moons ago and road from the camp area closest to land to the far tip of the island along the hardpacked wet sand beach. Not good for the bike! I then would take my climber, hide the bike in the bushes and walk in to the islands interior.
It was really cool in the am. Two hours before first light, the stars, the shrimpers way off in the distance and the back tire would kick up phosphorescence phytoplankon that was in the damp sand. Your tire track would glow, and it would last for 20 minutes or more.
I used a regular mountain bike with big tires and about 15 pounds of pressure in them. It worked great. And a rear rack to strap my cimbber on.
fatbikes
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As long as it can't go over 20 mph, you're good according to the law as it still falls under a bicycle.
What kind of trailer do you have there? Nice buck btw
I'm wanting to do the same thing, those kid trailers seem to be cheap used. I'd be interested in a few pics of the work you did if you're willing to share.
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Good stuff, thanks!
Cool good to know. Thanks
not good to go all places. Down here (IRC/Brevard) motors are motors, electric or otherwise. I know several guys that got stroked by FWC for electric bikes in a no motorized vehicle area.
You may be right in terms of the ticket, but that's why we have courts. F.S. 316.003(2) is pretty clear and 320.01 helps explain things as well.
I think you misread the statute a bicycle is defined as having to Tandem Wheels and is actually defined as a vehicle... If you're referring to statute 321 to clear things up I'm not sure that it does a Mobility assist device is defined as having two NON TANDEM Wheels and self-balancing
ELECTRIC PERSONAL ASSISTIVE MOBILITY DEVICE.—Any self-balancing, two-nontandem-wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system with average power of 750 watts (1 horsepower), the maximum speed of which, on a paved level surface when powered solely by such a propulsion system while being ridden by an operator who weighs 170 pounds, is less than 20 miles per hour. Electric personal assistive mobility devices are not vehicles as defined in this section.
I found a cheapo mtn bike out in the neighbors trash.
Had standard knobby tires and a ****ty seat.
I bought a good seat, painted it camo and have successfully hunted GSW, UH, LSNWR in scrub, dirt, mud, underwater, sugar sand(not long stretches), etc
I don't think it would ride down a powdery beach, but it was fine for all purpose stuff
I would say you misread it and should look up tandem. 320.01 defines a motor vehicle (and excludes what's defined as a bicycle), which you can't ride through the woods. A vehicle and motor vehicle are not the same.
May also want to look at F.A.C. regarding WMA rules:
68A-15.004 General Regulations Relating to Wildlife Management Areas.
(9) Vehicles:
(a) No motor vehicle shall be operated on any part of any wildlife management area designated by area regulations as closed to vehicular traffic or temporarily closed by administrative action and posting notice of such on those areas because of inclement weather, poor road conditions, construction or management activities or wildlife surveys. The use of two-wheeled motor-powered vehicles or all-terrain vehicles is prohibited on any roads or trails not open to or used by other vehicles unless otherwise provided by specific area regulation.
The last part of that rule likely rules out motorized bicycles.
An earlier post also referenced using a bike on the Sambar hunt which is a National Wildlife Refuge and not a WMA so Code of Federal Regulations applies and not state statutes or rules.