Originally Posted by 1242Vintage

Today was a challenging commute ...

I have a hybrid commute, 10 mile drive and 25 mile bike ride. When I got to the train station parking lot at 5 a.m. where I unload the bike and start my bike ride to the office I realize I left my good/powerful headlight on the charger at home. No problem, I have a little spare Planet Bike headlight in the car. Clamped it on the bike and took off. Good enough.

Couple of miles down the bikeway the spare headlight cuts out. Dead battery! No problem I have a little baggie of spare batteries in my backpack.

Darn, the headlight takes AA batteries and I only have AAA. No problem, I'll just hang out on the side of the bikeway and wait a few minutes for some fellow commuters and I'll follow them down the path. Couple came by and I followed them for a while.

Few more miles and as I was shifting the right shifter broke, snapped really, and it was in the smallest little gear on the cassette. That slowed me way down and I couldn't keep up with the couple I was following anymore. No problem, by that time I was on a pretty flat section, sunrise was coming and was getting light enough to see without a headlight.

Got to work and no hot water. Quick cold shower to clean up, no problem.

Mid-morning I took broken bike over to local bike shop to get the SRAM Rival shifter fixed. Needs to be replaced the tech says. It's under warranty and SRAM sending new one to the shop, just a modest labor charge to install and will be here in a few days. No problem. Left the bike at the shop to get fixed.

Took the train back home.