Hey guys, my wife and I started bike riding and were having a blast. We even have one of those bike trailers to pull our one year old twin girls in. After realizing how much the bike riding was I decided to start commuting back and forth to the Firehouse (work). It's 4.8 miles to the Firehouse from my house, not bad at all. I've been riding this cheap Mongoose Mountain bike and realized that it wasn't cutting it. So started doing research and went to some bike shops yesterday. Well I came home with a brand new Trek 8.3 dual sport. Man what a dream, it's light comfortable, has disk breaks and just rides awesome. Oh did I mention its light? I didn't realize how heavy that mongoose I had was. I rode my new Trek to work this morning for the first time, before it was taking me 30minutes to travel 4.8 miles and now with the Trek I made it in 18 minutes! No lie! Anyway, I have a couple of questions that you guys may be able to help me out with.

The bike trailer that I have for the kids won't hook up to my new bike because its made to hook to a bike with a nut that you tighten to hold the rim on. The Trek has that fancy lever that you pull and the wheel comes of. So there's nothing for me to hook the attachment to. Do y'all know of something I can buy are modify to make it work?

Second, I need fenders for it. Where can I buy fenders specifically for a 2013 Trek 8.3 DS?

Third, there's only 35,456,567 dogs that chase me and I'm getting pretty burnt out with that. I was reading the other guys thread about lemon juice in a bottle. Anything else out there I can try?

I'll bet yuo can find "hybrid" fenders at a bike shop near you.

The bike shop I went to had fenders but not for the new bike I bought. There 1 hour away so I was kinda hoping to find some online.

I've never had to deal with this, so I'm not much help; but I wouldn't feel bad about a well placed kick. If the dogs' owners won't train them not to attack bicyclists, I will.

Yea its pretty fustrating to have to constantly look for them, because some are sneaky and run up silently than grab you on the ankle. Im a Firefighter and one of our local Police guys just stopped by the Firehouse and I was telling him about it. He gave me a big can of pepper spray. I think if I hit them several times with it they will get the point.