Just a long term Anchorage commuter, I'm not "hardcore" and when it's solid ice and ruts I tend to walk instead
. I generally do between 9 to 15,000 miles a year between quite a few bikes. Normally with racks full of important supplies. . . like. . um. . beer from the brewery down the street. . .yeah. ..
specialized hardrock (managed to break everything but the frame and learned to replace it all)
schwinn suburban (boy did I HATE fixing the FFS)
schwinn city speedster (no clue on year, have to scrape the awful patch paint off at some point)
schwin varsity fixie
redline monocog (building a new set of wheels for this at the moment)
Adzuke market bike
Been learning to do most of my own maint over the past few years after some rather substandard repairs locally (besides, I've established that while shops SHOULD charge for repairs my own time is worthless). Let me tell you how much fun it was to find most of a bottle of loctite holding a headset in place when I went to replace it.
In any case I like bicycles!
Yep!