Originally Posted by
rothenfield1
I like this bike. I just spent more then that building up a 99 Allez sport Alum. If I had only known!
I place part of the blame on city planners. There just aren't many safe riding paths for kids to ride on. You'd think that at least elementary schools would have riding paths connecting them to their nearest housing developments....
I don't blame this on city planners, though I can certainly understand the rationale for having safe riding paths for elementary school kids. On the whole I don't think the quiet residential streets that lead to most elementary schools pose a great threat to educated, competent, youthful cyclists.
In high school, a friend and I rode 110 miles one day on our heavy steel, lugless old road bikes, on old US 99, North of Seattle. We had no problems other than sore butts. We would have taken a car, if we had one.