[RobertLS]

Anyone here participate?

Bikejoring: a dog mushing activity related to skijoring, canicross, and dog scootering. It is a recreation or sport where a harnessed dog or team of dogs attached to a towline, pull and run ahead of a cyclist. Bikejoring is a non snow season (dryland) activity. Bikejoring and canicross are both dryland mushing activities that probably developed from skijoring and dogsled racing. Bikejoring is also sometimes used to train racing sled-dogs out of season.

They mention APBT specifically in Wikipedia, which I thought was interesting.

What brought me to this was this video:



I could not IMAGINE ever having hooked Baloo up to something like that. It was scary enough just hooking him up to a walkydog, but this actually encourages them to run like their butts are on fire!

You would really have to know the trail well before you rode on it, because you would not be able to slow down if some big drop snuck up on you.

Crazy!

[xyznicks]

I've always wanted to do something like that, but my self preservation says no... Sled or scooter, sure, but no way José would I hook Roxie to the front of my bike. I can just imagine her getting spooked by something and bye bye goes me!

I think I'll stick to the Walky Dog, lol!

[Kissntell]

There is no way in bloody hell, unless it was a suicide attempt, that I would EVER hook up one of my incredibly prey driven dogs to the front of a bicycle.

A cart or wheeled sled with breaks? Sure. There's just something I don't trust about a bike though...

[Geetiill]

I do! It's a blast! I don't get to do it off road like I'd really love to, but we do it around the house and on a stretch of road that's entrances are blocked off. Only with Dakota, he's very responsive and has a lot of premack under his belt to counter the high prey drive. Not Alice though... she's... well... a bit of a dumbass... Love her though.

[tsovimnpb]

There is no way in bloody hell, unless it was a suicide attempt, that I would EVER hook up one of my incredibly prey driven dogs to the front of a bicycle.

A cart or wheeled sled with breaks? Sure. There's just something I don't trust about a bike though...

A bike has brakes :P

Anyhow that is besides the point, we did bikejoring and skatejoring all the time with my moms little amstaff girl before I moved out here to Texas, she loved the exercise and I loved the fun. She was highly drivey to and we never had an issue but I did have to be alert of my surroundings. If we saw any critters (we lived in the middle of nowhere with no other dogs for miles but there were deer, rabbit, squirrels.) It was important to immediately get her focus on me as I slowed to a stop.

I won't lie, it's not for everyone and takes some practice, never had any issues as I said with bikejoring, now skijoring I tried once and never again lol but bikejoring and skatejoring are awesome. Here's the Joring setup we have here and I plan to use it with Anubis when he gets older.

Ruffwear Omnijoreâ„¢ Joring System for Dog-Pulling Activities

[Fegasderty]

Wow thats a cool setup! Maybe I'll try when I get my future GSP. A bunch of the videos on youtube feature them. And I know they've got the energy to burn. I'm a fan of mountain biking, I'm just not sure about a very fast animal determining my speed...

[NikolaAAA]

That sound fun but my dog is lazy when it comes to pulling. I have the Walky dog and he is happy just runing alongside the bike. He does not pull even when I want him to.

[Kayakeenemeds]

I prefer the stuff from Hunting Alberta Bear Hunts Whitetail Deer Hunts Elk Hunts Wolf Hunts Gopher Hunts Alpine Outfitters Alberta Canada Hunting Guides

Don't get me wrong Ruffwear is great, but why pay their obscene prices when you can get very economical equiment from people who really know mushing equipment...

If I ever get a bike I'm totally doing ti with Lily. She already knows directionals and stuff. i would recommend getting Lee Fishback's book called Training Lead Dogs. I didn't use his aversives, but there is some really valuable info on the mechanics of creating a lead dog if you ignore the violent crap. I got it for like six bucks on dogwise.com.

Lily and Scout do work well as a team, but Scout outweighs Lily by quite a bit and I don't trust her extreme prey drive, so despite Lily being a good leader I don't think I'll ever team them up. In any case, teach your dog to lead and follow the proper commands before you actually do it (or carting/scootering) because otherwise you can really f yourself up. I know someone who really screwed up her hip in a carting crash because she didn't teach either of her Sibes to be a lead dog....

[VIAGRAENLINOBARATOCAMPRAR]

Posted the wrong site... dangit! http://www.alpineoutfitters.net/secu...ts/default.asp

[Zzvukttz]

Can't do it. I can imagine Muff running under a low branch that's fine for him, but would knock me down and out.

[OlgaBorovikovva]

I prefer the stuff from Hunting Alberta Bear Hunts Whitetail Deer Hunts Elk Hunts Wolf Hunts Gopher Hunts Alpine Outfitters Alberta Canada Hunting Guides

Don't get me wrong Ruffwear is great, but why pay their obscene prices when you can get very economical equiment from people who really know mushing equipment...

If I ever get a bike I'm totally doing ti with Lily. She already knows directionals and stuff. i would recommend getting Lee Fishback's book called Training Lead Dogs. I didn't use his aversives, but there is some really valuable info on the mechanics of creating a lead dog if you ignore the violent crap. I got it for like six bucks on dogwise.com.

Lily and Scout do work well as a team, but Scout outweighs Lily by quite a bit and I don't trust her extreme prey drive, so despite Lily being a good leader I don't think I'll ever team them up. In any case, teach your dog to lead and follow the proper commands before you actually do it (or carting/scootering) because otherwise you can really f yourself up. I know someone who really screwed up her hip in a carting crash because she didn't teach either of her Sibes to be a lead dog....

I got all my ruffwear gear free lol so I'm not complaining.

[ranndomderr]

Oh heck yeah, can't beat free. You should get me two of their Track Jackets while you are at!

[mikefertynnz]

I got all my ruffwear gear free lol so I'm not complaining.

What! how do you get them free?
I'm so jelly. They have amazing products.

[cliceperperIa]

This is Dakota's harness
Ultra Paws® One Harness-Ultra Paws

[dremucha]

I LOVE it!! I do scootering.. and I'm pretty darn sure I'm the one who edited the Wiki page to add APBTs to the list. and the commands. LOL I prefer a scooter, because it's a heck of a lot easier to just let the darn thing go when you're heading for a tree.

edit* looking at the page, I actually did a good bit of the Wiki page on dog scootering, not bikejoring.

[yPuqQ248]

What! how do you get them free?
I'm so jelly. They have amazing products.

We reviewed the products back before my blog decided to crash. I've not put it back up yet because I lost everything, over 800 posts and I'm hesitant to start again. CURSES BLOGGER!

[RayFairhurst]

I LOVE it!! I do scootering.. and I'm pretty darn sure I'm the one who edited the Wiki page to add APBTs to the list. and the commands. LOL I prefer a scooter, because it's a heck of a lot easier to just let the darn thing go when you're heading for a tree.

edit* looking at the page, I actually did a good bit of the Wiki page on dog scootering, not bikejoring.

What type of scooter do you use? I use a kick scooter and we don't use it too frequently these days because of Zoey's level of prey drive, now that she's fully matured. If we weren't residing in a populated neighborhood, we would do it loads more often. I can't seem to find an area that is paved and out in a rural area that is not busy at all. It's very true though, I can control the both of us 10x better on the scooter, than lets say, a skateboard or bike. I can't believe I survived the very small amount of times, maybe 3-4 at the most, when I decided to put my life on the line by having Zoey pull me on my skateboard haha.

[AnetTeilor]

You should start it again and give me the blog's link. Do you review only doggy things? I would totally love reading those and learn about new doggy products.

Have you ever tried the jackets from them? I've been thinking of buying it, but I don't want to drop the dough unless it's worth it.

[Kolovorotkes]

I use a Torker, I ordered it from the local bike shop.. $112, delivered and assembled, with a handlebar extender for my 5'11" frame.

pre-handlebar extender arrival (LOL) Got the scooter that day, and even though it was sledding weather, took 'er for a spin!

My ex w/ our Great Dane.


i have 3 different sledding harnesses, all from adanacsleds.com. One is a typical X-back harness, and 2 are the multi-sport harnesses. I'm getting a really neat one soon that should work ok for Indie.

[famosetroie]

I've thought about getting involved in bike joring. I regularly take Chassis out with my bike and walkydog attachment, I let her pull me and she runs like her tail's on fire. We go extremely fast and it's a rush. She LIVES for it and it keeps her in tip-top shape. When I need to slow down to pass people or go around corners, I just hit my brakes and tell her "slow" until I release her with an "ok", then she goes back to full speed. She knows what that means. I think it would actually be easier having her in front of me going as fast as we do than beside.