Brain Teaser #76

[Greg Bernhardt]

I have no mechanical parts but I take you for a ride.
I won't be ridden in a desert or on a mountainside.
Each time the ride is different - no two are ever the same.
Some are wild and treacherous and some are very tame.
What am I?

[marcus]

an ocean wave takes a surfer for a ride
no two waves are the same
and each ride is different

[Jimmy]

Greg, by mechanical, do you mean no moving, man-made parts or no moving parts?

[DarkAnt]

a raft?

I finally got to one of these at the right time!!!![:D] [:D] [:D] [:D]

[Jimmy]

I think marcus has the right answer. A surf board or raft isn't intrinsically treacherous.

I was going to suggest the answer was something you might find downtown but that probably wouldn't go over very well. *ahem*. [:D]

[DarkAnt]

I think marcus is correct as well. [*(]
which means i don't get a point, maybe I can get a thousandth of a point for effort.

[DarkAnt]

is it a river?

[FZ+]

Doesn't quite fit mountainside, though.

Perhaps we are going for metaphoricals?

A conman who is trying to "take you for a ride"?

[DarkAnt]

how about the ocean surf?

[Robert Zaleski]

Surf Board

[brum]

a dolphin? a whale?

(see riding dolphins & whales (http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/r21.htm) --which came from a site that lists many animals that people ride (http://www.greenapple.com/~jorp/amzanim/ridem.htm) )

[meteor]

A boat?

[Greg Bernhardt]

Surf Board, point for marcus!