Quote Originally Posted by shootingstar View Post
I do unhook and carry my panniers around. Yea, a bit of a pain but I've done it for so many years now.
So much of what I do related to my bike is so routine now I don't even notice. Like locking & unlocking, takes me just seconds, and it's just part of the ride. But when I started, it seemed like it took forever!

I guess anything is like that. Even getting in & out of the car, I could take a long time doing stuff like buckling the kid in her carseat, stashing my bag and/or purse and/or whatever else somewhere--oops, not on the kid--finding my sunglasses, running back in for this that and the other that we forgot, turning around at the first stopsign to run back for something else forgotten.

She's almost a teen now and this isn't quite the ordeal it used to be...still, my point is we get used to these little things that were such a pain.