Cargo
One of my bicycles had been taken out of commission because I clipped a wet manhole cover during a 20mph turn – the rear wheel slid across the manhole cover and tacoed itself into oblivion when it reached the edge. After seeing if I could retrue the wheel (this failed when the pin joint separated when I was trying to flatten the warp) I shopped around for a replacement rim, and discovered to my intense disgust that it would cost me more to buy a new rim and spokes than it would cost for me to get a new rear wheel, so I bought a new wheel instead of doing it myself.
The problem was that tacoed wheel was from my trek, which is traditionally the bicycle I use to carry large awkward things like wheels. I can carry a wheel on my back, but after shattering my shoulder I’ve gotten a little shy about strapping things around either of my shoulders.
So what to do…
So what I did was to pull out the project bike, which has been refitted with 35mm Resist Nomad tires (33.5mm actual) to get a little bit of debris clearance under the fenders, and which now has the Brooks Professional saddle that was on the Trek (I moved the Swift over to the Trek because I only use that bicycle for shopping trips these days,) and loaded it up with a bunch of toestraps and webbing belts, then (after riding up to the LBS) strapped the wheel onto the side of the porteur rack.
It is fortunate that I spend most of my time riding in the drops, because the rim fouled my right brifter and made it so I couldn’t actually shift or brake unless I was in the drops. But it was only about 9 miles home, and then I could reassemble the Trek and have, once again, two working bicycles (we shall see what happens with the Swift; hopefully someone will buy it and I can use that money to get another Pro, or maybe it will magically become wide enough for me to sit on it without it being annoying.)