Bullitt people are the same. I met a dude the other day at a stoplight on a red Bullitt with a huge sound system on it complete with the kind of subwoofer that you’d install in the trunk of a car.
I couldn’t hang though because he had a motorized front wheel.
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In Sydney it’s pretty much anyone on a non-standard bike. Cargo bike folx chat to me on my elephant, and just about everyone charts to me when I’m riding the spicy curry.
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15 years ago I decided to buy a bike to ride to my shitty job at target in eureka, CA. and lo, my life was changed forever and I’ve commuted about 41,000 miles.
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Is this where we confess our CAT6 sins? I was biking along a section of unknown-to-me MUP through a brushy area where you could not see beyond the narrow cleared pathway. I was going maybe a little too fast and what started as a gentle right turned into a decreasing radius turn and before I know it I’m drifting onto the centre line. Duder coming opposite is riding hard on his side tight to centre; oh fuk we’re going to shoulder each other. We must have passed within millimetres because I didn’t feel a thing but fella had some words for me (that I could not understand) after we passed. If you’re out there, lurking, mystery commuter, I apologize.
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Damn I thought this was going to be a Central Park at 2 am in the early 90s kind of story
Sir, this is Ottawa. The only thing happening in the bush is maple tapping.
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Oh so that’s what they call it in Ottawa
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Is this where we talking about commuting because I’ve now got a 17-20 mile daily round trip and feel underprepared for
Have access to shower and lockers
Some days will be on cycletruck, some days will be on road bike with Fred rear rack.
Need a 15” laptop compatible bag that looks nice because I have to look nice. Figure whatever it is can be thrown into the cycle truck bed, and either can be inserted into my massive carradice super c pannier or maybe it’s a pannier briefcase? Ideally waterproof?
@Rusty_Piton what’s the briefcase you use? Can I copy your style?
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Rapha backpack?
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That briefcase pannier was great. It was an ortlieb. I used that thing for like five years and the contents never got wet. It eventually got a hole in it from rubbing on stuff while on the low rider rack on my h/g. It was definitely too big for front use but I did it anyway.
I had this one or something very similar. I know they make a handful of briefcase models.
https://www.moosejaw.com/product/ortlieb-office-ql2-1-messenger-bag_10314240?skuSelect=3111973&promoCode=SPF20&ad_id=Google&utm_source=google&utm_medium=pla&utm_campaign=MJ-Shopping-Low-Inventory&utm_content=MJ-Shopping-Low-Inventory&cm_mmc=PLA-_-Google-_-MJ-Shopping-Low-Inventory|MJ-Shopping-Low-Inventory-_-google|18339980148|141323671397|622024533827|pla-66841196797|m|9021731|3111973&gclid=Cj0KCQjwho-lBhC_ARIsAMpgMocDDQZnmhGWZxFL01awNfGC3fIvvf5zBPu8YwOcfa6mLiIpjFgIGSkaAj56EALw_wcB
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a nice thin backpack can work for that
and a 15" laptop bag drops into a Wald 139 basket
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To answer the above, I bought an ortlieb backpack and I loved it
More dumb baby commute questions
I have to wear an oxford and slacks everyday, how the hell do I get them to work without wrinkling up?
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The first time I read this I thought there was a spaghetti baby on the way. I need more coffee.
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Starch on the Oxford
You’re gonna get a pants wrinkle
Fold the shirt into the pants so the shirt doesn’t wrinkle as much (midsection fold is buffered by pants)
Get pants with a poly content
This was my plan when I had the omnium and wanted a waterproof pelican to put on the front
I have a similar strategy of rolling up my shirt in the pants for an office clothes burrito. It seems to result in less wrinkles but it’s about sweater season so not as much of an issue!
here is what you do. you bring 5 shirts and some pants to work on monday every week in some other conveyance OR you have them cleaned near your office. then they live at work and you live at home and you come in and change every day.
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This works for me too.
“Nude beach gathering. Easy to mount”
I guess so!
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