{"id":17542,"date":"2013-09-15T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=17542"},"modified":"2013-09-15T23:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T03:02:36","slug":"jamis-nova-crateworks-pro-xl-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/jamis-nova-crateworks-pro-xl-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamis Nova + CrateWorks Pro XL-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/acquired_stuff\/2007_jamis_nova\/IMG_7542.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Jamis Nova partially-packed into a CrateWorks Pro XL-C bike box.\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/104584-2\/IMG_7542.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d previously had plans to ship a bicycle out to California for a trip visiting friends, but ended up cancelling this part after beginning to pack my bike. A buddy of mine, <a href=\"http:\/\/love2mountainbike.blogspot.com\/\">Tom Lining<\/a>, was nice enough to let me borrow the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crateworks.com\/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&amp;Product_Code=Pro_XLC&amp;Store_Code=crateworks\">CrateWorks Pro XL-C<\/a> box which he used on a recent trip to Germany for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bike-fourpeaks.de\/\">Bike 4 Peaks<\/a>. This would have worked out rather well, but mid-packing I came to the realization that my trip will likely be much less stressful if I don&#8217;t bring a bike.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;d be nice to have a bike out in San Francisco and people to ride with, these downsides felt overwhelming and kept me from wanting to bring it.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: square;\">\n<li>Packing the bike: If I do this wrong, it&#8217;ll get damaged, either outbound or inbound.<\/li>\n<li>Unpacking the bike: I&#8217;d really prefer to have my full suite of tools for bike assembly. Without this I&#8217;ll have to make do with a multitool and whatever I pack.<\/li>\n<li>Clothes: I&#8217;ll also have to fit in bike clothes, shoes, helmet, gloves, glasses, bottles, etc.<\/li>\n<li>The City: I&#8217;m not at all familiar with road riding, much less in an urban area. If I wasn&#8217;t certain to have someone to ride with I&#8217;d be very apprehensive about going out myself.<\/li>\n<li>Routes: I don&#8217;t know any good cycling routes in the area, and it&#8217;d be very complicated to find some if I can&#8217;t find people to ride with. Thus, my desire for lengthier (2-4 hour) rides each day would likely not be met.<\/li>\n<li>Insurance: Should something go wrong, do I really want to have to deal with insurance and prove that I didn&#8217;t screw up? And what if I did?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Shipping via <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeflights.com\/\">BikeFlights.com<\/a> was quoted at a very reasonable $170-ish (round trip) with $3000 insurance, but that&#8217;s still $170 I don&#8217;t have to spend. I&#8217;d consider this same setup (a CrateWorks box + BikeFlights.com) again in the future should I need to ship a bike. It seems like a good setup, but for this trip&#8230; I think I&#8217;ll stick to walking \/ hiking, and maybe renting a bike for a short poke around the city.<\/p>\n<p>Just simply coming to the decision that not bring a bike was for the best made me feel more relaxed. And that&#8217;s what vacations are about, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d previously had plans to ship a bicycle out to California for a trip visiting friends, but ended up cancelling this part after beginning to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2013\/09\/15\/jamis-nova-crateworks-pro-xl-c\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jamis Nova + CrateWorks Pro XL-C<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-travel","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17543,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17542\/revisions\/17543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}