Coronavirus effect on bike hobby?

[Freqman1]

I officially begin telework tomorrow. Not real sure how that will work out with so many projects waiting!

 

[Barto]

As a technical aircraft trainer, my job is in the classroom with people from all over the world almost every week! until last week, I had a stupid teaching schedule - as of a few minuets ago...I now have three 5 day classes and a one day WebEx on my schedule. Whoa, I'm going to try to convert some to FAM classes and attempt WebEx's but who knows.... I'm supposed to retire end of the summer but Stocks and 401 are now a concern!

 

[Freqman1]

I think we are about to stress test the www.!

 

[Bikerider007]

Only about 12 riders showed for our monthly ride yesterday and there were fewer people out & about generally, which was great!


Things will slow a bit in the market. People are hanging on to their money until things stabilize. Unless

As a technical aircraft trainer, my job is in the classroom with people from all over the world almost every week! until last week, I had a stupid teaching schedule - as of a few minuets ago...I now have three 5 day classes and a one day WebEx on my schedule. Whoa, I'm going to try to convert some to FAM classes and attempt WebEx's but who knows.... I'm supposed to retire end of the summer but Stocks and 401 are now a concern!

I've been remote for the last 10+ years. I'm 15 or so years away from retiring (or taking a simple job I love) but did call and discuss my 401k last week. I had to wait on hold over an hour. They were being swamped.

This may get more jobs to be remote, many that go to work dont really need to be there.

 

[kreika]

Here’s some corona info. This is world wide stats.

Here’s some H1N1 info. Just stats for USA.

Here’s the common flu/influenza info. Again this is world wide.

 

[gkeep]

Leave it to the Aussies...enjoy.

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[jimbo53]

Working on my bikes is a great thing to help handle stress even before COVID-19. Now it's even more important. It's important to have something to occupy your hands and mind and give you a physical energy release during such a stressful event as we are dealing with for the unknown and unforeseen future and bike are doing it for me. I'm fortunate in that I have a beautiful 12 mile green-way close by and can ride my bike to get there. Bike riding is the perfect pandemic exercise. Prayers to all that are struggling with this viral disaster. Looks like we're going to be into this for a long time.

 

[oldfart36]

Main thing that concerns me is it might make "pickin" rough for a while. Spooked people are less likely to be as welcoming.

 

[bikewhorder]

Well I've officially been furloughed at work until further notice. I build custom yachts for the Mega rich. My job is extremely sensitive to changes in the economy. When it's good I'm working all the overtime I can handle and when it's bad I don't have a job. Recently I've been working all the overtime I could handle. The current project is supposedly halted because of disruptions in the supply chain. A similar thing happened in 2008 and that 70ft sailboat ended up mothballed for 11 years before it was sold half finished for pennies on the dollar. It's pretty cool work and it's a real bummer when things like this happen after putting so much effort into something. This is what I was making up until today.

 

[dfa242]

Bummer Chris - sorry about that.
Nice boat - kinda' looks like a Hinckley.