My Atlantis looked seriously bedraggled after spending a day on the back of a flat bed truck in a serious rainstorm. Long story but the guy who loaded the bikes & drove them between points A & B had no idea what he was doing. Fortunately, he used rope instead of chain to tie the load down. I considered repainting it but after a while, thought "Naw, I'll just do something else stupid so why bother." It's had many adventures that would make a bike snob cringe but I bought it to ride, not sit around looking good.
Ditto on the pipe insulation. I've shipped mine many times without damage thank so to using it on all the tubes including the fork. You never know when the guys on loading dock are gonna drive a fork lift blade thru your box. dougP On Monday, July 13, 2020 at 2:08:50 PM UTC-7, Bicycle Belle Ding Ding! wrote: > > Every year I point the van north and drive from Vegas to small town North > Dakota, and the lakes country of Minnesota. And every year I drag 3-4 bikes > along with us on a Saris rack. I’ve gone through several different bikes in > the past several years (the kids are growing, I switched to That Clem Life, > etc) so I’ve never found an exact formula to make the bikes fit perfectly. > This year I hauled my new loooonnnnngggg 52 cm Clementine (2019 geo), the > old 1st gen 52 cm blue Clem H, #theClemRider’s little 45 cm 2018 Clem H, > and Baby Bear’s 24 inch Specialized Hot Rock. > > I never regret bringing my bikes, but I do admit I lament that they come > back to Vegas in poorer condition than when they left. We always get caught > in a rainstorm at some point, and usually more than once. After that I > always notice creaking where there hadn’t been, rust on the heads of bolts > or inside the braze-ons. I usually have new scuffs from the bikes knocking > together on the rack, dirt and grit where I hadn’t had it before. One year > I drove to a shooting range on 20 miles’ worth of gravel roads and the > bikes were completely trashed at a level you can’t fathom. The Betty Foy > (now sold) had a permanent ugly mark on the top tube where the arm bar of > the rack had mashed the cable into the paint. > > You would think I would learn and get this dialed in but I never really > do. This year was really something - when was the last time you tried to > get 3 Rivendells with Bosco bars on a rack? Boscos don’t play nicely. Three > of 4 of the bikes had baskets, and all 4 had racks. Yeah, nightmare. > > So, this vacation I have discovered new ways to damage my bikes. I’ll > provide the photos and explanations in the next post... > > > -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/d16f69b8-0187-4d93-9624-7e9cf20acd73o%40googlegroups.com.
