Originally Posted by
Phamilton
I haven’t commuted since Wednesday. I worked from home Thursday due to storms and shop was closed for Good Friday. It’s been raining basically non stop since Thursday.
I put flat bars back on my daily bike but haven’t ridden much on it yet. I don’t know which bike I will take to work on Monday but will probably be the hybrid since I have a full load of luggage. But maybe I can put the rear rack back on the Voyageur and see how it does fully loaded. It’s nice to feel spoiled for choice after riding the same bike daily since November, how ever many months or miles that is. Edit: I’ve been thinking for quite a while that it would be nice to have a couple bikes for commuting, a fast, light, nimble one for fair weather and a big cushy truck for hauling and not so fair weather. Be curious to know if anybody else has done this.
Many of us do that, for exactly those reasons. You can have a fun ride on a light bike that can't do much when the weather is good and you don't have to carry much. Then have a slow ride on a bike that can take a beating and carry stuff when you have to or when the weather makes things rough.