I've always been rather gentle on any bicycles (and motorcycles, and cars) that I've owned, so I tend to ride them in the mode they were originally designed for. Oh, I ride them, in all sorts of weather, but I've never been one to spend major money on anything and then beat it.
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Syke
“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
H.L. Mencken, (1926)