Originally Posted by
D00M
Finally found the right commuter. Dirt cheap Walmart Ozark Trail G.1 Explorer for $288. Works great as commuter. More efficient and faster, especially going into headwind.
Ozark Trail G.1 Explorer on very early morning commute. Beautiful morning light.
The lesson here (for you, anyway) is that your position makes the most difference, not the value of the equipment. Are you, by chance, thin? I'm a thin person, and headwinds affect me a lot, and hills don't. A heavy friend has the opposite observation. I think it's the surface-area-to-mass ratio.