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Saturday, January 5, 2008
NASCAR TV Coverage Starts On Monday, Are You Ready?
Ready or not, here they come! The NASCAR TV partners are slowly working their way back into your living room with pre-Daytona programming that starts on Monday, January 7th.
The appetizer for this thirty-nine course NASCAR meal is SPEED's almost daily 7PM Eastern Time coverage of testing and the Charlotte Media Tour. The network also throws additional Sunday NASCAR coverage into the always interesting SPEED Report. Drew and Nicole have become cult figures to many race fans. Here is a hint, it's not about Drew.
ESPN has stepped-up and thrown their surprise dish into the mix with the sudden addition of six classic Daytona 500 highlight shows airing on Mondays at 2PM Eastern Time. Clearly intended to be recorded, ESPN is continuing their "across all platforms" approach to NASCAR by asking viewers to rate their favorite race on ESPN.com's NASCAR page.
After the February live Nationwide Race from Daytona airs on ESPN2, the ESPN Classic guys will then play back all six Daytona 500 programs in the order chosen by the fans. It might seem to be a little too late to some, but it's a start. ESPN Classic could be a valuable tool for the company as the NASCAR season progresses.
Instead of lonely Bob Dillner wandering around Daytona with a camera crew and a microphone, SPEED has taken their testing coverage to a new level this season. The network will bring in their most popular show host John Roberts, and then add Larry McReynolds and Jeff Hammond into the mix along with Dillner.
While that group will cover Sprint Cup testing, Roberts will be joined by Phil Parsons and Ray Dunlap as the network extends testing coverage to both the Nationwide and Craftsman Truck Series. Roberts will also host coverage of the interesting Charlotte Media Tour, which is a junket for NASCAR reporters that visits the various race shops.
The Daly Planet is aware that NASCAR Now will be returning to ESPN2 at 6PM Eastern on Monday, February 4th. What the network has not announced is who will be the two co-hosts for the series in 2008. Luckily, there are several in-house "talent" at ESPN who enjoy NASCAR and could do a very good job.
So, here we go again. The SPEED coverage is called NASCAR Pre-Season Thunder, and ties-in with the fact that NASCAR opens the tracks for fans to watch testing. The Fan Zone at Daytona is truly a unique experience for that purpose.
Hopefully, we will see some testing info creep onto the ESPN News Network between all the playoff and Super Bowl hype. Since many viewers have seen Mike Massaro covering the NFL Playoffs for ESPN's SportsCenter and other programs, we know that Mike is alive and well and not being forced to badger Eli Manning like Dale Junior.
Are you ready for on-track action, and will you be watching SPEED's testing coverage? This is an all-COT season, with Gibbs Racing's cars on the track with Toyota under the hood. The real faces of NASCAR and the real stories of the off-season should be just a part of next week's kick-off of the 2008 season.
The Daly Planet welcomes comments from readers. Simply click on the COMMENTS button below, or email firstname.lastname@example.com if you wish not to be published. Thanks for hanging with us during the past eleven months.
34 comments:
- TexasRaceLady said...
You bet I'm ready. I'll be front and center for the testing reports because it sounds as if SPEED will have the front line crew ready to go. Testing is about as exciting as watching paint dry, but it will be CARS ON THE TRACK!
As far as the 500 re-airs, I have the most interesting already on file --- the 76, 79, and 98. I may tune in for the first NASCAR NOW, but if the host is Klueless, I'll be gone.
- January 5, 2008 at 10:01 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD, when will we know the host of NASCAR Now?
- January 6, 2008 at 12:12 AM
- Anonymous said...
I will probably watch, as this might be the only coverage all year that is free of 'draft trackers' and the other various errata that clutter the screen while cars are on the track. It's also the first chance to see drivers with their new teams, etc. Since I am sure that coverage will go downhill from there, this might be the highlight of the season.
- January 6, 2008 at 7:21 AM
- Anonymous said...
I am ready.
Thank you, SPEED. Thank you, Fox.
TNT and ABC/ESPN: Watch and learn how it is done. Please.
- January 6, 2008 at 9:47 AM
- Newracefan said...
I'm more than ready the Speed Report (yes JD it's all about Nicole ;) was something but definitely not enough. I starting watching other shows on Speed just to hear Mike Joy's (Barrett Jackson)and Krista Voda's (motocross) voice, maybe that's what ESPN was trying to do with Brent and Suzy although that obviously backfired because Mike and Krista actually knew what they were talking about. Also no DVR required since Speed gets it and waits till 7p to air Preseason Thunder. On the East coast many people are home by then and possibly even finished dinner and unlike Nascar Now which always required DVR if I could find it at all, besides I wouldn't be fast forwarding Speed anyway. I'll never know if ESPN throws in anything about Nascar in its news reports as I won't be watching so those who do will have to post and let me know.
- January 6, 2008 at 10:09 AM
- Anonymous said...
Oh yes, I will watch SPEED's coverage of testing and the media tour.
I don't have ESPN News or Classic. I don't watch any of the talk shows on ESPN/ESPN2.
I don't watch SPEED Report. I can read the news elsewhere instead of those two reading it to me. The SPEED forum has a huge discussion of Nicole. I've read some of it. Amusing, it's bashing her appearance and guys on cleavage watch. :)
- January 6, 2008 at 11:22 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
I think it says something about the SPEEDtv message boards when the "what is Nicole wearing" thread is the longest running and most popular.
It is too bad that the forum part of that site went downhill once Jim L. left the network. In the old days, Jim (the network prez) would be on the boards all the time actually answering and debating with users the various topics. I certainly miss that.
If SPEED took the time to create a site specifically in support of their NASCAR efforts, including posting video and Insider columns, I think it would be a hit.
The Racer Magazine influence on SPEEDtv.com had been nothing short of a disaster.
- January 6, 2008 at 11:44 AM
- Anonymous said...
I won't be watching anything on the ESPN Classic channel. That channel is not provided by my cable company, under the popular extended package. Many channels such as ESPN, ESPN2, SPEED, TNT, FOX, ABC, NBC are, but not ESPN Classic. I can't justify paying extra just to be able to view ESPN Classic.
I am so glad that SPEED will be providing coverage of testing at Daytona. I really enjoy their coverage and dedication to NASCAR fans.
- January 6, 2008 at 12:01 PM
- GinaV24 said...
I'll definitely be watching speed for the coverage of testing. Yeah, it's not the most exciting stuff, but I know speed will do a good job of covering NASCAR, so that's great. NASCAR Now, well, they have only one chance to get it right, if Klueless is on there when I tune in, I will be done watching it for the season. I'm not willing to subject myself to that waste of time again this season. I like the idea of classic race re-airs, but what channel? If it's espn classic, well, I don't get that on my cable package and although I have requested it from Comcast, they are like Nascar, being a monopoly so they do what they want, not what is best for their customers (sorry I digress).
- January 6, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- Anonymous said...
Beware of the editing of these Classic Daytona 500 races from ESPN. The editing could be as bad as the live broadcasting. Broadway/Hollywood King Brian may be trying to thumb his nose at us again.
I also think that the hiring of Glover in 2003 was the beginning of a long range plan to get back to ESPN coverage and big money for all the POWERS THAT ARE. Since Glover was vp of broadcasting and new media, how much did he have to do with this debacle?
The life blood is being sucked out of this sport in the name of fat corporate pockets.
We need to remember that the races are very exciting. We are just not seeing it anymore because of scripted coverage. Just call the race from all of the track not just the front runners. No more sneak attacks from the media. This sport has no timeout, tv or otherwise,unless the track is damaged or blocked. This means the comentators must be on alert all the time which is not what other sports require. Please, no tv timeouts with red flags, I can only hope that is not what will come next.
Hanging on by a thread,
Grandma J
- January 6, 2008 at 12:11 PM
- Anonymous said...
I agree that the SPEED forums were fun and interesting while Jim was there.
He hung in there against the "you suck" posters and had some amazing discussions during his times on the forum.
As always, thanks for all the work you do for your readers and for our sport. :)
- January 6, 2008 at 12:27 PM
- Anonymous said...
Newracefan said...
"Also no DVR required since Speed gets it and waits till 7p to air Preseason Thunder. On the East coast many people are home by then and possibly even finished dinner and unlike Nascar Now which always required DVR if I could find it at all,"
NASCAR Now began last season airing at 6:30 p.m. on the East Coast. Around the beginning of August, ESPN2 moved it back to 6 p.m. (5:30 on Mondays). Which was disappointing because it was a better chance we'd get to see at least part of it at 6:30 instead of 6, without recording it on a VCR (some of us still have VCR/DVD combo players for each TV and have no interest in getting DVR yet).
I always thought the ratings for NASCAR Now must not be all that impressive since they moved the show from 6:30 to 6 in July or August. It was replaced with a college football daily program.
But I looked at the first two weeks of ESPN's schedule in February. Appears as if ESPN2 is airing a half hour version of NASCAR Now, it's going to begin at 6:30 p.m. while the hour long version begins at 6. Makes me think that NN may be back at 6:30 most days - until college football begins again.
I also notice on Feb. 8 and Feb. 15, a mysteriously titled "NASCAR Project" is scheduled at 7pm after NN, for one hour. I wonder what it is. Hopefully it's the first two episodes of a NASCAR behind-the-scenes TV series.
Probably not, but I keep hoping I'll see a decent one (or two) of those this season.
- January 6, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- Anonymous said...
I'll be watching and can't wait for something NASCAR!!! Pretty simple.
If E. K. is hosting Nascar Now, I won't be tuning in period. I'm hoping they have seen the light and heard all our complaints and a new host will be starting ~ that would be a dream come true. Just don't make it Rusty.....oh please!
- January 6, 2008 at 3:31 PM
- Vince said...
I'll be watching Speed's preseason coverage. It's always interesting to see the drivers that switched teams and how they do. And we have Gibb's with Toyota which will be fun to watch too. Tony S. should be good for a few quotes. Speed could do their coverage with just John Roberts and Larry Mac. Hammond is not a favorite of mine and I haven't been a fan of Bob Dill Pickel since he accused RCR of using doctored wheels/tires a few years ago.
As for ESPN, I don't have Classic so I won't be watching their Daytona 500 playbacks. And I'm with Ginav24 regarding NascarNow. I'll watch, but if Erik the Klueless is the host, I won't be watching that show again. I still believe ESPN just does not "get it" as far as Nascar and what we want to see and I have serious doubts that they ever will get it.
But despite ESPN and their problems, I AM looking forward to the preseason and all the new cars, teams, etc.
Note to FOX. You guys are not without blame here either. You started a lot of the crap that ESPN is now trying to copy. I'm hoping Daytona will not have Chris Myers and Jeff Hammond starting the show in the Hollywood Hotel. Myers knows as much about Nascar as Erik the Klueless does. Maybe those two could join forces and do a show on the Home Shopping Network or something! I say that, because then I'd never have to see the two of them again.
JD have you made a decision yet on what you're going to do with this blog for the coming year? We all are hoping you'll keep it going. I think it has made a difference in the tv coverage and may be more of an influence in the coming year.
- January 6, 2008 at 3:50 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
We are coming down the home stretch where that is concerned. I will be making an announcement prior to Feb 1st. Thanks.
- January 6, 2008 at 4:25 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD have you made a decision yet on what you're going to do with this blog for the coming year?
Of course he is! He'd have quit during the off-season if he planned to stop--why wait until things crank up and then quit?
JD is an old TV guy. What he's doing here is knon as a "tease" to keep you watching.
- January 6, 2008 at 5:08 PM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 5:08PM,
I respect your right to comment, but nothing could be further from the truth.
This past season was interesting, but the prospect of full-time hours and a significant amount of lost revenue for me personally makes this one a tough choice.
This project has grown from one hour a day to over fifty hours a week in email, research and writing. Since I already work in another industry, it made for a tough stretch during the last several months of the season.
As I said, I am getting some good advice, and I will be having a meeting about 2008 next week.
You may have noticed there are no ads on my site, all costs involved in this project since January of 2008 have come out of my pocket.
We will let you know what is up shortly.
- January 6, 2008 at 5:28 PM
- Anonymous said...
JD- First let me say THANK YOU most, most sincerely for all your efforts and wise commentary. The Daly Planet made the TNT & ESPN disasters of 2007 somewhat bearable.
My hope really would be that NASCAR would hire you as its media advisor - and allow you time to keep The Daly Planet going.
As to the SPEED shows, yes I will watch & plan to tape most shows to make sure I get to see them.
- January 6, 2008 at 5:42 PM
- Anonymous said...
Of course I'll be watching. I can still think for myself and make my own conclusions on what I see. And what I see is one of the greatest sports on the planet getting cranked up for another great season.
It's alsmot time for some Boogity, boogity, boogity!
- January 6, 2008 at 6:19 PM
- Anonymous said...
NASCAR.com is starting to provide some coverage too. Audio right now, maybe video added later?
NASCAR.COM will have streaming audio of the news conferences for Cup Series testing at Daytona:
Monday, Jan. 7
• Noon-12:20 p.m. -- Jimmie Johnson
• 12:30-12:50 p.m. -- Jeff Gordon
• 12:50-1 p.m. -- Greg Biffle
Tuesday, Jan. 8
• Noon-12:20 p.m. -- Matt Kenseth
• 12:30-12:50 p.m. -- Juan Montoya
Wednesday, Jan. 9
• Noon-12:20 p.m. -- Kyle Busch
• 12:30-12:50 p.m. -- Casey Mears and crew chief Alan Gustafson
- January 7, 2008 at 12:27 AM
- Anonymous said...
"This project has grown from one hour a day to over fifty hours a week in email, research and writing. Since I already work in another industry, it made for a tough stretch during the last several months of the season.
As I said, I am getting some good advice, and I will be having a meeting about 2008 next week."
Would love to see you back this season. What about you combining with some other good NASCAR folks for a "superblog"? Maybe each of you would write three days a week instead of the six or seven days you seem to write a week, or you yourself could concentrate mostly on reviewing the Friday -Sunday broadcasts every week.
For instance, I read here and then other blogs that Ed Hinton isn't writing for his newspaper anymore. Dave Moody has a blog but he rarely writes on it. Combine all of you together - and maybe someone else that I'm missing, and I'm sure you could get ad revenue for it. Maybe be the Deadspin of NASCAR (certainly not that snarky, but you know what I mean. Deadspin has a blog entry with comments added below, just like here. I think that's a good way to keep it.)
Good luck.
- January 7, 2008 at 9:32 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 9:32AM,
It was nice of you to mention Deadspin, Will Leitch is the reason I started this blog. I was doing his NASCAR stories, but this sport just did not fit on a stick and ball site like his, so I started a blogspot project.
He has helped me along the way, and continues to be the leader of the indy writers who stand outside of the mainstream and speak openly and honestly about sports.
I have rejected all the offers to write for other mainstream publications and sites for that very reason. If I continue, I want to succeed or fail with just myself and our readers.
I have some radio things coming up this week, and I will update everyone on those shortly.
Thanks, JD
- January 7, 2008 at 9:39 AM
- Anonymous said...
I won't be watching, just like last year. ESPN could not have screwed up this show more than it did and it has lost me as a viewer. It's clear they have no clue what's going on nor can they admit Eric Kusselias (sp?) is perhaps the WORST host they can have for the show.
You wonder if Marty Smith is ready to slit his wrists for joining that train wreck of a show.
- January 7, 2008 at 10:02 AM
- Anonymous said...
In addition to the NASCAR TV partners and NASCAR.com getting their coverage going today, I'd like to see the drivers on some mainstream TV shows before the Daytona 500, to publicize the upcoming season. Every bit of NASCAR programming can't be about preaching to the choir: meaning the already existing fans. And some of us existing fans like to see the guys in different settings.
I see that Jeff Gordon is co-hosting "Regis and Kelly" in a couple of weeks. That's great, I always record that - he hosts it at least twice a year, once before the 500 and once around Chase time. But where are the other guys? When was the last time Mr. "4-time Most Popular Driver", Dale Earnhardt Jr., appeared on a talk show, or a guest shot on a TV series? Reportedly he doesn't like doing them, but it's kind of part of his job to do them, I think.
Where's Kenseth? Where's the always hilarious Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya?
Jimmie Johnson didn't get his championship Letterman appearance because of the writer's strike. but the late night shows are back, so perhaps he can do Letterman AND Leno before the season begins. NASCAR should make sure he gets the Letterman appearance for sure. Helio Castroneves was already on one of the latenight shows when they came back last week. Helio is going to steal the NASCAR drivers' thunder (and recognition factor)among non-racing fans if they don't watch out!
Fox has the Daytona 500 and the first set of races, so get some of the drivers who like American Idol seats to the show when they start live tapings and let us see them or have Ryan talk to them. Or Fox has celebrity editions of their game shows, like the Jeff Foxworthy one "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader". Put a driver on there. Have a driver judge Miss America or one of those pageants, I think the only driver who has is....Jeff Gordon.
The PR people need to start working the phones and get the drivers some face time that doesn't involve Fox Sports, SPEED or ESPN.
- January 7, 2008 at 11:02 AM
- Anonymous said...
Protestations to the contrary, I predict a 100% chance JD will continue this blog.
If JD felt this project was too expensive or too time consuming, he would not have wasted the time and money updating it almost daily during the off-season when (essentially) nothing was happening, especially if he was thinking he wouldn't keep running the blog.
The blog may well include advertising, and my guess is, JD's "might-not-continue" statements are designed to blunt reader criticism of the commercial aspect when it begins. (This scenario has played out on several other blogs in the last several years.)
I'd tell you the service is appreciated, John, but you've seen the hit totals and know that for yourself.
- January 7, 2008 at 11:43 AM
- Daly Planet Editor said...
Anon 11:43AM,
That might be the most hilarious post of the past entire eleven months.
btw..if you have the Florida Lotto numbers for Saturday, could you drop me a line?
- January 7, 2008 at 12:00 PM
- Anonymous said...
"I have rejected all the offers to write for other mainstream publications and sites for that very reason. If I continue, I want to succeed or fail with just myself and our readers."
Thank you for your kind reply and the information about your other offers (I wrote the comment at 9:32.) I admire your wish to not be beholden to the control NASCAR can exert on the media sometimes.
Anonymous comment@11:02, I agree drivers could be more visible. I've recently taken to reading some of the athlete blogs on yardbarker.com. The athletes really write them on their computers - some are not the greatest spellers in the world, but they try.
Some just write a boring couple of sentences about the game once a week (I skip them) but there are four or five who really try to write a little about their lives or how they're feeling - a few paragraphs, a normal blog entry.
Even with typos, a couple of them come across as so nice and sincere (actually reply to a few fan comments, I assume when time permits) it makes you interested in following them in their sport a little bit.
The ones I like so far are MLB pitcher Dontrelle Willis and NBA #1 draft pick Greg Oden. Oden looks big and intimidating in pictures, but he's just a regular teenager who likes teenager things and wonders why his new puppy keeps eating the grass. I'd probably think differently of him without the blog. He puts camcorder video of himself in some of them, which is a nice touch (his pre-draft camcorder tour of his "crib" -his mom's tiny apartment - shows how regular he is.)
Wish a few NASCAR drivers would sign up over there, I think they'd get some new fans if they put some effort into blogging. Some of the more famous Cup drivers were supposed to blog on InfieldParking.com, but hardly any of them do. You go to their pages and find they don't even log in to the site for weeks/months at a time.
- January 7, 2008 at 12:39 PM
- Anonymous said...
With their schedule (and very long season) NASCAR's Cup drivers have to keep, I am not surprised that they consider blogging a very low priority.
- January 7, 2008 at 12:53 PM
- Anonymous said...
Some real nice live blogs from the track out there to read today. Call me crazy, but I really like the " Test Primer " look of the cars out there. Again some good photos from today!
- January 7, 2008 at 1:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
"With their schedule (and very long season) NASCAR's Cup drivers have to keep, I am not surprised that they consider blogging a very low priority."
But the NBA and MLB seasons are very long with many games and travel. All the athletes have laptops these days.
The driver who blogs on his site regularly, who is (Dale) Junior, says he always has his laptop with him on the plane and at the track, that's when he blogs. He's got to be pretty busy, but he blogs. Others likely could - if they wanted to.
- January 7, 2008 at 1:18 PM
- Anonymous said...
FYI, SPEED is repeating the NASCAR testing shows later in the evening tonight and the other nights. Good job, SPEED. ;)
Jeff Gordon blogs AND records video messages at his website. Unfortunately you have to be a paying member to view anything past the starts of the blogs and videos and I'm not a member. Steve Letarte blogs also. I visit Jeff's website to see the cute baby pictures he keeps posting, those are free. :-) Therefore, the most known drivers, Gordon and Earnhardt Jr., look like they have the most savvy, or have hired the most savvy, to keep up with the times.
Infield Parking blogs except for Earnhardt Jr. is useless IMO. If drivers blog on IP -not many and not much - it sounds fake, like somebody else wrote it and they're there to promote something they endorse. The blogs inevitiably mention an event or link to website such as the internet poker game website several drivers endorse.
- January 7, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- Anonymous said...
I will definitely be watching Speed's coverage. ESPN-probably not. I'm going to wait and see what people on here have to say about it before I check it out.
As for Infield Parking and the complaint that drivers rarely long in....Bobby Labonte logs in two to three times a week on average. He's even visited my IP Page as well as some other fans of his during this off-season. He's pretty good about blogging, too.
- January 7, 2008 at 3:40 PM
- Anonymous said...
John, I read the comments and your responses on the "future of this blog."
I found it ironic that you've posted entries about ESPN being "mum" on plans and not telling us what they'll do--all the while, doing exactly the same thing yourself!
"John Daly Mum on Plans for 2008," could be one headline.
- January 7, 2008 at 6:23 PM
- Anonymous said...
Please leave JD alone, good grief. I would miss this site if it was gone and you would too or you wouldn't be here.
Re: Infield Parking:
Drivers who blog about once a month: Bobby Labonte, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Drivers who signed up, wrote one blog entry and disappeared though they said they were excited about blogging or whatever: Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, Boris Said, Jimmie Johnson, Clint Bowyer, Jamie McMurray, Juan Pablo Montoya
Driver who started out writing decent blogs, but tapered off after a few entries (over several months): Dale Jarrett
Drivers whose blogs are somewhat frequent (monthly) but seem like they're written by PR people: Tony Stewart, Elliott Sadler, Kevin Harvick
- January 7, 2008 at 7:12 PM


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Some Optimizations Are More Important Than Others
Sometimes in this space I talk about how to write programs that avoid needless work. Other times I argue that computers should work for people, not the other way around. Isn't there a contradiction here? If you rewrite your program to avoid needless work for the computer, aren't you doing work to make things easier for the computer?
The way to resolve this apparent contradiction is to realize that whenever a human is waiting for a computer to do needless work, it is not just the computer's time that is being wasted. If the work is finished quickly enough that no one is inconvenienced by waiting, then it doesn't matter how much computer time is wasted. On the other hand, there are times when even a fraction of a second is too long to wait. For example, a program that displays video too slowly to keep up with the frame rate is as useless as a program that takes 48 hours to issue a 24-hour weather forecast.
In other words, every program optimization is a tradeoff between human effort and computer time. I believe that human effort is usually much more important than computer time, but not infinitely so and not under all circumstances. Doing a lot of rewriting in order to make a program slightly faster is much less important than doing a small amount of rewriting to make a program a lot faster.
Sometimes an optimization saves relatively more when the program has more work to do. A classic example of such an optimization is replacing a bubble sort by a better sorting algorithm. Bubble sorts are typically O(n2), where n is the number of elements being sorted. There are other algorithms that are O(n log n). The ratio between O(n2) and O(n log n) increases as n increases, to the extent that O(n2) algorithms are usually impractical for larger than toy programs.
Another factor to keep in mind when you think about optimizing a program is whether your optimization will be dominated by another part of the program's execution time. For example, if a program uses a bubble sort on n elements in several places in its code, and you replace some of those bubble sorts by faster algorithms but leave others as they were, the remaining bubble sorts will take an ever greater share of the total program's execution time as n increases.
In short, the key to finding effective ways to speed up a program is to look at the parts of the program that dominate its execution time and find ways of speeding up those parts that require relatively little programmer effort to implement.
With this background in mind, let's think about moving data rather than copying it. Suppose, for example, that we have two functions, each of which takes a string argument:
void val(string s) { /* … */ } void refc(const string& s) { /* … */ }
As their names imply,
val's parameter is a simple value, and
refc's parameter is a reference to
const. Accordingly, when we give a variable to each of these functions as its argument:
string s; val(s); refc(s);
val copies
s, and calling
refc(s) does not do so. Much of the time, we would expect
refc to be faster than
How much faster is
refc? It depends. One extreme is that each of these functions looks at only a few characters in the string. In that case, copying the string's characters would dominate the functions' execution time, so avoiding copying the characters would make a relatively large difference. The other extreme is that the functions do a lot of work regardless of the string's length, and the amount of work grows at least as rapidly as the string's length. In that case, the time to copy the string never dominates, and there's not much to gain.
There's a third case to consider: Perhaps the functions use the string in a way that effectively copies it anyway. For example, consider a function that returns the reverse of its argument. We might write it this way:
string rev(string s) { reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); return s; }
Alternatively, we might write it this way:
string rev(const string& s) { string t = s; reverse(t.begin(), t.end()); return t; }
The first of these functions takes advantage of the knowledge that its parameter,
s, is a copy of its argument. Because of this knowledge, the function is free to modify the parameter. The second of these functions does not have that freedom, so it has to copy its parameter to modify the copy. Both of these functions wind up doing pretty much the same thing.
Note the weasel words "pretty much" in the previous paragraph. They are there because C++11 standard-library strings have move constructors. Consider the expression
rev(get_string()), where
get_string is any function that returns a
string. The subexpression
get_string() is an rvalue, so the compiler knows that that subexpression is not going to be used again. As a result, if we are using the first version of
rev, the result of
get_string() is moved directly to
rev's parameter
s. No characters are copied. In contrast, if we are using the second version of
rev, the function is explicitly making a copy of
s when it creates the local variable
t. In other words, in C++11 it is actually possible for the second version of
rev to be slower than the first.
If you really care enough about execution time that the difference between the two versions of
rev matters to you, you should probably be overloading it:
string rev(string&& s) { reverse(s.begin(), s.end()); return s; } string rev(const string& s) { string t = s; reverse(t.begin(), t.end()); return t; }
Overloading an rvalue reference with an ordinary reference to
const ensures that calling it with any kind of argument will match exactly one of these functions. If the argument is an rvalue, the compiler will choose the first function, which will reverse that rvalue in place. If the argument might be used again later, the compiler will call the second function, which will safely copy the string's characters.
So far, what we have seen is an assortment of small, mundane optimizations. They aren't terribly hard to code; they sometimes help and sometimes don't; and sometimes they even make things worse unless you use overloading to ensure that the compiler always does what you intend. Among the most useful of these optimizations is the one that you don't write at all; namely the one that happens when the compiler turns a copy into a move for you.
If this were all there were to it, you would be justified in wondering what the fuss was about. However, all of the examples so far have made an important, unstated assumption: Copying a string usually does not dominate the execution time of the program that does so. When we use more complicated containers, this assumption falls apart. We shall look more closely at that phenomenon next week.


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MGT101 - Fundamentals of Supervision
Course examines the responsibilities of a supervisor and the application of skills and techniques involved in supervision of people. Content includes motivation, communication, labor relations, legal issues, dealing with grievances, supervisory ethics, problem solving, decision making, and diversity.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT106 - Time and Stress Management
Course presents basic principles and theories of time and stress management, covering how small adjustments can reap rewards in personal and professional effectiveness.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT117 - Human Relations in The Workplace
Introductory course stressing "people†skills and utilizing these skills in an increasingly team-based and customer-oriented workplace. Content provides opportunities to become more effective in discerning, ethical, flexible, perceptive behaviors while working with people. Special attention is given to appropriate communications skills, working on diverse teams, multinational and diversity awareness, discrimination and biases in the workplace, appearance and business etiquette.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT118 - Effective Management Communications
Course integrates concepts and research from several disciplines including business communication and organizational behavior. Contents includes examination of the communication process and its importance in the business environment including both theories and practice, various forms of communication used in business including writing for managerial communications, oral communications including individual and group oral presentations, use of the internet and other methods of modern business communication, and communicating in the job search process. Recommendation: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT121 - Principles of Management
Course is a study of management emphasizing the management functions of planning, decision-making, organizing, leading, and controlling. Recommended: Placement in EGL 101; hands-on experience using word processing, the Internet, and e-mail.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT130 - Purchasing Management
Course provides a general background of fundamental purchasing concepts. Content includes specific studies for those in business and industry, who wish to expand their knowledge of purchasing management, such as price cost and value analysis; purchasing research; forward buying; purchasing systems; legal aspects of purchasing; make or buy decisions; and electronic data processing as it relates to the purchasing function.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT138 - Introduction to Professional and Personal Coaching
Course introduces the beginning fundamentals of life coaching. Students will learn both the history of the field as well as current coaching trends and how to create a coaching practice based on individual skills, experience, and interests.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT140 - Supervisory Development
Course focuses on fundamental issues of supervision for students who are currently a supervisor or aspire to be a supervisor to help them develop practical supervisory skills. Recommended: MGT 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT155 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
Course integrates the concepts, principles, problems and practices of operations management and supply chain management. Content includes: supply chain and operations strategies, quality control, process choice and layout, managing capacity, forecasting, source decisions and purchasing, logistics, project management, just in time/lean production, global channel management, and managing inventory throughout the supply chain.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT156 - Introduction to Transportation, Warehousing and Logistics
Course covers business logistics concepts including the management of transportation, inventory, packaging, warehousing, materials handling, order processing, facility location, and customer service.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
Fee: $25
MGT160 - Small Business Management
Course presents the principles and problems of organizing a small business. Content includes analysis of entrepreneurial qualifications and skills; capital resources and requirements; forms of ownership; and financial analysis and planning. Focus is on tax and legal considerations; staffing and learning to identify profit opportunities using market analysis; bringing products to market through effective advertising, personal selling and distribution methods and practices. Includes franchises, availability of government assistance through the Small Business Administration (SBA), evaluation of an existing business for purchase and special opportunities granted to small businesses in selling to government agencies.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT165 - Human Resources Management
Course covers essentials of human resources management principle sand practices in business and industry. Content includes reengineering; employee benefits; pension funds; selection; testing, placement, orientation, employee evaluation; wage determination; counseling, employer relations (morale and motivation), promotion, transfer, training, state and federal legislation (disabled and handicapped, ADA), discrimination, and harassment. Recommended: MGT 121 or employment in the human resources field.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT170 - Training and Development
Course introduces the field of training and development. Content includes identification of skills necessary to design and implement a training program; roles and responsibilities of trainers, and unique characteristics of adult learners. Current trends and career opportunities addressed. Intended for those who have responsibility for training or human resources development within their organization, or for those exploring training as a career. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT180 - Introduction to Business Security Management
Course provides an overview of the principles of security organization management. Topics include the challenges that organizations face in the area of security with regard to personnel, facility, and information. Security strategies for business and contingency planning are also covered.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT181 - The Principles of Business Asset Protection
Course covers the principles of the protection of assets within an organization. Topics include risk exposure, risk analysis, and security strategies as they relate to business asset protection within business units of an organization.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT182 - Emergency and Contingency Planning
Course provides a foundation on the background components and systems involved in the management of disasters and other emergencies within a business. Topics include the role of an organization in the areas of identification, analysis, and contingency procedures related to various emergency situations.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT205 - Organizational Behavior
Course develops skills and competencies needed by managers and professionals to effectively contribute to an organization. Content focus is on individual behavior in an organization; impact of work teams within an organization; and organizational systems. Recommended: MGT 117.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT210 - Business Etiquette
Course presents the fundamentals of business etiquette as they are applied to the modern multicultural and global business environments. Content includes the importance of the first impression, polite conversation, personal appearance, office politics, diplomacy, telephone and cell phone etiquette, proper oral and written communication, and the protocol of meetings both in the United States and abroad. Students will participate in an off-campus formal dining experience.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
Fee: $99
MGT220 - Managing Effective Teams
Course presents theory and practical tools to become a more productive team member and leader. Topics include characteristics of high performing teams, leadership strategies, avoiding dysfunctional team dynamics, and managing diverse and virtual teams. Recommended: MGT 205.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT222 - Conflict Management
Course introduces a range of potential positive conflict management processes. Content includes active listening and communication skills; principle negotiation; various forms of mediation, arbitration and nonviolent action. Recommended: MGT 117.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT225 - Effective Leadership Skills
Course explores how effective leadership skills contribute to organizational effectiveness, employee motivation and success, and personal growth and development. Content includes current leadership models, with focus on identifying and developing workplace leadership skills; development of action plan to illustrate and improve leadership skills.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT228 - Change Management
Course examines technical and behavioral aspects of change processes within an organization so that change strategies can be planned, implemented and evaluated. Content includes the relationship between strategy and organizational structure; organizational restructuring and its outcomes; leadership skills and behaviors associated with successful change; creating a transition environment; developing measures for evaluating the success of change effort; dealing with resistance to change, and institutionalizing change.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT231 - Safety and Risk Management
Course examines concepts of safety management. Content includes strategies to create and perpetuate safe and productive environments for all stakeholders; effects of sound decision making to diminish and control corporate and individual liability.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT232 - Managing Diversity in the Workplace
Course examines issues related to managing and being a member of a diverse workforce. Content includes diversity-related issues with management implications, such as social identity; recruitment and selection; work groups and team interaction; sexual harassment; workplace romance; leadership, work and family; accommodation of people with disabilities; and organizational strategies for promoting multicultural equal opportunity.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT236 - Project Management
Course introduces principles of Project Management as defined by the Project Management Institute (PMI). Content includes experiential exercises and team participation to gain experience with computer-based project management procedures, and to increase basic familiarity with state-of-the-art project management software. Credit cannot be received in both MGT 236 and CIS 236.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 1)
Fee: $10
MGT238 - Professional and Personal Coaching II
Course supports advanced knowledge of Professional and Personal Coaching with a focus on application. Students will learn strategies to create a structure for various coaching approaches under the guidance of the instructor. Prerequisite: MGT 138 with a minimum grade of C
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT251 - Practicum
Course offers opportunity to earn credits in a directed work experience. Content includes required attendance at Management Seminars with other management interns to discuss and share on-the-job learning experiences, such as job problems and management case problems; seminars involve guest lecturers speaking on topics of special interest to management personnel. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of 12 hours of MGT courses.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 15)
MGT253 - Project Management Certification Preparation
Course offers an intensive review of project management concepts and the application of these concepts to various business scenarios in preparation for the Project Management Professional (PMP) certification exam. Students cannot receive credit for both MGT 253 and CIS 253. Recommended: CIS 236 or MGT 236 or comparable knowledge or consent of instructor.
2 Credit Hours (lecture: 2; lab: 0)
MGT266 - Employee Selection and Staffing
Course covers fundamental principles and practices of staffing. Content focus is on interdependence of effective organizational performance with proper hiring and assessment of personnel; personnel staffing; recruiting, and selection function involved in human resource management. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT268 - Human Resource Management Law
Course investigates federal and state legislative, judicial and administrative regulations of the employer/employee relationship in the private sector. Content includes equal employment opportunity, affirmative action, wage-hour law, labor law, employee pension benefits, workers' compensation, unemployment compensation. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT271 - Cases in Human Resource Management
Course involves real-life human resource management situations. Content developed through case study approach, examining how a variety of companies have dealt with various human resource issues. Recommended: MGT 165.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT276 - Corporate Social Responsibility and Decision Making
Course familiarizes students with concepts of corporate citizenship and sustainability by focusing on the scope and consequences of corporate decision making and its impact on its various constituencies in a global setting. Students will develop a framework for analyzing good corporate decisions, the role of the individual, and the responsibility of leadership and governance in the decision making process. Recommended: PHL 107.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT285 - Negotiations
Course involves real-life management and personal negotiation situations. Content includes the theory and processes of negotiation as practiced in a variety of settings including preparing, measuring, conducting and debriefing individual and group negotiations. Recommended: MGT 117.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT288 - Strategic Management
Course is an integrative learning experience in strategic management focusing on concepts and their application to a variety of business functions. Content covers identifying problems, analyzing solutions, decision-making, and formulating a workable plan. Course is designed as a capstone for the management curriculum. Prerequisite: Twelve hours of MGT courses or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
MGT290 - Topics in Management
Course meets special interest needs of Management students and local business organizations. Special topics will be offered for variable credit from one to four semester credit hours. Students may repeat MGT 290 up to three times on different topics for a maximum of nine semester credit hours. Prerequisite may vary by topic.
1-4 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-4; lab: 0)
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We've been considering making some larger VO saddlebags. We currently sell five models of saddle bags. The first two are the small Brooks Challenge a D-shaped bags, these are small bags for tools, keys, or other small items. We also sell the VO Croissant and Baguette bags which will soon be available in a new style in black and with more leather trim. These bags are the perfect size to leave on a bike all the time; there is room for tools, wallet, mini-pump, a banana, a rain shell. Finally we have the Ostrich bags which approaches the practical size limit for saddle bags. This size bag is useful for the commuter and for short inn-to-inn tours.
So what do we want in a VO saddle bag? We want a larger bag that matches the look of the upcoming VO handlebar bag and new versions of the Croissant and Baguette bags. That is it will be black waxed cotton with brown leather trim. We also want it to be sturdy and reasonably priced. Finally, Carradice bags are almost impossible to get these days and it's time someone filled that gap.
As for size, Both Tom and I own Carradice Longflap bags. I think that that model is simply too big; Tom uses his every day. We both agree that there is a practical weight limit for saddle bags that is too often exceeded. I think it's 5-6 pounds; Tom says about 10 pounds. In any case, we agree that an overloaded saddle bag severely and negatively effects a bikes handling. If your plan is to go grocery shopping, panniers, not a large saddle bag, are what you need. So something of about 8 to 10-liter capacity is what we're after.
As for shape, I prefer a more square shape like the Berthoud and Ostrich bags. A saddlebag this big really needs to be used with a support such as the ViVa support or the Bagman support (are those still made?) The square shape is better suited to use with a support and better suited to laptops, books, and other loads that are often carried in saddle bags. Tom argues that the round shape with expandable collar offers more capacity, perhaps too much capacity.
So we'll open the floor to discussion. What would you like a larger VO saddle bag to look like?
Speaking of bags, we just listed three interesting panniers on E-bay, still working to get rid of lots of samples and display items.
19 November, 2008
VO Saddle Bags
We've been considering making some larger VO saddlebags. We currently sell five models of saddle bags. The first two are the small Brooks Challenge a D-shaped bags, these are small bags for tools, keys, or other small items. We also sell the VO Croissant and Baguette bags which will soon be available in a new style in black and with more leather trim. These bags are the perfect size to leave on a bike all the time; there is room for tools, wallet, mini-pump, a banana, a rain shell. Finally we have the Ostrich bags which approaches the practical size limit for saddle bags. This size bag is useful for the commuter and for short inn-to-inn tours.
Posted by Velo Orange at 12:27:00 PM
48 comments:
- Steve said...
I don't have an opinion on the saddle bags, but I'm curious if you allow for combining orders from e-bay and your web store. Also, is your next run of montmarte bars on schedule? I'd like to make one big order, so I'd be willing to purchase certain things and wait until the bars come in for you to ship it...
- Anonymous said...
I like simplicity. That means no special additional support brackets, etc. I like the way Carradice bags attach with two straps for the saddle and one for the seatpost. What I don't like about them is that due to their shape, the seatpost attachment rotates them down, so that when you open the flap the contents could spill out.
I would say make them squarish if you like, but shape them so they are "upright" while attached in the Carradice fashion. Rivendell did that with some of their own models. BTW, I didn't know Carradice bags were getting hard to get. What's up with that?
- Velo Orange said...
Steve, We want to keep the E-bay stuff separate. It's not linked to our regular inventory or shipping or ordering systems. One reason we have good prices is that we are efficient and entering a bunch of stuff manually takes more time.
The Montmarte bars will be here soon.
- Anonymous said...
I have a Carradice Longflap and Bagman and the main problem is that the bottom of the bag could use a stiffener like Berthouds have. The Bagman supports it, but the Carradice is all bunched up at the bottom, minimizing space.
Loaded it definitely does affect the handling. The Bagman is really heavy, too. I wonder, if you made a square bag with integrated support, would it would be lighter overall?
- Anonymous said...
I like the Ostrich bag and am getting ready to place my order. Not olny do they look great, they do not have straps & buckles. I have found the straps and buckles on Carradice bags etc. to be a bit of a PIA when your fingers are cold and wet
- Ian Dickson said...
Carradice bags are hard to get through U.S. retailers, but very easy to get through Carradice's website.
I agree that handling suffers when a saddlebag is overloaded, but it's nice to have a rackless bike that can hold a lot of stuff in a pinch. Usually I just carry my tools, lunch, and clothes, but a big bag can carry those unexpected acquisitions. I'd rather have bad handling once in a while than have two commuting bikes.
The Carradice-style long flap is very handy. If your bag doesn't have one, it would be nice if it had metal loops for lashing bulky things (jackets, sleeping pads, etc.) to the outside of the bag. You might not use them 95% of the time, but they'd really increase the bag's usefulness.
A few factors could convert me to a VO saddlebag. The black-and-brown color scheme sounds very nice--certainly nicer than Carradice's black-and-sort-of-light-blue. The pockets on the Carradice could be improved. And if you could come up with a bag that would stay away from the rider's thighs without the help of a saddlebag support or stand-off, you'd really have something.
I wouldn't go for a ten-liter bag. Most of the time it would be large enough, but I like the versatility of a larger bag. Maybe you could make two sizes?
Thanks for working on this.
- C said...
I'm a fan of the big Carradice bags. I commute using an Overlander (same size as a Camper) supported by the SQR mount. It's the best method I've found for carrying a full-sized laptop and change of clothes. A rack and panniers won't work for me - I want something I can quickly remove for my non-commute rides. The SQR also eliminates the rubbing your legs and dumping cargo problems.
- Anonymous said...
I like the look of the bag in the picture (the Carradice) a lot more than the Ostrich, but I agree with both of you on size and weight carrying. I find 10lbs max is about it but the Longflaps are too big. If that well-worn 'dice in the pic could just shrunken down by, say, 25%, that might be just right. I like the pockets too, and the ability o strap a rain-jacket, for instance to the flap, but I feel they stick out a bit too much. My .02 anyway.
- buck-50 said...
If yer gonna make bags, Please Please Please don't just copy the existing carradice models. The carradice bags were designed, what, 100 years ago? and while their look is great and basic form and function is good, you can't strap them under a modern (or even a brooks) saddle and seatpost without them hitting your legs. And, they're hard to get on and off the bike.
If yer gonna do this, think about re-thinking how a giant saddlebag works. Maybe some kind of decaleur attachment to the saddle for good bag support and easy removal/installation. It would be so very nice to have an easy to remove bag with built in stiffeners and an attached shoulder strap.
And finally, I like roundish bags for the back of my bike.
Thanks for listening!
- Anonymous said...
I am interested in what you come up with. I agree with some of the other posts regarding a decent sized bag that doesn't need an extra support, but still straps to the seatpost for stability. If it had a couple side pockets for phone/keys and an internal shape stiffener to keep it from spilling out when opened as well as holding a nice profile when not full, then put me down for one.
Also, Acorn Bags (www.acornbags.com) has some nice stuff. Their production quantity is very small, but maybe they could ramp it up as a VO supplier.
- David said...
I agree that a heavily loaded saddlebag affects the handling of virtually any bike, but I have a hard time thinking that a heavily loaded anything doesn't affect handling somehow. The biggest handling issue I've experienced was when the saddlebag was left to swing side to side. I used a regular Bagman, and it worked very well stabalizing the load and keeping it off my wheel (I'm short).
I got the Bagman Quick Release Saddlebag Support as soon as it became available, and it's one of my all-time favorite thing. The QR part is what makes it so great. In fact, I've removed the support loop in favor of a rear carrier at various times.
I use either a lowsaddle longflap or a Barley for commuting and errands, and I lock up outside year-round (out of necessity). I HATED buckling and unbuckling the bag--it's hard to do when the bag is full, with cold hands, or with the impaired fine motor coordination I often have at the end of a ride. Also, you can't really get the straps tight with the buckle outside the bag, which is the only reasonable way to do it if you have to take it off every time you lock up (this is the big city after all). The Bagman QR is a spectacular solution: well-designed and well-made.
The flaw of the Bagman, in my view, is that the support loop doesn't have anything to tie onto, the way the ViVa does. Lashpoints would allow a bit of string to solve totally the "soft-bottom" problem, and would also allow the rack to be used w/out a bag--something I've tried to do with limited success, and occasional spectacular failure.
I believe Carradice bought the Bagman brand/company, but I don't understand why Wallbike never has them in stock (or why Carradice isn't make enough of them).
- David said...
Oops. One more nice thing about C'dice bags is that their simple boxy shape allows them to be used in other novel configurations-- I've used both sizes I own as handlebar bags, on a front rack, and as panniers.
- Jeremy said...
I would like a large-capacity (roughly equivalent to the Nelson) saddlebag that mounts and is stable without any extra hardware. The thing that attracts me to these bags is the ability to carry a load without a rack of any kind. I would also agree that the mounting system needs to not rely on carradice/brooks-style bag loops which are hard to find and drastically limit saddle choice. It should strap directly to the saddle rails and seatpost.
- Chris Kostman said...
The Bagman Uplift has not been available, at least here in the states, for a few years. I don't understand why. And frankly, I don't understand how anyone uses a saddlebag of any significant size at all without one! As Brian has pointed out, using a saddlebag on any modern bike causes one to rub the back of their legs on the saddlebag. And don't even try to suggest I use one of those stupid mini-racks to support the saddlebag. First of all, talk about over-kill: If I'm going to use a rack, I might as well have panniers and a rackpack. Plus, those mini-racks only support the bottom of the saddlebag, they don't really push it away from the legs, which is the main issues.
Chris, PLEASE put out a VO version of the Bagman Uplift! I'm sure you can make a better, lighter, and more functional version. I will buy a few the second you make them available! Thanks in advance.
PS I've even written to online stores in the UK which purport to sell the Bagman and they didn't even reply! Is this a conspiracy to make us all have saddlebags which rub on our legs, or what??????? (Actually, it's a conspiracy to have us leave our saddlebags in the box in which they arrived, since they are useless without an uplift. Watch for my Riv bags - unused - to appear on eBay soon.)
- Velo Orange said...
XO-1, The ViVa bag support is fine substitute for a Bagman. It's a better design and it's half the price. I can't see any reason to make a VO Bagman.
- Ian Dickson said...
X01, I think you can get the Bagman directly from Carradice now. I picked one up a while ago, but I only used it for about a month. I can see why people would like it, but I thought it was heavy, and the bag draped over it in kind of an ugly way. Right now I'm just using a spare tube as a standoff between the post and bag, and that works for me.
- Tom said...
I was using the Bagman for years and the same issues always came up. IT attaches to the seat rails and limits fore-aft positioning. The bag doesn't nest or is allowed to drift towards the seatpost so it often flops between the rails and rubs the tire or compresses the fender which rubs the tire.
Then I started using the Viva support. It allows the bag to scoot under the saddle just a little bit more and is better supported, and it's independent of the saddle so you can alter how high or low the bottom of the bag is in relation to your wheel. A nice bennie when there is not a lot of room between the saddle and wheel.
- Tom said...
I had the barley for about a year. I was always trying to cram too much stuff in it- lunch, rain jacket, u lock, keys, little random thing.s The Longflap was perfect for my commuting needs, and these days it doubles as a grocery getter. There;s enough capacity for a couple days of food and produce within reason. I'd lean towards a larger capacity bag and then offer a smaller one. Shape wise, I like the british style rounder bags over the French breadbox type. But the breadbox is a more useful shape. you don;t have to tug and pull and lash stuff on the outside to make stuff fit.
The caradice side pockets are poorly laid out. I like the drawstring under the flap to keep out wind and rain. i use the lashing points on the outside of the bag all the time. I'd like to keep that feature on allt he bags.
- Anonymous said...
I like big bags and I cannot lie!
8.2 litres is pretty small.
Longflaps with drawstring skirts win for my needs of utility and touring.
Bag supports mounted at teh saddle are asking for trouble on the larger bags. Either they break (ViVa) or they break the saddle rails (Bagman).
Supports such as small racks are needed with heavier loads.
But the saddle mount supports provide suspension which is great.
I thought the ViVa to be a better design but the material and finish isn't nearly as good.
With a broad front rack low over the front wheel and a messenger bag (or basket/sack), panniers are never needed.
I happen to like the handling on my bikes.
And it's a "matte" finish on the Zeppelin fenders. It's of Old French derivation, just your thing.
Marge Stotts answers emails. Lack of VAT covers the shipping.
- Anonymous said...
i've never met a saddlebag that was too big. i've met plenty that were too small. thx superfreak
- Anonymous said...
please consider making decent panniers for your front racks such as the courier.
- Justin August said...
I love my baguette and croissant bags, they are awesome for the price and features.
HOWEVER, I am severely bummed that I won't be able to get a matching huge-ass VO saddlebag since you're changing the colors.
- reverend dick said...
+1 on the lash points.
- Joshua said...
I'd glad you're considering this. I really want a large saddlebag and was disappointed to see that VO doesn't make one. Here's what I was looking at instead.
Like one of the previous posters, I really like the Acorn bags - they seem like a pretty great value for the quality/appearance you get. Another new entry into the fray is Minnehaha Bags, made by Minneapolis' Banjo Brothers. It seems like they're going a super-affordable route, which it most my style.
I'd really like something at this price-point (definitely LESS than $100). Any higher, and I'd just buy an established bag like those made by Rivendell or Carradice.
- Anonymous said...
Your idea sounds great, I agree with you about the shape. At present I am running an old karrimor from england circa 1976, hey what can I say the things still got a little bit of life left in it. It is a fairly large rectangle shape, which seems to look a little bit more pleasing to the eye than a carradice. The model is called the lowdale, if you care to look it up. As usual it sounds like you have another great VO product in the mix.
- Tom said...
anyone have a vintage Karrimore catalogue they would be willing to scan?
- Mr. Fink said...
Any large bag with shoulder strap would be great, as would a quick release function and somewhere to attach a blinky.
All necessary commuting in a big city I think.
Looking forward to what you come up with.
- Anonymous said...
I have a Carradice Barley, which is 7 liters I believe, and use it a lot. My only real problem with it is the angle--as patates frites noted, stuff spills out when you're loading it. I would even like a little more capacity, maybe 10 liters. And I definately prefer NOT having to use a suport.
Mark G.
- Unknown said...
Something around LSLF size, but...
I had a Schwinn-branded vinyl bag that was rather interesting...sort of like the Ostrich in shape, it was more wedge than loaf (loaf being the general shape of Carradice). It had a broad flat bottom that was stiffened. Worked pretty well.
These days I've gotten used to the rack idea, but I can see a bag like that being popular.
OTOH, I do wish sometimes that somebody would say "hey, this is what nylon is made for" and just make one of these out of ballistic cloth or cordura...
- Dad said...
If you want a Carradice bag, just order it directly from them. I recently did and it came in just a few days. The amount you save by not having to pay VAT is about equal to the shipping cost, so it's a wash. Also, I finally got one of those Bagman racks -- never used one before -- and they work great.
- Adrienne Johnson said...
I prefer round, although I could be converted to square. The thing I can not stand about Carradice bags is all of the damn branding on them. You can read those labels half a block away, and bikes are already covered in branding as it is- Shimano, TruVativ, SRAM.....it makes me crazy. I also think that too many buckles is an issue, too much time to get in and out and frustrating when you pick the wrong pocket.
- dori said...
I like the Acorn Bags, those are nicely done. Glad to see someone is doing the strap.
I also like the Minnehaha grocery bag; that's a good idea.
I used to have the problem of my Carradice hitting my legs until I got a frame properly my size. One way to solve this is to use a spacer between the post and the bag, then cinch it tight.
Let me bring up an issue, though. There's some items I am uncomfortable purchasing from Velo-Orange because I feel like it undercuts established producers of fine equipment. Why not get Carradice to produce an 'improved' bag? One with internal support? One that quickly hooks to the seat instead of buckling?
Forgive me, Adrienne, but I'm not sure what you mean about overly branded Carradice- My Nelson has only a little discrete grey metal plate with Carradice stamped into it. Perhaps you're referring to other models?
Bicycle Quarterly did an interesting comparison of handlebar bags. Interestingly, I think the nylon Arkel was heavier (and I think leaked?) than the canvas Berteau ones.
- Anonymous said...
I may be the odd man out here, but I really like the Carradice bags a LOT, and there is very little I'd want to change. I've had a Lowsaddle Longflap for seven years, and used it a bunch. The 15 liter size is great, and the longflap is very handy to have. I don't think it is too big... the weight is right under your saddle, and pretty centered. Handles fine. I've always used it with a Brooks, so I don't have any saddle attachment problems. Also, although I live in an urban area, I leave the bag on the bike all the time. I use a cable lock on the Brooks, and loop the cable through an aluminum tie-down on the Carradice. Also, I route the straps inside, rather than outside. So, the thief would have to cut the leather holding the tie-down off, AND get into the bag to undo the attachment to the seatpost. In other words, I'm not clamoring for a quick release. Also, I don't mind if the bag brushes my thigh. There are only a few changes I'd make. First, I'd try to incorporate some sort of stiffener, or at least fitting inside for one. I use a piece of chloroplast to help the bag keep its shape, but the piece moves around a bit inside the bag and tends to get in the way sometime. Maybe some tabs inside to hold it in place.
The other thing would be to make it a little more vertical, rather than at an angle. As it is, things don't fall out for me, but still, one worries. I like the internal drawstring the later and bigger Carradices have, but I will say that the coated nylon lost all its coating after a couple of years.
Otherwise, thumbs up for all the traditional Carradice features: three strap mounting, tie-downs, heavy waxed canvas, buckles, longflap.
- Tom said...
Carradice is at or near capacity. Their US dealers cannot get enough product. Wall bike has more bag models out of stock than in stock. That may be an issue of wall poorly anticipating demand, or having cashflow problems, but I think that's' a minority opinion. If VO could actually get in touch with carradice- and we would need to talk to someone other than a customer service person- that would be a great new change.
I also think Wall Bike and Peter White Cycles would be a little annoyed by the competition, if Carradice could actually accommodate additional production capacity. From my discussions with Carradice over the years, they are perfectly happy with the US sales and see no need to change anything about it.
- Tom said...
We also want to have a bag that is of that quality available to bike dealers. there is hardly any room for dealers with carradice as it is. berthoud too, if you can get them.
There is plenty of room out there for a decent waxed cotton saddlebag line and have it sold through dealers worldwide.
- Adrienne Johnson said...
Here is an example of too much branding (IMO). I have seen many Carradice bags like this one. I really dislike tags.
- Anonymous said...
I have had a Carradice Nelson Longflap for about 20 years. Slung under a variety of saddles, usually from Cyclo hoops, with no thigh problems. My vintage does not have the extra draw string bit, but I've never had issues with things falling out. It is just about the right size for my use, commuting with a butty box, change of clothes and occasionally a laptop, or trips to the library. It held a 5 litre petrol can this morning when my car ran out of fuel. I like the side pockets, one has a cable lock and a small fold up bag, the other a spare tube, some tools and in winter an emergency spare light.
I've just bought a new one (over the interweb from Spa Cycles) together with a Bagman. Not tried it yet as it is a christmas pressie.
QR is of no mind to me as it stays on the bike at all times. I usually put my stuff in a carrier bag and put that inside, rather than have stuff loose.
Long flap is a definite plus. External loops are useful but not essential.
- Tom said...
From alex Wetmore:
My only comment is that a large bag doesn't mean it needs to carry a
lot of weight. For lightweight camping there are three bulky items
which fit nicely into a saddlebag (and not into most handlebar bags). They are the tent or hammock, sleeping bag, and sleeping pad.
A Carradice Camper sized bag is borderline small for holding those
three items. In my setup the three items total 6lbs including the bag
(made by Custom Cycle Fitments back in the 70s or 80s).
The only saddlebag that I'd buy at the moment is a replacement of my
CCF bag. I'd prefer one made of Cordura (for weight).
My most used (not very often still) saddlebag is a Baggins Little Joe.
I think that one is about the perfect size for most day riding and light commute loads.
- Tom said...
From Robert:
I have a Karrimor and a Carradura [synthetic fabrics , still alive 20 years on]
the first has a stiffner pocket to slide something stiff into from the inside side
the other has a minirack and a pocket in the bottom to slide the bag over..
sway = zero
Karrimor a has a zip pouch on the flap
and the side pockets have a smooth curve to close its on 2 sides of the pocket
combining those + a sleeve to over fill and still have it held in there
and a reflective rear end of the bag..
- Anonymous said...
Carradice also do their SQR bags (eg) which are more like super-sized seatpacks than saddlebags, but which solve many of the gripes noted above (QR as standard, clear of thighs, no buckles etc). Not really in keeping with the VO ethos, but would probably be my choice if I was commuting on a racing bike.
- Jim G said...
Perhaps this bag conversion might provide some design inspiration...
- Anonymous said...
I'd love to have a good sub-$100 saddle bag for day trips, commuting, picnics, and so on. Right now, I've hacked a military surplus bag, but it's a kludge, and it's not waterproof. I think this is an open spot in the market. It will be very exciting if VO carries these.
- Anonymous said...
Thanks, Tom, for your excellent response. It helps me understand why the Carradice "knock-off" people are able to make a living at it.
"From my discussions with Carradice over the years, they are perfectly happy with the US sales and see no need to change anything about it."
So, are they going for the luxury product angle? No reason to evolve at all? Even if your competition is going to outpace you? I like their traditional aesthetic and values, but it's just stiltifiying to not add loops for a strap, or some internal support, or quick release hooks that aren't cumbersome. If this is their attitude, it doesn't bother me if they get added competition.
I'd like to see multi-colored bags. Here's an idea; talk to those people that make the messenger type bags. Their logo was the little swirl. Their popularity has been waning, maybe they'd be happy to start making saddlebags with the features people want. :)
- Anonymous said...
I am already satisfay with Croissant bag, but yes, I stay tuned about a bigger saddle bag...
The same canvas will be great.
- Anonymous said...
i like the ostrich's look and shape. I am thinking about using a saddlebag to replace some panniers on my city bike, since all i carry is a lock and toolkit. Since the lock weighs a bit, rigidity and stable mounting would be important, and it looks like the Ostrich "style" covers that pretty well.
As with so many things, I am glad to see there are more choices now than before.
- Tom said...
anon 23:43-
I've been thinking ot contacting some of the smaller bag makers. Maybe there is time for that soon. Timbuk 2 bags are waning inn popularity among the messenger and bike people, but their sales are skyrocketing across the larger population. Believe it or not, Middle america looks at a messenger bag and goes -wow- why is a man wearing such a large purse? Even in Annapolis, I get that reaction. Timbuk 2 is one of the few bag companies able to get their bags to a wider audience through bigger retailers and distributors. Chrome is like a distant 3rd.
Minihaha makes a nice canvas bag but it's not waxed cotton. Same thing with Acorn. Acorn bags are made in the states and are crafted in small batches when they can.
If we talk to a bag maker with the intent of making nylon bags, it's gonna be a smaller one, and they will not be cheap.
Anyone have suggestions or connections?
- Unknown said...
Thanks for taking this project on, Chris - I'm sure you'll come up withn something cool :-)
If this bag is targeted for commuters you might consider the minimum width required to carry most laptop computers (here in Silly-con Valley most people have to schlep one). I have a Nelson Longflap that fits the width of my 14" screen IBM just perfectly. With a change of clothes, my laptop, and a coily cable lock for quick stops by the market it weighs in the neigoborhood of 10 lbs, which rides pretty well even without a bag support. In fact, I think the PC rides better w/o a support, since it dangles and does not come down hard against a rack if I hit a pothole. I'm honestly not sure if it hits my legs or not when I ride; if it does I don't notice it (but I'll think about this on the way home today). Good luck!
- Willem said...
I am not so sure we really need another saddle bag. The only exception I can think of would be a superb high tech Ortlieb variation on the theme. If done in their black cordura it could look sufficiently restrained.
What we do need is one or more better supports. It would need to have the convenience of the SQR support, be slightly more stable, and have Nitto looks. Or, alternatively, an easily removable small rack that is supported by the bike frame rather than the saddle rails (as that puts even more strain on the seatpost).


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Collection Information
The collection level record is important for several reasons.
- It serves to provide basic information about the collection at the collection level in our preservation repository, which will enable archivists of the future to determine what is in this directory and whether to reconstruct it;
- It serves to provide the information that enables a script to select an appropriate icon for each collection, which shows up in the collection browse interface;
- It serves to provide the information displayed in the collection browse interface;
- It contains information that is fed into the InfoTrack database for tracking the digitized collections;
- It provides the title used for the LOCKSS manifest for the collection, to assist in digital preservation, and
- It provides a landing page in Acumen for collections that do not have EAD finding aids.
The collection XML file should be uploaded with the first batch of TIFF files to the libcontent server by using a moveContent script, after the uploaded delivery content (jpegs, mp3s, metadata) have been indexed by Acumen. If the collection XML file is uploaded prior to indexing, the link to the collection from the collection browse page will be a dead link.
If you are the first person to work on a manuscript collection, you should create an xml file (using the 'Notepad' program on the PC; or 'TextEdit' on the Mac, saving as ANSI/ASCII text on Windows and as UTF-8 on the Mac) that contains the following information, in this order and using the following template, with no carriage returns (newlines) or formatting within any element.
Please make sure that all encoding saved in these files (like the tab-delimited files from the Excel exports) is either ANSI ASCII, or UTF-8. That means, if any Word or PDF content was cut and pasted and transferred into these files – overwrite all the quotes, hyphens, apostrophes, and non-keyboard encodings with plain text or UTF-8 unicode. Otherwise they'll be garbage. In addition, if you MUST use "&", encode it as & so it won't break the xml.
Save the file in the Admin folder for the collection, naming it for the collection itself. Thus, u0003_0000252.xml for the Cabaniss papers.
If more than one digital collection is created for a given analog collection, distinguish following collection file names sequentially as if they are pages. That is, if we return to the Cabaniss Papers and digitize some descriptions of tigers in Africa, the collection xml file for this second set of content would be saved as u0002_0000252_002.xml, and the original xml file should have "_001" appended onto the name prior to the xml prefix, as at that point, u0002_0000252.xml becomes the first in a sequence (u0003_0000252_001.xml), rather than a representation of the complete analog collection.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <collInfo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://libcontent.lib.ua.edu/digital/schemas/collectionXML.xsd"> <Digital_Collection_Name></Digital_Collection_Name> <Alphabetized_By></Alphabetized_By> <Type_Of_Content></Type_Of_Content> <Analog_Collection_Name></Analog_Collection_Name> <Manuscript_Number></Manuscript_Number> <Finding_Aid_Link></Finding_Aid_Link> <Digital_Collection_Description></Digital_Collection_Description> </collInfo>
Step by step instructions
This section describes how to make Collection Information XML files from "scratch" using the file: S:\Digital Projects\Organization\Digital Program\Selection.xlsx.
In general, most of the the values such as Digital Collection Name, etc. are already in the Descriptive Metadata spreadsheets handed to us by the archivists as well as the TrackingFilenames spreadsheet. That is to say that most of the work in determining such values is already done by the Archivists.
All of this information should be available from the S:\Digital Projects\Organization\Digital Program\Selection.xlsx which was filled in by the archivists. If this information is not available in the given spreadsheet, please contact the archivists to ask for it.
See this page for information on matching values across documents.
Entering information into the template
- Insert values between the the two tags that make up a field. For example: <sample_tag>text</sample_tag>
- Do NOT add extra spaces before or after the value within a field. For example, this would be INCORRECT: <sample_tag> text </sample_tag>
- Do NOT insert new lines into a field. For example, this would be INCORRECT: <sample_tag>text
more text</sample_tag>
- Enter value from "Project Name" column
- This value -- exactly! -- must be entered in the digital collection column of the metadata spreadsheet for each object, so that we can retrieve all the contents of a collection with a search.
- Enter value from "Alphabetize" column
- IF THIS VALUE IS NOT AVAILABLE, enter what makes sense. This is NOT an optional field! It determines how things appear on our collections page.
- DO NOT precede the value in the "Alphabetized By" element with "a", "an", or "the". We don't want to sort things by definite or indefinite articles.
- Enter value from "Genre/Type" column
- These are the only acceptable values: book, image, text, audio, video, mixed media, finding aid, score, other.
- This value determines what icon will be displayed, if we do NOT have one for this collection -- so choose wisely. Most manuscript content should be "text". Sheet music should be "score".
- USE ONE TYPE ONLY (for example, DO NOT enter 'image; text' -- choose ONE).
- Enter value from "Name of Analog Collection" column
- More information on the Analog Collection Title is here: Analog Collection Title
- Enter value from "Manuscript Number" column
- Always give in this format: MS ####.
- Exception: When the official manuscript number is given in a different format, use that number as-is.
- Example: RG.001 (manuscript number from University Archives).
- Insert the collection purl into this field:
- If the collection has an EAD it already has a purl and you can find it by going to the EAD on acumen and click view source and it is right at the top. It should look like this: http://purl.lib.ua.edu/###### (with actual numbers)
- Search for the Analog Collection name in these 2 places:
- [| The new interface] ... here, enter the collection number, for example, for MS 252, enter http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/u0003_0000252
- [| The old interface]
If you find a live link to a finding aid, enter it in the above field. If you do not, leave the field empty. NOTE: If inputting the collection number to Acumen gets you something, but it's not a finding aid, it's probably a default link to the very xml you're trying to create. Which means it's already in Acumen, and you don't need to make it. Do not put this link in the Finding Aid Link field. If no finding aid can be found, leave this field blank.
If you did not find a Manuscript Number in the spreadsheet, but you do find a finding aid online, use the finding aid to fill in the Manuscript Number field. If possible, use 4 digits for the MS number, left-padding with zeros so that MS 14 would be written MS 0014. Always give the Manuscript Number in this format: MS 1632
Alternative forms the Manuscript number may currently have, in the filename or elsewhere:
- ms_1952.pdf would be MS 1952
- Reference Code USALM1952 would be MS 1952
- MSS.0630 would be MS 0630 or MS 630
- u0003_0000252 would be MS 0252 or MS 252
- Enter value from "Blurb" column
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<collInfo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://libcontent.lib.ua.edu/digital/schemas/collectionXML.xsd">
<Digital_Collection_Name>Septimus D. Cabaniss Papers</Digital_Collection_Name>
<Alphabetized_By>Cabaniss, S. D.</Alphabetized_By>
<Analog_Collection_Name>The S.D. Cabaniss Papers, 1820-1937</Analog_Collection_Name>
<Manuscript_Number>MS 0252</Manuscript_Number>
<Digital_Collection_Description>Materials from the papers of this nineteenth-century Madison County, Alabama, attorney who drafted a controversial will for wealthy planter Samuel Townsend which manumitted certain slaves and designated them as Townsend's primary heirs. Selected items include Townsend's will, a deposition given by S.D. Cabaniss concerning his role in the estate, and a report by Rev. William D. Chadick discussing the prospect of settling the newly-manumitted Townsend heirs in Ohio.</Digital_Collection_Description>


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