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12-25-22, 07:29 PM

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cyccommute

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Originally Posted by Sy Reene

You lost me there.. Pittsburg CO is 2000 miles away from where you live?
Or, somewhere in the US they don't take credit cards but instead only accept XXX?

I am in the habit of riding all over the US far from Colorado. Who am I going to call if I need someone to pick me up? I can’t call my wife or my children if they are 2000 miles away. I have no family or friends close by. Being able to fix my own bike sufficiently to keep me moving down the road is an important skill I have honed over decades. Failures of a kind that would keep me from riding have been few and very far between but I’m still ready if something happens that needs to be fixed or needs to be MacGyvered to get me to where I can work on my own bike.

If I’m in the backcountry, I make sure that not only do I have the tools to fix any reasonable problem but I also have survival gear.

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