It's amazing, it got cold enough last night that I got out one of my new pairs of sweat pants and even put on a new sweatshirt too for a bit. My new sleeping bag felt great, too.
I got into serious nerding out reading about Brompton folding bikes. I should be able to pick up the Burley bracket today from the bike shop (it's been about a week) and I really want to get my Mobic road-worthy so I can hand my main bike off to the bike shop for wheel truing, new brake cables, and if anything else needs doing for them to go ahead and do it.
But that shop is also a Brompton dealer and I'm tempted to take a test ride on one. I'd be interested in their base model, a "mere" $1200 or so out the door. If I end up in a rented room or a living in a small office downtown, a folding bike will be the only game in town. The thing with the Brompton is, not only are they of very high quality, but they fold up very small and there's even a bag you can get to put one in, so people see "large bag holding something, suits maybe" rather than "bike".
So much of this is mind games. For instance, you're not generally allowed to take a backpack into a store, but you can take a $120 Chrome messenger bag in is just fine. Maybe the assumption is a messenger bag = a laptop in there, or office paperwork or something. I need to find mine, it's stuffed in a box somewhere I think.
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