On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 at 23:14 GMT, mfhor (aka Bruce)
was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea:
> Have you ever seen ground staff *hurling* bike boxes onto the conveyer
> on the tarmac? It's a sight to behold, through the porthole 10 mins from
> takeoff, running late (them, not me), especially when that particular
> box is sure as hell yours.
>
> How do they propose to keep your bike in working order, and without
> substantial chunks of paint missing WITH NO BOX OR PROTECTION AT ALL?
> Be afraid, be very afraid . . .
As one of the poor guys who unloaded bikes from BV trucks at the last
GVBR:
I came to hate boxed bikes. Or bikes with bubble wrap everywhere. I
also noted that BV neglected to tell people that they were to
*tighten* up the handlebars when they were turned.
The smoothest bikes, that caused the least pain, and could just be
rolled out down the ramp? The free standing ones.
The ones that were boxed? Had to be picked up, usually had no handles,
usually things rattling all over the place. Quite a few boxes were
dropped on the truck floor, and/or scraped across the corugated floor,
as people fought with the damn things -- I'd hate to see the state of
their forks. I wore a staple, and because it was hot and my blood was
flowing, I lost a heck of a lot of blood for such a small cut. Didn't
notice until it got all over my clothes
The bubble wrapped ones? Had to be lifted, because couldn't be rolled,
as the bubble wrap got tangled, and probably bent a few derailleurs.
Usually didn't have anything convenient to hold, and posed a hazard as
they were being passed from one volunteer to the next, if one's finger
got stuck in a place it shouldn't have.
FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR FELLOW RIDERS, JUST LET YOUR BIKE BE NAKED!
--
TimC --
http://astronomy.swin.edu.au/staff/tconnors/
To bowl a maiden over:
i. Remove Cover and Extra Cover.
ii. Move fine leg to square leg.
Hmm, I can't seem to think of a way to finish this. --Sid on RHOD
