Originally Posted by orange
Ditto what gilby said!
I stopped by the expensive bike shop the other day for a tube. I was like "$8 for a tube?!" The sales dude quips, "find another sport!" fluk that, this is my transportation!
$8?!~?!!~?
tubes at my shop are $3.95 for normal tubes, presta, schraeder, any size, and $5.95 for long-stem presta tubes...$4.95 for the stupid 24x3.0 electra fatti-O tubes that we had to special order, and that i'm almost certain no one will ever buy.
oh yeah, i use my bike as my primary transportation as well, but i see no reason why i can't get out on the weekends for long, relaxing, get-away-from-the-freeway-ridden-smog-infested-go-go-fast-fast-now-now-now-world rides.
GF has a car. been telling her lately that she needs to stop driving it, because she's always so worked up and grumpy when she gets home, and that's not good for her. but she needs the car to get to school (school in SF, we live in berkeley, and BART is a tremendous pain in the ass, plus it's like, $10 round-trip to get from our house to her school, 5 days a week, from august to may...) she does carpool though...