Getting to 5 years soon, and been skating and blading + metro/busses (to go cross-states). Bike is definitely an insanely nice addition of speed and safety/possibility to go up and down the hills (uphill sucks on a board or blades, downhill MUCH moreso on blades since T-braking gets sketchy if you build enough speed or hill is that long) with a few grand worth of photo equipment on my back. And if there's a rain sprinkle...... bike can handle it fine