The rear tire on my Trek 1.2 was flat this morning. I think that it's the fourth rear flat that I needed to fix since January. Instead of taking the time to replace the tube, I turned to the old Quest Crestwood. The transition from road racer to the cheap mountain bike was jarring. The barrels passing as tires were a sight. But they made short work of the debris that was still on the bike lanes after all of the storms. It only took my 65 minutes to get in, or ten minutes longer than on the Trek. Now I am thinking of setting the Quest up as my bad weather commuter and short errand bike (when I normally drive) by adding fenders, moving the rack and paniers, getting another cage for a water bottle and also moving the pedals and toe clips to the Quest.
The Trek will get clipless pedals, a handlebar bag for lunches and small clothes, a seat bag for tools and tube. Hopefully this will get more weight off my rear tire. This will be the my fair weather commuter.
The Quest will have the rack, panniers, the old Trek pedals and fenders and I use it to transport clothes for the week to the office and ride in wet weather and after storms until debris. Since it's a cheap bike, I'm not too worried about the rain. Hopefully I can get this setup fairly soon.
2008 totals:
$73.22 saved in gasoline
23.05 gallons saved
750 miles not driven
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