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I won’t be there, obviously, but will indulge in the alcohols regardless.

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@rcannon100 149535 wrote:

Would it be possible to have a positive energy thread?

A ‘Cannon will keep firing’ thread?

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And I want to carp about how the PNW may not get below freezing, but it does come with a kind of cold that crawls into your soul and dies there. Plus this rain. It’s a drizzle, but it’s relentless in its drizzliness.

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@ian74 149065 wrote:

You have to move back to Virginia to play!!! Are you moving back to Virginia? We’d like that.

It says Washington area, and I am in one of them. We may even go below freezing this year maybe!

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Hello. I’ve been away. IS IT TIME TO REGISTER YET OR WHAT?

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Of course this happens a month after I move to a snowless region.

Pff.

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@vvill 127057 wrote:

Where are you going? Pac NW??

Seattle! I’m here already!

The stuff is still for sale at Bikenetic – proceeds go to Bikes for the World, so pay generously!

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@Amalitza 126884 wrote:

I don’t see the rockhopper in the pics. Does that mean it’s sold? If not, what size of a person might it fit?

Yep, we sold it. It’s the new owner’s first bike, too – which is a good thing to be responsible for.

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@krazygl00 126178 wrote:

Do you still have the quill-to-threadless stem adapter?

Sorry – totally missed this. Yes. Yes I do.

Boomer – I decided to keep the rain splats, given that I’m moving to rain country.

Everyone: this is a moving sale now – this stuff must go by Saturday! AAAAAA!

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Does anyone have words of wisdom re shipping 5 bikes across the country? I’m looking at Amtrak, maybe, but I can’t see any indication about whether it includes insurance. (we’re shipping everything else using door to door pods, but the bike boxes will take up all the space.

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@jrenaut 126279 wrote:

I spent the summer in Seattle. The hills are crazy. But the entire summer it’s 75, sunny, and low humidity. There’s a really strong family biking community on Facebook, and they have some really nice bike infrastructure.

However, they’re big on beg buttons, short walk times, and mandatory helmets.

The mandatory helmets I did find annoying, yes (less so than my wife, who takes a more Dutch-fast-pedestrian-no-helmet cycling approach). And yes, a world where 80+ counts as ‘heatwave’ is a world I need to partake in. I didn’t leave my tropical homeland to deal with more tropical summers, yo.

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I had considered that, but it seems inflexible for, say, multiple grocery bags, because of the vertical loading.

I ended up getting this: http://quik-pak.com/

It’s wonderful – the hitch is a ball hitch thing, which is super convenient. And it was totally grand for schlepping 60 lbs of goods from Costco.

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I had considered that, but it seems inflexible for, say, multiple grocery bags, because of the vertical loading.

I ended up getting this: http://quik-pak.com/

It’s wonderful – the hitch is a ball hitch thing, which is super convenient. And it was totally grand for schlepping 60 lbs of goods from Costco.

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The pedals have been promised, but I’ll bring the splats for Monday pancakes. They should totally fit size 12.

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Kickstand’s been spoken for, but the saddle’s yours. I commute between Falls Church and Tysons, and am open to longer rides into Arlington – PM me to set up time/place please?

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