Originally Posted by
rousseau
Who walks around when riding a road bike?
It's a road bike, not the bike you take to the pub, or to the grocery store, or to the Yukon with panniers attached. This issue is a category error.
My rides work like this: ten ambulatory steps out to the shed where the bike is stored > two hours+ riding during which only the wheels touch the ground > ten ambulatory steps from the shed back to the house. That's a total of twenty steps. Witnessed by no one.
If you consistently find yourself participating in impromptu tap dancing demonstrations during rides on your road bike, well, I'd venture to suggest that you're doing it wrong.
We'll, my bike gets used for a variety: group and solo road rides, commuting to work, or to some evening meeting if It's a good excuse to ride rather than drive, riding around on our quiet street with a 4-yr old kid...etc...I once rode to a choir rehearsal, directed the rehearsal, then rode home with no clothes or shoe changes (no spandex for that ride).