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Old 06-02-07 | 11:41 AM
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i still smell better than all the older ladies round here overloaded on perfume! makes me almost pass out sometimes... some peoples idea of personal hygene is a little crazy to me.
all those chemicals are prolly bad!
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Old 06-03-07 | 06:48 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
I may not go as fast as kokomo but I got it made.

I have my own shower and bathroom, as much closet space as I could ever want, and at times I have as many as 4 bikes at my workplace, indoors of course.

I have big time respect for you guys who just towel off and have to haul everything.

Oh, plus I get to sit here at work on the forums and lastly, I'm gonna take a nice little ride during lunch on an absolutely stunning day!
I have some of those benefits, but not all. A rarely used shower, a mostly scenic ride out of Boulder, CO, where the weather is generally pretty favorable to bike commuting. Oh, and one other thing: A pass for the bus, which allows bikes on it. My ride's 22 miles, but the bus can take me about 13 of it. Tomorrow thinking about riding all the way in, but getting some bus assistance in the evening, when the wind tends to kick up and showers sometimes roll through.
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Old 06-03-07 | 08:12 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
I may not go as fast as kokomo but I got it made.

I have my own shower and bathroom, as much closet space as I could ever want, and at times I have as many as 4 bikes at my workplace, indoors of course.

I have big time respect for you guys who just towel off and have to haul everything.

Oh, plus I get to sit here at work on the forums and lastly, I'm gonna take a nice little ride during lunch on an absolutely stunning day!

I have the same hook-up and I have a laundry room.
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Old 06-04-07 | 01:29 PM
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I have a 4.7 GHz wifi iHelmet w/wetware interface, so I can do all my work and post here while riding my bike.
Which version are you running, v.1337?
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Old 06-04-07 | 01:34 PM
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Indoor, underground parking accessed by magnetic pass only (but I put it behind a partition on my floor near my desk ...98% don't even know it's there), private shower stall, change room, 24/7 work gym access. 5bucks a week off my pay... no problemo.
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Old 06-04-07 | 01:44 PM
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After today I have even more to add. The typical low temp this time of year where I live is in the low 40's. It was 65 on my ride in at 5 AM today! No tights, no jacket, no gloves, it was fantastic.

Off the thread topic, I did my avatar ride yesterday and came within a few feet of a herd of about a dozen bighorn sheep. Talk about cool!
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Old 06-04-07 | 01:46 PM
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Um, I have my own office with a door and a window on the corner of the building. My bike can easily sit in the corner without anyone really noticing. No other big perks other than specific space in the fridge, 3 massive closets for my junk, and yeah I'm posting here atm.
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Old 06-04-07 | 01:55 PM
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Big locker room, private shower stalls (with laundry hooks to dry off my riding gear,) I park my bike in my cube when it's dry and in the locker room when it's sopping wet.
I'm the only regular bike commuter out of 80 people at this facility. There's 2 more commuters at one of our other facilities, out of about another 100 people. (They have indoor bike parking and a nice locker room setup over there, too. And a basketball hoop in in the back parking lot.)
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Old 06-04-07 | 05:22 PM
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My bike computer composes posts for me, and posts them to BF using a built-in EvDO chip, while I'm riding.

The way the post is written is set by what gear I'm in and my cadence. Higher cadence, shorter post. Higher gear, less flaming post. So, to not get banned for absolutely tearing into people in A&S, I have to spin fast in a high gear.



On a more serious note... I haven't actually started commuting yet, and it'll only be partially on bike (most of it will be by car.) However, my work DOES have a shower. I'll have to see whether I can actually get access to it or not, though. And, there's plenty of room in the boiler room to stick a bike inside.
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Old 06-04-07 | 05:55 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
Oh yes, it does warm occasionally in Manitscolda. Presently a calm and sunny 70 with no humidity.
Which means mosquitos the size of small airplanes will soon appear (or at least they did in Montana )....but what do you do at 40 below???
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Old 06-04-07 | 08:43 PM
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Let us know when you wake up from your day dream!
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Old 06-04-07 | 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by CB HI
daredevil,
Let us know when you wake up from your day dream!
I would think with you in Honolulu, anything I can say must pale in comparison.

Regarding mosquitos squirtdad, they really aren't a problem here and I draw the line riding at about 0 to -5. Those numbers probably make CB HI faint.
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Old 06-05-07 | 06:49 AM
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Which version are you running, v.1337?
Yeah, but I am about to download the v.31337 bios update.
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Old 06-05-07 | 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by DataJunkie
It is more like 500. I am terrible at measuring.
Anyhow, I can see it from where I sit.
Yesterday a new guy in the office got us to look out the window at his new bike that he parked in the bike stand across the street instead of in the secure lockup under the building. The ironic part is that we were 15 floors up and had a great view of the guy who walked up, took a huge pair of bolt cutters out of his trench coat and cut the lock off his bike. There was nothing we could do except call the cops with the description.
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Old 06-05-07 | 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by daredevil
I may not go as fast as kokomo but I got it made.

I have my own shower and bathroom, as much closet space as I could ever want, and at times I have as many as 4 bikes at my workplace, indoors of course.

I have big time respect for you guys who just towel off and have to haul everything.

Oh, plus I get to sit here at work on the forums and lastly, I'm gonna take a nice little ride during lunch on an absolutely stunning day!
So are you in Winnipeg? I'm curious who the good employers are.
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