Winter Reading: Pacific Coast '04 Travelog

Me and another guy rode the Pacific Coast from Nanaimo, BC to Imperial
Beach, CA. last summer, mostly
credit card style, but with occasional camping.

Here's the log for anyone who needs to kill a few hours until springtime.

http://www.officebears.com/cycling/t...icCoast04.html

-bob

Bob Clemons [on Sun, 06 Mar 2005 13:11:57 -0500] wrote:

Me and another guy rode the Pacific Coast [...]
http://www.officebears.com/cycling/t...icCoast04.html

Excellent, Bob! This looks very impressive!
Wonderful to see ride reports from an area I only know from TV and tales.
Great job...thanks for sharing.

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Erick
Low Countries By Bike
http://lowcountriesbybike.info/

Very nicely done! Thanks. I am riding a small section of the coast
this summer (Palo Alto to SLO) and am hungry for information. I had
not thought of shipping from bike shop to bike shop. How did that work
out?

Tom

Tom wrote:

... I had
not thought of shipping from bike shop to bike shop. How did that work
out?

Tom



It worked out fairly well. It costs quite a bit more to ship your bike
than to carry it on a plane,
but it is seems more likely that it will arrive in good shape. If
something does get broken, it's already
at a bike shop. I've had some minor scratch-type damage but nothing
significant. Most shops
charge about $25 to pack up a bike and about $45 to reassemble one, plus
there's the cost of shipping--it cost $83 to pack and ship one bike back
to Maryland from San Diego.
Of course, you can always save a few bucks by doing the local packing
and reassembly yourself.

Not all bike shops are willing to do this kind of business, but usually
the bigger ones are. I generally go to
the net and pick the place with the best web site...and call them
several times to make sure that they know
that my bike is coming and when I'm coming to pick it up. I've had
pretty good luck with that so far.

-bob

Bob Clemons wrote:

Me and another guy rode the Pacific Coast from Nanaimo, BC to Imperial
Beach, CA. last summer, mostly
credit card style, but with occasional camping.

Here's the log for anyone who needs to kill a few hours until springtime.

http://www.officebears.com/cycling/t...icCoast04.html


Excellent presentation - took me back. Thanks.

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Integrity is obvious.
The lack of it is common.
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