Originally Posted by bostontrevor
a) I don't know how you people with gears do it. Don't get me wrong, I definitely felt some serious serotonin juicing every time I shifted, but I never felt like I had the right gear (ironic, given that my other rides are all fixed gears and I feel so much more comfortable there) and I was constantly shifting based on traffic, hills, lights, etc.
Shifting may have been easier with STI shifters. I remember my old '85 Schwinn LeTour with downtube shifters. What a pain compared to todays shift levers.
Originally Posted by bostontrevor
b) As I'm clocking down the street after just leaving my house, I crest a little rise only to see that there's a work crew doing some sewery stuff on Mission Hill just on my left. Wouldn't you know it, the entire street width is covered with shallow puddle of effluent. And it smelled terrible. I slowed way down as I went through, but I could feel it spraying off the tires onto my legs. Sure wished I had some fenders.
Hey, you're not getting my fenders if you're going to be riding through that stuff.
I think I would have turned and gone over to another street to bypass that stuff.
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