Fast_Orange

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• Toplessness

  in General • 12 years, 5 months

  

  I went topless today on the way home from work. White guy in China with bright blonde hair pacing cars outside the bike lane.

  I felt great but kinda like a foreign douche at the same time...

• Video Games

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 5 months

  

  Anyone here play EVE? I'm looking for a new corp to join...

• Tattoos

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 6 months

  

  She gave me some free touch-ups on my leg too since she had all her gear set up already.
  

  We are borg. Resistance is futile.

• Tattoos

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 6 months

  

  I got some more work done:

  
  

• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 9 months

  

  To be fair, the meat tends to shrink quite a bit after cooking.

• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 12 years, 9 months

  

  I've been eating a lot of hot pot at home lately.

  

  

  Special peanut sauce...

  

  In front of the comp:

  

  Playing games while chowing..

  

  a couple hours later...

  

• Bike box or bag?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years, 11 months

  

  You can be, and are incredibly and extraordinarily lucky.

  Have you seen the way they handle it? I've caught a glimpse of my bike bag being thrown around like a rag dolls to the plane's hold.

  Were the people who have had their bikes ruined using dropout spacers? That's the most important thing. No amount of bubble wrap in the world will stop your frame or fork from getting bent if they decide to throw a heavy suitcase on top of your bike or something.

  I know my bike gets thrown around, doesn't bother me much as everything on it is heavy and made of solid metal...

  I'm sure it goes without saying that not every bike can handle this treatment. Anything with cables/gears/nice paintjobs requires quite a bit more protection.

• Bike box or bag?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years, 11 months

  

  I must just be incredibly lucky then..

• Bike box or bag?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years, 11 months

  

  My bag weighs less than .5 kg and rolls up into something smaller than a sleeping bag. It offers no protection but I've taken it on more than a dozen flights and suffered nothing worse than scratches.

  Bikes aren't really thaaaaat fragile..

• Bike box or bag?

  in Cycle Touring and Bikepacking • 12 years, 11 months

  

  I've flown with my bike in a soft bag a few times. I've even managed to check it as normal baggage with no fragile tags or anything. It's gotten a little scratched but that's it and I couldn't care less about scratches. Just make sure you use drop out spacers and put the bike in upside down so the chainring doesn't tear out the bottom.

  What I like about it is that if you pack light enough you can throw the bike bag in a rucksack/messenger bag and ride away from the airport. That's a feeling that just can't be beat.

  Having said that I ride a brakeless steel fixed gear. If I was traveling with a bling carbon racing machine it would be a hard padded box all the way.