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Time to pick up yet another bag for the train commute. Mostly iPad and some little stuff. The Coach leather bag lasted 6 months before needing to go in for service for shoddy work and the Tumi bag has pretty much fallen apart but I haven't bothered getting it serviced. Anyone have recommendations for a nice leather bag that have impressed the Briefcase/bags and the murse devotees?

Happy Birthday Chris.

Finally have the bike set up to the way I like it. Upgraded to the 2013 SRAM Red front derailleur to take advantage of the yaw control and have the seat setup up properly thanks to Chris' input. Should be a nice long ride. Just a couple of weeks to go. Thanks everyone for all the donations.

Luckily we have not really had any heat up here yet. My last three rides have actually been kind of chilly. I hope it stays this way for as long as possible.

1st and 3rd 70-200 w/ the 2x so 400 f5.6. Surely that is what this set up is intended for, flowers at 4 feet. The middle one has the 35 f1.4 because that is what I had on when I walked up to the flower.

Decided to try out the Nikon 2x at the neighborhood gardens.

Did a short 15 mile ride this morning to try out the new Compact crank. Huge difference. On the way back I kept looking for the hill climb that always kills me and realized by the time I got back to my truck that I had done it without even noticing. It does make much of the little ring fairly useless as the hills around here do not really need much gearing with the compact. Destroyed my PRs and averaged over 17MPH for this ride which made me happy. Wind was really tough as the, I think Cottonwood trees, were pouring shit down that was peppering my eyes the whole way. I need some riding glasses as my Maui Jim Ti do not give enough eye protection.

Happy Birthday Ari. Hope it is a great one.

Hey TJKurita, you still have your sweet custom HD600 amp?

I really like that pic CJ.

Happy Birthday Shelly.

These lockers are over $200 per year so I doubt people are paying to store run down bikes in them.

Looks like the commute might not be happening. The transit authority is telling me they have no lockers available. I have never seen a single person park a bike in the 30+ lockers but I guess they were all rented for someone to have the opportunity to ride their bike at some point.

Yeah, Adrian gives a lot of evil eye pictures for someone that couldn't take out a catcoon.

I would think someone as tall as you would not be comfortable driving the LR4. I know the oversized steering wheel that won't go high enough makes them uncomfortable for me when I have them as rentals.

Seem like a great group of people. I got the laptop sleeve, cell phone case and key strap as well. I might pick up one of their smaller bags as well.

That is what I am thinking. It still seems like it would be harder for them to get the perfect spacer to allow for proper chain alignment than it would to order the right part.

Unfortunately the yellow is just on the flap, the bag interior is all black. Been watching the strap training video trying to figure out how to wear this thing. Interesting people at Bailey.

I have a question for the knowledgeable bike people here. I ordered the FSA K-Light BBRight compact crankset for my Cervelo R5. I stopped by today to see if the parts were in and what they had was the K-Light EVO 386 crankset and a story from the service manager telling me that they needed to order the spacer to make it work on the bike but that is the way FSA does it now. I called BS as the BBRight is specific and only works with a BBRight crankset not another random crankset with a spacer installed. If I knew more about the BBRight technology I would probably no more about whether this is a bad idea but it seems to be they ordered the wrong part and are just hoping to patch it with spacers and I will no longer have the BBRight function, whatever that is and maybe a weaker crankset since it is not fit to the bike. Should I tell them to start over or am I misunderstanding all of this? Also got the Bailey Bike Works bag. Really nice. I could have done without the yellow raincoat inside flap but otherwise pretty happy.

I was hoping to do my mini commute this week but WMATA has not gotten back to me about my rented locker. They ask you to e-mail them your contact info but you never get any response. Maybe they are surprised someone is actually willing to pay them for a locker when you can park at a rack for free.

I guess you are not riding today Nate because of the foot? It was a great ride and Chris showed me why I am having such trouble with the saddle so I think I might be able to make for a more comfortable ride. Got over 17 miles today and only almost t-boned an asian girl and almost fell over at a stop light when a car didn't give me enough room to pass. Not a bad ride at all.

Chris and I got a great ride right into the District.

I am around tomorrow if you think you want to go on a short ride somewhere around Alexandria.

I like how it was not physically possible to fit Brent's whole head in the shot.

Trying the Toupe RBX Expert for the extra padding. Seat comfort is the main thing that keeps me from riding more miles.