{"id":547,"date":"2011-08-30T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wabikes.org\/2011\/08\/30\/can-a-commuter-morph-into-a-roadie\/"},"modified":"2011-08-30T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T15:00:00","slug":"can-a-commuter-morph-into-a-roadie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wabikes.org\/index.php\/2011\/08\/30\/can-a-commuter-morph-into-a-roadie\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a commuter morph into a roadie?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I ride my bike nearly everyday, although I don&#8217;t log very many miles. I live about 2 miles from my work, so my daily mileage is around 7-10 miles, depending on how many errands I run, or if I decide to take the &#8216;long way home&#8217;. Every once in a while I have to go to a meeting in a neighboring town, if that&#8217;s the case I may ride up to 25 miles round trip. I do this on my commuter bike. I don&#8217;t own a road bike, however, I may soon.<\/p>\n<p>During the hubbub of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.letour.fr\/indexus.html\">Tour de France<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.cascade.org\/content\/events\/stp\">STP<\/a> my brother threw out an idea: &#8220;Why don&#8217;t we try and do the STP next year or the year after&#8221;. You see, he recently inherited our child bike seat and has been biking all over Renton with his almost two year old. He&#8217;s been bitten by the bike bug and I couldn&#8217;t be happier.<\/p>\n<p>I thought about his challenge, the STP, huh? Well, the furthest I&#8217;ve ridden in one day is 30 miles, and that was to go to work meetings, so it was split up. Also, like I said above, I don&#8217;t own a road bike. As much as the idea of doing a LONG ride (60+ miles) on Fred, my Big Dummy Complete intrigues me, I&#8217;m pretty sure my body would be happier with an actual road bike. Not to mention the skinny tires, it&#8217;d be so much easier, well as easy as 60+ miles can be.<a href=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/514PgDpz-iL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/514PgDpz-iL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: right; height: 146px; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; width: 146px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now I&#8217;m in the conundrum of buying another bike. But I&#8217;m a commuter, not a roadie. I don&#8217;t know the first thing about road bikes. If you&#8217;ve read the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Bike-Snob-Systematically-Mercilessly-Realigning\/dp\/0811869989\">Bike Snob, <\/a>you can laugh with me about the different types of bicyclists and how they may or may not get along. If you haven&#8217;t read it, you should, it&#8217;s hilarious!<\/p>\n<p>A trip to my local bike shop was educational, I learned a lot about road bikes and the different components. I&#8217;m still not sold yet, I&#8217;ll admit. While I can justify spending a lot of money on my commuter bike, we only own one car, I&#8217;m getting exercise, it&#8217;s awesome, I use it every day, etc. It&#8217;s harder for me to justify spending a lot on a road bike that I will ride a couple times a week. So to answer the question, can a commuter morph into a roadie? I honestly don&#8217;t know. I like the idea of doing a century, I&#8217;m just not so sure about the the spandex and $800+ price tag of a new bike.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? Can you convince me to do it? Do you have a similar story to share? Do you have tips on buying a road bike?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ride my bike nearly everyday, although I don&#8217;t log very many miles. 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