'To be able to ensure that I rode within my [Citi Bike] time limit, I needed a watch that was digital (to communicate the time quickly and clearly) and durable (I’m still a newish rider after all)'
Photo: Retailer Like many city dwellers , I have never found the process of getting from point A to B more fraught than during the pandemic. While I’ve dialed back my reliance on previous lifelines — rideshare apps, the subway, buses — to help minimize the spread of COVID-19, as the weather got warmer, I realized that walking for more than an hour in 90-degree heat isn’t exactly the smartest way to get around.
Lacking storage space in said roommate-filled apartment, and unsure if I’d ever ride enough to make the cost of buying a bike worth it, I chose to use the ones offered by the quasi-public Citi Bike system. At $3 a ride for 30 minutes, it seemed like a pretty great solution — except for the fact that those fees can rise quickly if you don’t return a bike within that window. But keeping track of time while cycling, I soon learned, isn’t the easiest thing.
In my last job, at a travel magazine, I edited a column written by a watch expert. He once wrote that while he loved fancy brands as much as the next horologist, for exercise or sport, there is nothing better than a cheap Casio. Inspired by his take, I went to look for a Casio with a particularly large, legible face, and landed on the Digital Illuminator Sport Watch. At less than $20, it seemed just what I was looking for — and cheap enough not to care if it wasn’t.
Casio Men’s Digital Illuminator Sport Watch, Black $20 now 25% off $15 But here’s the thing: While I bought the watch as a timekeeping tool for my bike rides, I’ve quickly come to appreciate it for far more. Biking gear isn’t ever exactly stylish, but when I wore my Casio to a meal with another Watch Guy, he mistook it for the brand’s far more covetable and expensive G-Shock Classic Core Watch, which earned me his respect .
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