@ascentale @Cyclist @bikenite A3. I think the answer is personal, i.e. check your heart and wallet. Anything on a bike can be fixed. If a steel tube has failed, it can be replaced.

However, the intersection between cost and is it worth it is an answer only you can find (and it is probably in a fuzzy grey area).

I’m currently collecting the bits to rebuild a frame from ‘91. I will spend way moe than I paid for it, most likely more than an equivalent new bike, but sentimentally I don’t want to let it go. I’ve ridden this bike on three continents. We have a history together.

Good luck! #BikeNight

@ascentale @bikenite A1. Santa Clara, CA. I don’t really need motivation, usually I’m just “I need a break” and so I’m off. This is the second week in a row I made a sandwich, stuffed it into my jersey, and rode to the park in Alviso for lunch.

I was rewarded with 4 egrets, 1 green heron, numerous Canadian geese and mallards, and some seeming very large brown fish in the “creek” along the bike path. #BikeNight

@ascentale @grammasaurus @bikenite A7. Continued, I just remembered, on my way home from the grocery store there was a guy standing in front of a gas station with a handheld sign complaining about the high California gas taxes. I think $3.85/gallon.

Something like “California gas taxes are $3.85/G, vote smarter”

I almost rode back and to say I agreed, they should be $5/G, but then I thought, is that high enough?

This is part of a campaign with plenty of signage deploring high gas taxes at Chevron stations. Really bugs me (along with the signs sticking way out from the pumps, right where the driver door often is). #BikeNight