a very good friend of mine is Bermudan. she's been more concerned about this one than I can remember ever happening before. she's been offline for a day.
either the mac thinks your primary volume is a sparse logical volume, you are trying to install over your install media, or something else weird is going on. I'd suggest creating a usb install drive and booting from that to do your upgrade and check things out. Disk utility should tell you what's wrong.
You've done something to anger Steve Jobs, because I've done some weird shit to my computers over the years and have never had the issues you do.
I don't know that full suspension is really what you want if you're mostly going to be riding bike paths, but this looks like a decent buy:
http://santabarbara.craigslist.org/bik/4710459767.html
The lower end you go, the more it will weigh, and the less good the suspension will do you.
i posted a link to a tarp in the what did buy thread you might find interesting.
All the camping gear I have is either 25 years old, designed for a big family, or both.
For a cook stove, I'd look at MSR and Jetboil. I'd probably use an aeropress for coffee, and some hand coffee grinder...
http://www.dreamhost.com/r.cgi?1251264
or use promo code headcase
It's $97 off 1 or 2 years service from them. I checked, and I don't profit when I give that big a discount