What do the Germans know?

Does it really take four of you clowns (and you personally three times!) to tell me I got a technical detail wrong? (Never mind that I set up the wrong technical detail as a trap for you lot.) You fellows must have a lot of time to waste.

Andre Jute


On Tuesday, October 28, 2014 8:57:42 PM UTC, Radey Shouman wrote:
Andre Jute ddd writes:

On Sunday, October 26, 2014 10:33:28 PM UTC, Andre Jute wrote:

Pierced Steel Plank, PSP. An innocent like you from a civilized
university town wouldn't recognize some of the "roads" on the map of
Africa as roads. A competent specialist can even in the rainy season,
given only that nobody shoots at him that day to cause a delay, cover
50 miles between dawn and dusk (about 20 hours) on even the worst of
these "roads", if he has the right tools and enough experienced men.

Well, well, well, if we don't have a whole dumb**** of jumped-up
techies falling for my little troll of "(about 20 hours)". Yo, slow
learners, I've been there, and you haven't. I originally had a phrase
in the parenthesis about the length of the predawn and postdusk
twilight, but took it out in consideration of your observable lack of
subtlety and good faith, in short to let you make fools of yourselves
by your unwarranted assumptions and your petty spite. For a start,
Johannesburg is thousands of miles from where I was talking about, and
Cape Town is another thousand miles further away. (Now these slow
learners object that from Cape Town to Johannesburg is on 986 miles or
whatever.) How do idiots like you ever manage to cross the street
without getting run over?

Fixed your atrocious line breaks.

You are a silly man, Andre Jute. We were giving you the benefit of the
doubt by using southerly points -- wasted on you, of course. The closer
one comes to the equator the shorter the twilight, so 20 hours of even
marginally usable daylight is an absurd notion anywhere in Africa.

You should have just changed your setting to the Siberian taiga.
Perhaps it's not too late.

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On Sunday, October 26, 2014 9:16:50 PM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 10/26/2014 3:43 PM, jbeattie wrote:
ported the hard goods that have lower margins.

Sierra Designs had a flagship store in Palo Alto, too -- is that gone?

Long gone.
http://archives.pahistory.org/cgi-bin/getimage.exe?CISOROOT=/PAHA&CISOPTR=1604&DMSCALE=100.00000&DMWIDTH=600&DM HEIGHT=600&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=%22Sierra%20Designs% 20%28Palo%20Alto%2C%20Calif.%29%22&REC=1&DMTHUMB=1 &DMROTATE=0

I can't believe Western Mountaineering is gone. I still have one of
their down bags that I bought in 1975.

They moved a couple of times, first to San Jose Town and Country, then,
when that was torn down, for Santana Row, to somewhere else (I never
went to that store). WM had a store in Santa Cruz too, that became
another mountaineering store for a while but is now gone as well. There
was also the "Co-op" in Mountain View which sold camping equipment and
XC skis adjacent to the supermarket. No more North Face stores either.
Lombardi in San Francisco just announced that they are closing.

Sports Basement is a pretty big store with locations in Sunnyvale,
Campbell, and San Francisco and they are lot more into supporting
various sporting events and Bike to Work day than REI. They have a big
bicycle department. Last time I was there it seemed like Jamis and
Cannondale were their major brands. See
http://community.sportsbasement.com/archives/category/cycling/. But
not many people are buying Cannondale anymore.

Marmot closed a year or two ago. Any Mountain closed their flagship
Cupertino store which was torn down and there is now a new building
there (leased to Apple of course). Any Mountain has a smaller store in a
west San Jose shopping center.

Seriously, I would have thought that with all the money and pretense in the SCV, you guys would have a multitude of high-gloss sporting good stores, bike stores, every imaginable kind of store.

You would think that, but you would be wrong. Most recreational riders
with a lot of money are buying a Specialized or Trek CF bicycle from a
small tied shop. For a commute bicycle you go to REI.

REI has a lot of stores. When I first moved to the area in 1979 you had
to go to Berkeley to go to REI. Then REI opened a store in Cupertino
(now closed) but they have stores in San Francisco, San Carlos, Mountain
View, San Jose, and Fremont, as well as some in the outer reaches of the
east bay . I heard a rumor that the Fremont store is closing but I think
it's still there. REI was hurting a lot during the recession.

Not to gloat (because I'm not sure this is a good thing), we are getting an Evo store in Portland. http://tinyurl.com/lvw7jtf

It's going in right next to Next Adventure and a mile away from US Outdoor store and REI. I hope it doesn't crush Next Adventure, which is a really Portland-ish store, particularly the used department in the basement. It's like Dante's fourth ring of sport's gear hell. https://www.flickr.com/photos/philaz...-fQq7QU-7LPQae

-- Jay Beattie.

On 10/31/2014 11:43 AM, jbeattie wrote:

snip

Not to gloat (because I'm not sure this is a good thing), we are getting an Evo store in Portland. http://tinyurl.com/lvw7jtf

It's going in right next to Next Adventure and a mile away from US Outdoor store and REI. I hope it doesn't crush Next Adventure, which is a really Portland-ish store, particularly the used department in the basement. It's like Dante's fourth ring of sport's gear hell. https://www.flickr.com/photos/philaz...-fQq7QU-7LPQae

We'll take one.

The big problem with REI is that they have de-emphasized equipment in
favor of clothing because the margins are so much higher on clothing.
But at least their bicycle department is larger than most LBSes.