New (to me) commuter, and sundry ramblings-on about my bikes.

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It's been dead around here, so let's see if we can get some baby pictures going. Whatcha got in your stable these days? This is my new-to-me commuter, yet another twenty-something-year-old steel frame, dragged out of my boss' shed where it had been languishing and put back into service.

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[missingkeys]

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That's a serious attack of weather! Where I live, the only surprise weather we get is summer thunderstorms (and I've ridden home in more than one of those). If we were getting that much snow, there would be no milk or bread on the shelves and the schools would be closed.

[missingkeys]

Ooh, yes. I'm not originally from here, and I'm far more used to thunderstorms--though in summer they're less of a surprise and more of an everyday occurrence in summer, heh. I just got totally stuck with this one, though. I'd left the house on an overcast morning with my outside thermometer reading a couple of degrees above zero, and the skies just opened partway through.

The schools across the road seemed to just shrug and let the kids go out for a bit longer to make snowmen. :)

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The summer thunderstorms are pretty much a coin-toss here, and just unpredictable enough that the weather forecasters never really know. If I stayed inside every time there was a reasonable chance of a storm I would never get out there. When I lived in the Midwest they were a lot less antsy about snow, but now I live in the South, in a city that gets basically the same weather as Atlanta. When the snow sticks to the ground here, it's pretty much a state of emergency.

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I remember seeing the Norco before. It looks like about the perfect bike for riding across Canada. And isn't it kind of amazing how attached we get to bikes like that? I had a period of mourning over the Raleigh. Fortunately it was mitigated by finding the eGo, but it still took me some time to actually let go of the Raleigh (i.e., it didn't happen until I needed a space to hang the Specialized). When I first posted about it, I was hoping someone might be able to to recommend a way to braze the frame back together, but the only viable suggestions involved replacing the entire seat stay, a major surgery that would have cost more than the bike was worth. Even with the sentimental value taken into account. The Jamis does look like a good bike for riding to death. I don't do mountain biking (just commuting and road, here), so I would have the Jamis outfitted with fenders and a rack and I would be riding it to work. The Specialized would have been a good bike for the trails around here when I first got it. Not so much now, with the city

[bigeyedphish]

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I like it! And the shower is the perfect place for that picture. Mud everywhere!