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author: marco
categories:
- Cycling General
date: "2003-06-08T14:08:00Z"
title: Short Ride
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Not much going on, today. Rete, my not-so-faithful webserver, choked to death last night after a (silly) attempt to apt-get upgrade – and I spent most of the morning trying to resuscitate. In the end, I installed RedHat 8.0 on the old disk, and got to do a minimal ride in the afternoon.

Since life is treating me well, I decided to pamper myself (Q: isn’t that what you do when life is NOT treating you well?) and went to the bike store to pick up some gear. And there I was again, having to decide where to go…

Palo Alto Bicycles  
\+ has the best selection I have seen so far – including my beautiful Lemond (and its successor)  
 – the staff is spotty in courtesy and knowledge, customers pretentious and too rich (interestingly the nice guys are the good bikers)

Bicycle Outfitters  
\+ dedicated to biking in general. They even used to close on Sundays because they wanted to ride!  
 – they were closed on Sundays. Had to buy my bike elsewhere

Chain Reaction Bicycles  
\+ low cost  
 – poor selection on high end

I ended up going to Chain Reaction. Bought silly stuff (socks, bandanna). Sigh!