Originally Posted by Hatsuwr

This took off! Thanks for the discussions and suggestions everyone. So I'm still looking around the $600 price range, and leaning a bit more toward the Mavic Ksyrium Elite UST's right now.
Although as Dedhed pointed out, the Open Pro UST's + 6800 hubs could be had for $340+140 for tires - so roughly the same price.

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Thoughts between the two?


As far as the E-Bike goes - I can do the route in about an hour each way on my current (bad) setup. I'm in the military and work in a place where locking up isn't necessary, and my uniform could be left at work. All I would carry is food, water, and music - probably in a frame bag.. All said, considering overheads, it's about 1.5 hours more per day to ride than to drive. PT is a fact of life, so this would offset maybe a half hour per day of that. They're also working on a bike bridge that will cut about 3-4 miles off the route each way. No saying when that will be done though.