My "Dental Plan" Realized...
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My "Dental Plan" Realized...
For decades I have planned to bike to a dentist appointment before work. Today was that day. My new dentist is a mile from my new office...but it's a little riskier to lock a bike outside in that neighborhood. I now own a folding bike and a Rhinowalk bike bag. So I brought the bike in with me!
Here's a photo of the bag on the bike, and the bike in the bag in the waiting room.
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Here's a photo of the bag on the bike, and the bike in the bag in the waiting room.
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Good for you! I did that too when I had to have a crown put back on.
Folded the Broomie outside, carried it in an sat in the waiting room. When it was my turn I carried it into the room and stuck it in a corner. Some questions about it, favorable remarks then down to business.
Folded the Broomie outside, carried it in an sat in the waiting room. When it was my turn I carried it into the room and stuck it in a corner. Some questions about it, favorable remarks then down to business.
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That's a little different, as I wouldn't plan more than a year, even maybe not that long. I went to a new barber yesterday with my Kwiggle without really planning it, although that's easier than any doctor appointment, I would think.
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Here in Tokyo I could have left the bike, bags, and my cell phone outside, and found them still there after a long treatment. I always take myself or my kids to the dentist by bicycle, car parking here is scarce, and expensive when you can find it.
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Being able ta put your bike in a bag would certainly make it easier when taking it into the pawn shop ta pay your dental bill... Ha
Nice Bike!
Nice Bike!
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If you look carefully, you'll see my Bike Friday pakiT folded up in my dentist's waiting room. Hint: next to the chairs.
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My dentist's office is about 20 miles away, and the roads are mostly highway, so I wish I had the option to bike ride there.
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But this new location and ride was so easy I just so excited to do it.
That Kwiggle folds crazy small!
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I ride my folder to the dentist's office every day... it's *my* office! I get my dental work done here too... by a colleague, not me.
My commute is 50 miles each way (not sustainable by bike alone), but the folding bike accounts for about 8 miles a day, with the rest being our local heavy rail (METRA). I've been doing this year-round in Chicago for over 20 years.
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Folder comfortably stashed in my office!
My commute is 50 miles each way (not sustainable by bike alone), but the folding bike accounts for about 8 miles a day, with the rest being our local heavy rail (METRA). I've been doing this year-round in Chicago for over 20 years.
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Folder comfortably stashed in my office!
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I ride my folder to the dentist's office every day... it's *my* office! I get my dental work done here too... by a colleague, not me.
My commute is 50 miles each way (not sustainable by bike alone), but the folding bike accounts for about 8 miles a day, with the rest being our local heavy rail (METRA). I've been doing this year-round in Chicago for over 20 years.
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Folder comfortably stashed in my office!
My commute is 50 miles each way (not sustainable by bike alone), but the folding bike accounts for about 8 miles a day, with the rest being our local heavy rail (METRA). I've been doing this year-round in Chicago for over 20 years.
![](https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/bikeforums.net-vbulletin/1500x2000/weeks_office_230414_8d3fade2a87c86c3852dacccce22fcc1f336f4b3.jpg)
Folder comfortably stashed in my office!
Salute! I shoulda biked today to my office, and I'm in California!
FWIW, I generally will just let me patient leave their bike in my waiting room.
We have a mix of folders and nonfolders.
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I've honestly never seen this before.
My endodontist (JJJ on dentaltown) uses an X-stab sometimes for guided endo.
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It's not for clinical work. I was using it to check calibration of electronic apex locators in extracted teeth. ![Innocent](images/smilies/innocent.gif)
We're doing some guided procedures in my department. We also have "Gentle Wave" and two kinds of laser devices.
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![Innocent](images/smilies/innocent.gif)
We're doing some guided procedures in my department. We also have "Gentle Wave" and two kinds of laser devices.
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I usually ride my bike to the dentist, but it is in a low crime rate neighborhood, no concerns about leaving it locked outside to the rack.
That said, I usually use my errand bike for that, a bike that I paid $5 USD for over a decade ago at a garage sale, it took two days of work and about $50 to turn it into a good reliable ridable bike. But it is so rusty that most thieves in my community would be embarrassed to steal it.
That said, I usually use my errand bike for that, a bike that I paid $5 USD for over a decade ago at a garage sale, it took two days of work and about $50 to turn it into a good reliable ridable bike. But it is so rusty that most thieves in my community would be embarrassed to steal it.
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Either way, salute!
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I usually ride my bike to the dentist, but it is in a low crime rate neighborhood, no concerns about leaving it locked outside to the rack.
That said, I usually use my errand bike for that, a bike that I paid $5 USD for over a decade ago at a garage sale, it took two days of work and about $50 to turn it into a good reliable ridable bike. But it is so rusty that most thieves in my community would be embarrassed to steal it.
That said, I usually use my errand bike for that, a bike that I paid $5 USD for over a decade ago at a garage sale, it took two days of work and about $50 to turn it into a good reliable ridable bike. But it is so rusty that most thieves in my community would be embarrassed to steal it.
I'm sorta working on an errand bike. Got a $40 hybrid off craigslist. Popping on a $16 rack, $27 seat, and a $25 tire (and some replacement tubes).
It's sorta nice not having to worry about anyone stealing your bike.
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When I went to college, a friend had a child's bike, 20 inch wheels, very rusty. He did not even lock it up, nobody stole if for his freshman year. Then, tire blew. He put a new tire on it and continued to not lock it, the tire gave it value, was stolen within a week.
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Be careful you do not make it look too nice.
When I went to college, a friend had a child's bike, 20 inch wheels, very rusty. He did not even lock it up, nobody stole if for his freshman year. Then, tire blew. He put a new tire on it and continued to not lock it, the tire gave it value, was stolen within a week.
When I went to college, a friend had a child's bike, 20 inch wheels, very rusty. He did not even lock it up, nobody stole if for his freshman year. Then, tire blew. He put a new tire on it and continued to not lock it, the tire gave it value, was stolen within a week.
My plan is to ride it for a few months, and flip it (sell it for what I bought it for plus additional costs).
Mainly, I want to justify to myself and my wife that I'll stick to riding to work.
Today, I came on my Brompton, but I sorta like a much less fancy bike that I can leave outside.
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haha omg, that's amazing. good for you!