On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 10:28:03 AM UTC-7, Brian Campbell wrote: > > Sell everything but the Sam and buy northing else. Chances are you will be > just fine, since the Sam can do all of the riding and eventual kid hauling > (Congratulations!) that you will likely do. Set it up with new > bars/saddle/rack if you need to. > > I have 2 bikes my AHH and a 1989 Trek 950 mountain bike. I have divested > myself of bikes in the double digit number range and I love the simplicity > of it. If it is not single track riding, AHH. If I am riding trails, Trek. > > Swapping wheels, while not complicated is an added complication. When > little ones arrive, your "free time" tends to get taken up pretty quickly, > completely and often times, unexpectedly. Anything that adds an additional > layer of management makes it more complicated than it has to be. It is just > one more possible impediment to actually riding when your time is not your > own anymore. >
I don't understand this statement - "Swapping wheels, while not complicated is an added complication." So you're recommending this guy "sell everything" and just ride. I get that. But then what happens if he breaks a spoke or something happens to his wheels?! Shouldn't a spare/backup/extra set of wheels be available?! Otherwise, if something happens to his one pair, he's out and can't ride at all?! Further, I don't know the OP nor do I know his mechanical abilities, but swapping wheels is not complicated nor does it add any kind of complication. After all, he has to take off and put on a wheel if he gets a flat?! As a single parent having to raise two girls, by myself since they were 6 and 8, there were times I couldn't get to the bike. Having a backup set of wheels or 3 ;) was very helpful when I did find time to ride and found a broken spoke. Of course, YMMV! Good Luck! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
