Gearing Up for Bikes
As brand-new bike people go, I'd say my hubby and I pretty well equipped when it comes to bike gear. Not because we had tons of money to just go out and buy it, we didn't. But once the decision to go carless was made, every paycheck I would crunch the numbers and figure out what Bike Thing we needed I could squeeze into that pay cycle. Sometimes it was a larger purchase, like a (as in, one) Kyroptonite U-lock . Another week it was a CO2 tire filler thingy ; the actual cartridges came weeks later. The first thing we bought was a bicycle pump with a tire repair kit and that was four months before we went carless and six months before we got our bikes. I seriously considered suggesting a celebratory dinner the week we pulled off decent bungee cords. Slowly but surely, our Bike Stuff shelf in the garage began to fill up. Once we had our bikes and figured out what else we needed, we got that stuff, too. But this post will focus on the preparatory gear, as it were. Wh...