In a word, I fricking love the thing. The only thing that makes me sad is when I get my medium saddlesack to carry stuff to school in, I won't be able to put this on the front of the Uni - the front brake wire gets in the way.
Regardless, it's a fantastic bag - I'd recommend it to anyone who needs a relatively small, yet still holds a bunch, but is kinda cheap saddle bag while there are still bags to be had.
Anyway, I just went from 28c's back to 38's - it's like riding on pillows, and it doesn't slow me down much. They do allow me to hit a bunch of roads I'd otherwise have missed - which I did on my trip tonight. Pretty amazing stuff I saw. For instance:
Fricking awesome.
Anyway, this bike is breaking in more and more as I go along (now about 500 miles into my B17, and about 200 miles into my new drop bars) and it is getting just more and more comfy. Matter of fact, with a couple of solutions (i.e. tightening the perpetually loosening BB) I could see myself taking this thing on rather long trips.
Completely unrelated - check this out:
Witnesses: Fleeing man run over by cop cruiser
Officer also fired Taser from car
A Pensacola police officer was placed on administrative leave Saturday after his cruiser ran over and killed a young man in Brownsville.
Pensacola Police Department Chief John W. Mathis said Officer Jerald Ard, 35, had been placed on administrative leave pending the results of an investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
"It's obviously a very tragic and unfortunate incident," Mathis said. "My heart goes out to the subject in this case and his family. We'll just have to see how this plays out."
Ard saw a suspicious man at a construction site about 1:50 a.m. Saturday while he was on routine patrol near Cervantes and T streets, a police department news release said.
The man left the scene on a bicycle and Ard pursued, attempting to stop him by using verbal commands and his vehicle's blue lights, the release said.
The officer also tried to shock the fleeing man with a Taser stun gun, according to the release.
After the Taser was fired, the man turned into the parking lot of a vacant business near R Street, crashed his bicycle, and was run over by the pursuing police car, according to the release.
The man, who remained unidentified Saturday evening, was pinned beneath the car and later pronounced dead at the scene.
Kristen Perezluha, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, said investigators were not ready to release additional details about the death.
Perezluha said her agency will handle the "use-of-force" aspect of the case, and the Florida Highway Patrol will investigate the incident.
"We're handling it the same way we handle officer-involved shootings," she said. "Generally, we complete our investigation and turn the information over to the State Attorney's Office."
Investigation continues
Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille said his office was contacted Saturday morning and will await the results of the investigation before deciding whether charges should be filed against Ard.
For more than four hours Saturday morning, investigators took photographs and measurements and placed small cones along the road and the grass to mark the paths taken by the bicyclist and the police cruiser.
As many as a half dozen patrons attending a concert across the street at Sluggo's said they saw Ard pursuing a young black man with dreadlocks on a bicycle eastbound on Cervantes Street shortly before 2 a.m.
Witnesses said they saw Ard fire a stun gun out the window of his moving cruiser at the fleeing suspect immediately before the incident.
Jamison Boler was seated outside with at least seven friends when they saw the blue lights of the police car, then noticed the man on a bike heading east, toward the Pace Boulevard intersection.
"The man on the bike was on the sidewalk, boogeying down, trying to get away," Boler said. "The policeman fired a Taser out the window. The guy (on the bike) made a U-turn and ditched the bicycle and kind of did a somersault on the ground.
"Not two seconds later, the cop car just ran over him," Boler said. "The cop ran up on the curb and hopped out of the car and said, 'Where are you at?' The guy was still underneath his car. You can still see his red shoe sticking out."
Disputing reports
Another witness, David Taylor, 25, said the bicyclist, who appeared to be a teenager, was dragged after being stuck beneath the police car. His account differed from the police news release, which stated that Ard fired the Taser but did not hit the man. He also said Ard had not activated his siren. Taylor also said he never heard Ard shouting at the man.
"The kid fell off the bike (after being shocked with a stun gun) and then was stumbling because of the momentum," Taylor said. "It was probably about 10 to 15 feet that the man was drug."
The police car came to a stop about 35 feet from the man's bicycle. The victim remained pinned beneath the car for more than three hours before the vehicle was removed and his body was taken away.
Police cordoned off the block of Cervantes as a crowd of concertgoers and passersby looked on.
The police later moved the crime scene tape farther from the street because they said the onlookers were hampering the investigation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAKfcsF4do
unbelievable.
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