Very clever, and glad you found a bike and had a good time -- and a free ride to the airport!
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 9:14 AM, Sean Kline <[email protected]> wrote: > My recent trip to Minneapolis felt too short to bring by Sam. And because > I made the mistake of buying a United Basic Economy ticket and wanted to > avoid any luggage fees, I needed to bring as little as necessary to support > my long weekend riding the Twin Cities' amazing bike trails. So, I had a > local shop in San Francisco called Paloma (palomahayes.com) hack my large > Sackville > SaddleSack to allow me to use as a backpack. > > > > > <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-eGHupuIyEAY/WXykkVn_TqI/AAAAAAAABUw/Bl8mViYc3bU_d7vN8l8HmOJu7uI7vmEbACLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_2806.jpg> > > > Fully loaded, it was not the most comfortable backpack I've used (I'm now > having Paloma put leather shoulder pads on the top of the straps to make it > more comfortable), but it worked wonderfully for my journey on public > transit to San Francisco Airport, convincing United it was just another > carry-on backpack, and then commuting by light rail from the Minneapolis > airport to an AirBnB near downtown. Once I got to my AirBnB, I took off the > shoulder straps and zip tied the bag to a Nitto Big Back Rack on a borrowed > Sam. Like coming home. > > > > Which brings me to the most remarkable part of my weekend riding the > remarkable bike infrastructure of the Twin Cities. A couple of weeks before > my trip, I put out a call to any Riv owners in or near Minneapolis to see > if someone would be willing to rent me a 55-60 cm Riv for the weekend. In > fact, a very kind Riv-riding soul dropped off his 55 cm blue Sam with > Albatross bars to me at my AirBnB. Then he picked up his bike at the end of > the weekend and drove me to the airport. I put the straps back on the > Sackville and home I went. > > > Grateful, > > Sean > > El Cerrito, CA > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, bios, and letters that get interviews. By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. Other professional writing services. http://www.resumespecialties.com/ www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmooreresumespec/ Patrick Moore Alburquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten ************************************************************************** ************** *Interested in trading resume, LinkedIn, and other writing work for professional (professional) help with marketing and growing my resumes, etc. business. Respondents should have considerable experience in helping small, online businesses grow. Please contact me at [email protected] <[email protected]>. Thanks.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
