Can I let you in on a secret...I never liked my bike
Posted: Sun Dec 09, 2012 6:40 pm
When I bought my bike I didn't buy the bike for any other reason than I wanted one and it was the cheapest I could find that seemed to do the job.
After years of trouble with my knees I honestly didn't expect to own it longer than a season and looked at it as a cheap experiment that I could sell for about half what i paid for it and I'd be finished with this foolishness.
As it turns out I was wrong. My knees have improved if anything, I use the bike at least once a week to go to work, I use it nearly all the time outside work hours for small journeys to shops, to the pool, to the gym and so on.
Trouble is I never really liked my bike. I thought the colour was awful and I don't like the look of it. I am surprised I bother to take care of it and can only guess this is because I enjoy using it so much.
I was half thinking I might replace it. After all it is coming into the middle of the second summer with it. I am using it a lot more than I intended. The bike was cheap as I said and I kind of think aybe I should get something I do like.
However is it right or enough to justify changing just because I don't like the colour scheme? I considered getting it painted, but I know me and this will only be a stop gap at best. So thoughts and suggestions on evaluating my needs better this time around.
My current bike is a Schwinn Le Tour Elite, and no I didn't buy it as it had a french word in the name. It was really cheap at the time and seemed great value to me.
After years of trouble with my knees I honestly didn't expect to own it longer than a season and looked at it as a cheap experiment that I could sell for about half what i paid for it and I'd be finished with this foolishness.
As it turns out I was wrong. My knees have improved if anything, I use the bike at least once a week to go to work, I use it nearly all the time outside work hours for small journeys to shops, to the pool, to the gym and so on.
Trouble is I never really liked my bike. I thought the colour was awful and I don't like the look of it. I am surprised I bother to take care of it and can only guess this is because I enjoy using it so much.
I was half thinking I might replace it. After all it is coming into the middle of the second summer with it. I am using it a lot more than I intended. The bike was cheap as I said and I kind of think aybe I should get something I do like.
However is it right or enough to justify changing just because I don't like the colour scheme? I considered getting it painted, but I know me and this will only be a stop gap at best. So thoughts and suggestions on evaluating my needs better this time around.
My current bike is a Schwinn Le Tour Elite, and no I didn't buy it as it had a french word in the name. It was really cheap at the time and seemed great value to me.