[PRCo] Re: I miss the Harmony Route...

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Joshua Dunfield <joshuad at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:
> On 23 September 2012 16:23, Derrick Brashear <shadow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I considered, too late, buying a folding bike. Had I one, I might have
>> attempted this. But, much like the recent times
>> when I wanted to get to Cranberry and in the other case had no
>> interest in driving, this week I miss the Harmony route.
>
> Folding bikes are great, but the good ones (small enough to put in a
> large suitcase without disassembly) are expensive.  Not nearly as
> expensive as a car, of course.

craigslist ftw, i hope. basically people who bought one and now don't care.
but yes, i had been looking at a pricy montague, new, a while ago.

> The local trains from Kaiserslautern are spec'd for at least 12
> regular bikes, so I usually don't bother folding mine; it's not one of
> the really small ones anyway.  For me, the main advantage is the
> smaller wheels, which make it much easier to start moving from a dead
> stop (a bigger deal in Philly and Montreal than here).

i have a standard 26" bike, now 7 years old, which i just keep getting fixed.
i can tell you that friday night after attending "StartupWeekend" (an event
where people pitch company ideas and then break into groups and start
building the new ideas to see how far along their concepts can get in a weekend)
I needed to get from East Liberty to the North Side for a concert.
Straight in Penn
and over the 7th St Bridge... was amused that a car I first passed at
Penn and Penn Circle
West finally got past me for the last time and was unseen again... as
I started across
the 7th St Bridge. So I guess I do ok with it.

-- 
Derrick