Originally Posted by
modernjess
Wow dcrowell you've lost a lot of stuff, your route must be treacherous.
I've lost one of my PB superflashes 3 times (half of it anyway) for various reasons, I went back and found it a day or more later only because I had an idea of where it came off, usually a crash site... That thing must have nine lives.
Pannier fell off once on a curb hop, it was 100% my fault for not fully securing it properly to the rack. My Macbook Air took it like a champ.
The routes fine, other than a few potholes. Today's computer issue was due to the latch the holds it in the mount being loose. It has been for a while. Apparently I bumped the computer with my body while stopping at a light. It fell off shortly after that.
The panniers falling off were due to a crappy rear rack that allowed the panniers to swing sideways into the wheel, which then launched them upward. Whee! One laptop almost got ran over, but the driver stopped in time and let me retrieve it. I've since switched rear racks.
I can see a Macbook Air being a bit sturdier with it's aluminum case and SSD. Both my laptops that fell were Thinkpads. One was a work laptop, it was not damaged, but it was also a sturdy, workstation-class machine. The other was my personal machine, and cheaper. It still worked, but it damaged the CPU fan, and eventually the machine wouldn't boot anymore.