Originally Posted by crtreedude
Some people even commute on a (shudder) Walmart bike...
The horror!
There's a guy that I pass most evenings, commuting on an X-mart bike. I know he's commuting, because he's got a work shirt with a factory logo from right up the street, so he's coming off a midday shift. You can hear him coming from 100' away, bike creaking like a cheap motel bedspring. I swear, the only oil it ever gets is if he rides through an oily puddle on the road. Yet, he's out there every day.
I think it's funny to see him out there in the rain, snow, cold, etc. on his $100 platform pedal beast, chugging along in his workboots and jeans every day and then it gets to be 50 degrees and dry out so the fairweather club riders make it back outside and give this guy the "you've gotta be kidding me" look as they whip past him; never realizing that he's got the dedication they wish they had.