My bf and I have some old $50 beater bikes that we use for casual around-town riding. We spent the morning and the evening on them yesterday, tooling around the beach.

Morning ride turned out I had my back break rubbing the whole time - wondered why I was so slow! It had nothing to do with the giant breakfast burrito or the bloody mary I had.

Evening ride, headed out to see the fireworks, got a mile down the road and the entire pedal crank fell off of the bike my bf was riding! He scooted it back home, grabbed his road bike and we got back on the road, arriving at the beach just in time for the fireworks show to start. Woohoo!

All in all, got 15 miles of stop-start in on a heavy ol' bike. My road bike will fly like the wind today!