hmph

So this was going to be an excited post. I picked up my old road bike (ie my mom's really old road bike) and got it set up for commuting. This means I no longer have to change shoes for my short 4 mile rides, and I have a bag rack on the back, and fenders. It makes the bike commuting much easier, not having to dress different for the biking parts of the day. I also picked up some of the velcro straps that keep your jeans from getting caught in the gears.

I biked to the bus, and then from the bus back home in the evening. And discovered that going up my super humongous long hill... is actually not too hard on this bike. I guess the gearing goes significantly lower. While I still went into the lowest gear, I could make it the whole way up without struggling, and at the top my legs where not shaking, and super tired...

I'm not sure what to think about my new bike now. Its 30 years new, full of all these new technologies, but in the end climbing a big hill just comes down to an easier gear ratio... Maybe I wasted money on getting a new bike? The new one is way lighter, and its nice to not have to fiddle with the gears I guess... Hmph.