Bleriot Love

[Lynne Fitz]

First, the setting...

I commute by bike. Commute bike is Bleriot, all done up with S&S
couplers, generator hub/light, Honjo fenders, sweet new Racktime rack,
little front rack, panniers...

I work at (but not FOR) Nike; my desk is in a building a long block
off the main campus, about 1.5 miles from where I need to be to meet
with my usability session participants. Clearly, I just ride over.
Even if I didn't have my bike, Nike has a fleet of bicycles just for
the purpose of moving one's self around. Bike parking is dead easy -
anywhere you want, as long as it is not in the way. I take my bike
everywhere I go, and NEVER have to lock it up.

Today - usability session in the Mia Hamm building. Bike is parked
along the outside window wall; I'm a few cubicles away. Toward the
end of the session, some random stranger pokes his head in.... "Is
that your bike? Wow!".

:-)

[Calvin Mukumoto]

I've seen Lynne's bike and I say wow!

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[Joan Oppel]

Bleriot Love - I totally agree!

Not only did I use two locks on my bike at my office building parking gargage bike rack, but I continue to use two locks when I park around my urban home location.  But - when in the countryside, on a ride with a group, we never lock our bikes outside gas stations, convenience stores, local markets.  And it seems like we're all in the store together,  at least at first. 

Joan 

[William]

Bleriots deserve the adoration, no question.  

[cyclot...@gmail.com]

I wonder if all things were equal with locking and visibility, what kind of bike a typical bike thief would go for first. Are they discerning enough to see lugged steel and Brooks saddles as a positive or neg? Would they go for a MCRB over a lugged steel bike, pick a Magna over a Moots? My hunch is a be-fendered Betty Foy would be the last bike to be nicked.

On Friday, March 16, 2012 8:49:02 AM UTC-7, Joan wrote:

Bleriot Love - I totally agree!

Not only did I use two locks on my bike at my office building parking gargage bike rack, but I continue to use two locks when I park around my urban home location.  But - when in the countryside, on a ride with a group, we never lock our bikes outside gas stations, convenience stores, local markets.  And it seems like we're all in the store together,  at least at first. 

Joan 

On 03/15/12, Lynne Fitz<fitz...@comcast.net> wrote:

 

First, the setting...

I commute by bike. Commute bike is Bleriot, all done up with S&S
couplers, generator hub/light, Honjo fenders, sweet new Racktime rack,
little front rack, panniers...

I work at (but not FOR) Nike; my desk is in a building a long block
off the main campus, about 1.5 miles from where I need to be to meet
with my usability session participants. Clearly, I just ride over.
Even if I didn't have my bike, Nike has a fleet of bicycles just for
the purpose of moving one's self around. Bike parking is dead easy -
anywhere you want, as long as it is not in the way. I take my bike
everywhere I go, and NEVER have to lock it up.

Today - usability session in the Mia Hamm building. Bike is parked
along the outside window wall; I'm a few cubicles away. Toward the
end of the session, some random stranger pokes his head in.... "Is
that your bike? Wow!".

:-)

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[Lynne Fitz]

Awww. Thanks! Your bike is awesome as well!

On Mar 15, 8:25 pm, Calvin Mukumoto <mukum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've seen Lynne's bike and I say wow!
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>