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We have a trip to Bentonville coming up and my wife has been looking around for a new bike and fell in love with the 27.5" Trek Fuel EX 9.8 she test rode. Got a decent clearance deal since it's a 2021 Gen 5 so I pulled the trigger. Going to surprise her with it when she gets home today.

I thought @ATXZJ had a Rotor/Wheel cover that was meant to help.

Also, a cover like that will slap and rub the bike over the many areas of contact possibly damaging the finish.

Have you done much riding in Cloudcroft since the move? I went a couple of years ago but ended up not taking the bike as I didn’t want to leave it on the rack at Carlsbad Caverns for a couple of hours unattended. Probably heading there again later this summer.

Please don’t do this. You are going to create a sail for your vehicle constructed from your beloved bicycle. This will add to the unsupported load of your hitch with the added drag and strain the parts of your bike rack not designed for a load in this vector. Even if it doesn’t break anything, it will at best reduce your gas mileage. Your bike doesn’t need this at all. It can handle wind, rain, and even bug guts. I have traveled to CO, AZ, AR, and PA with my precious Ripmo and it’s been fine. Save the money and invest in a proper chain lock to secure the bike from theft which it is way more susceptible to. 🙂

Old thread but I thought I would add one more to the “don’t ignore it if things feel off” crowd. I started feeling like my heart was racing while riding around Christmas, and thought it was probably because I was getting over being sick around Thanksgiving. It didn’t really improve so I got a 24hr monitor from the cardiologist my Dr. referred me to. I went out for a ride with the monitor which showed my heart rate peaked at 262 with several arrhythmias. Cardiologist freaked out a little, additional tests (stress test and echo) were normal so I was sent to an electrophysiologist who thought I either had an an extra electrical pathway (Wolff Parkinson White syndrome) or more general atrial fibrillation. I had an ablation on Thursday which hopefully treated atrial fibrillation (no evidence of WPW was found). If it worked I should be back to normal shortly. It has been a strange few months though- I’m not super fit but I’ve always been fairly active and reasonably healthy, so this wasn’t an area I was expecting to have problems with.