Crankyfeet said:
Okay... what's a "travel workout ride" JTE?
Wow, you got lots of great bikes with cool features. Why didn't you tell us earlier?...
I work at Jacobs.com, which does NASA related contract jobs for the Space Shuttle, Space Station, etc. People get paid well here. A coworker that's just a Designer with 15 years experience drives a base model Porsche 911 2002 used for $50K.
A travel ride - ride using my bike to save gas for errands like picking up my prescriptions.
A workout - just biking continuosly for the exercise.
A travel workout - I combine stopping by errands or interesting places to shop going long distance, getting a workout in the process, but I end up biking all in the streets. So I feel I'm a nuisance to cars.
My last long distance travel workout was only 36 miles, but I got to see a lot of places in Houston. Problem is public transportation here sucks so I'm toast if my bike breaks down. Like running into upright nails in the street punching big unrepairable holes in your tires - this happened to me in Chicago but the bus with bike racks took me home cheap.
My 7 road bikes -
2006 Cf Cervelo Soloist Team
2004 AL Cervelo Soloist Team
2005 Kestrel Talon
2006 Raleigh Prestige
2005 Giant OCR 1 [commuter bike]
2007 Trek Pilot 2.1 Spa [travel workout bike]
2002 Giant TCR Aero 2
All have powermeters except for the OCR 1, which is now my cheap sacrifical winter commuter bike. It partly corroded from winter salt so I had a hard time selling it [didn't try well] but decided to keep it if I don't get more than $650 for it without rack and panniers.
I do travel workout rides in Houston because Houston Parks are a boring place to ride compared to Chicago's awesome Lake Shore Drive Bike Path. After work I do workouts in a criterium like circular path near my APT - it's 1.3 miles a loop.