>>1992477I did that after my job went office-optional and I quit the "nice" gym by my work in favor of the cheaper one by my apartment. I had the steel barge from the "virgin commuter" meme with all the meme commuter bits. Tubus, ortlieb, SKS, you name it. Also had obtained a legit (carbon) road bike the year before the pandemic when I became fredpilled. I do, in fact, ride it on interstates, but not often.
So at a certain point I'm like, why do I still have this commuter. My groceries get delivered. If I commute to the office, it's like once a month and I'm not going to shower and change. And it's just not fun anymore to ride a clumsy steel barge, especially since I can just citi bike if I want to be slow and wobble around the neighborhood and make drivers scared I'm some incompetent noob who will crash into them. So I sold it (the whole package including the panniers) to some kid studying to be a nurse or something.
I do have decent tire clearance though - I run 700x32 (tubeless like the KOM crush chad). My fred sled is more comfy than the barge ever was. The crabbon frame absorbs the road noise more, plus it's more agile if I want to steer around something.
tl;dr get rid of the barge, and don't look back. You won't miss it. I don't. The only thing is, chicks dug my barge because it was "pretty" and everyone thought it was "custom" lol. But I'm a raging faggot I do not require "chicks" (who do not appreciate my fred sled at all)
