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Why don't more people cycle to work?

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  • #272
    07Lapierre
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,416 ✭✭✭07Lapierre


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Not a chance I'd have my golf bag on a trailer like that :o

    A golf bag could have €1500 in it easy enough, I'd be a nervous wreck. I've recently sold all my golf gear though

    This is a cycling forum...€1500 wouldn't even get you a descent set of wheels! :)

    https://www.bike24.de/1.php?content=8;product=242543;menu=1000,4,123,30;mid=0;pgc=0


  • #273
    Rechuchote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Not a chance I'd have my golf bag on a trailer like that :o

    A golf bag could have €1500 in it easy enough, I'd be a nervous wreck. I've recently sold all my golf gear though

    Rrreeeeeally? Is that where you keep it? Hmmmmm!


  • #274
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,937 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Not a chance I'd have my golf bag on a trailer like that :o

    A golf bag could have €1500 in it easy enough, I'd be a nervous wreck. I've recently sold all my golf gear though

    One of my guitars is worth a lot more than €1500.

    EDIT: Actually two of them, now I think about it!


  • #275
    LollipopJimmy
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    tomasrojo wrote: »
    One of my guitars is worth a lot more than €1500.

    EDIT: Actually two of them, now I think about it!

    Do you tow them on a trailer? My guitar is stored in a flight case in the house. Rarely comes out these days though :(


  • #276
    Macy0161
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,709 ✭✭✭Macy0161


    Just back to the whole showering thing - finally got around to refitting the pannier rack earlier in the week and first commute with it yesterday. I'd forgotten what a difference it makes in terms of sweating (and general comfort). I was taking it easy, but definitely would've got away with a baby wipe/ flannel wash down with that compared to the ruck sack.


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  • #277
    Rechuchote
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,171 ✭✭✭Rechuchote


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Do you tow them on a trailer? My guitar is stored in a flight case in the house. Rarely comes out these days though :(

    https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/997837806901911553


  • #278
    tomasrojo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,937 ✭✭✭✭tomasrojo


    LollipopJimmy wrote: »
    Do you tow them on a trailer? My guitar is stored in a flight case in the house. Rarely comes out these days though :(

    I did for years, in a hard case in the trailer, though just for unamplified performances, especially when I was trying to perform my programme getting ready for a fellowship, and was playing to any group of people who'd listen. For teaching and amplified gigs I have a cheaper electro-acoustic.

    I switched eventually to using a Brompton and inverting the trailer hitch to get a lower-riding arrangement, which totally gets rid of the pendulum effect.

    I now mostly use a BackAxe harness to carry guitars in a hard case on my back. It's just easier not having to find somewhere to stow the Brompton and the trailer when I get there. Or I use the bakfiets.

    I was reluctant initially to take guitars out on the bike, but I won't get much use out of them if I don't get out, and the trailer actually has always taken all the abuse. Never got a scratch on the guitar case, let alone the guitar.

    If someone crashes into me, I think the integrity of the guitar will be lower down on my priorities than my integrity!


  • #279
    theyoungchap
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    Cycling against the traffic on a unicycle with a sign strapped to your back playing a harmonica, what could possibly go wrong?


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