Score!!

[dingster1]

I finally got my road bike!!! I picked up a Fuji Newest 3.0 at Performance's Anniversary sale today! It was marked down to $499 from $699 and I got $80 more off for being a Team Performance member!! I'm getting used to the thumb/brake shifter combo. I'm in love!! :) Mandatory pic follows!!

[F8th637]

Awesome! Congratulations on the new bike! I love the color combo. When's her maiden voyage?

[Geonz]

Love is good :)

[dingster1]

I'm gonna start looking for mountain pedals real soon as the ones on there are utter crap, even though I have platforms on my hybrid! Any suggestions? I'll probably take her around town tomorrow after I finish an appointment.

[blondiebiker]

This was my first pair of clipless pedals, and I loved them! They are very easy to get in and out of, and the small platform is pretty comfy.

http://www.crankbrothers.com/candy.php

[queenridingbee]

Congratulations!! I saw that bike and considered it myself. Performance is having a great sale this weekend. I am going to take the same $$ I would have spent on this bike and upgrading my hybrid (Trek 7000) to a Trek 1.2 from my LBS.

Keep us posted about how it feels to transition from hybrid to road. I've never ridden a rode bike before and had a hybrid since April.

I tried Shimano SPD (?) pedals on the hybrid but it was too hard for me to clip into. I took those back and got Look pedals instead. I don't think those are considered mountain bike pedals though.

Q

[F8th637]

This was my first pair of clipless pedals, and I loved them! They are very easy to get in and out of, and the small platform is pretty comfy.

http://www.crankbrothers.com/candy.php

Those are the same ones I have. I second the recommendation.

[Tri Girl]

Whoot woo! Congrats on your new ride- she sure is a beauty!!!! :D

[sbctwin]

Nice bike...how's your ankle...didn't you sprain it a few weeks back?

[Aggie_Ama]

This was my first pair of clipless pedals, and I loved them! They are very easy to get in and out of, and the small platform is pretty comfy.

http://www.crankbrothers.com/candy.php

I use these on my mountain and the Crank Bors Smarty pedals on my commuter. Love them and mountain shoes are so comfortable to walk in. Hmmm Candy in red or Smarty with red inserts! I also hear good things about the Frogs.

Your bike is a beauty, I loved my Fuji I started with. Wish I hadn't sold her, she was a quality little workhorse.

[uforgot]

Love that color combo! Red and silver, very nice! Did you keep the stock saddle on it? I have yet to get a bike where the saddle was a fit.

Anyway, congrats!

[HillSlugger]

Beautiful bike!

I have Shimano mtb pedals on all my road bikes: M520's on the commuter, M540's on the road bike, M950's on the race bike. The 520's are the best value.

[mimitabby]

RED BIKE

congrats on the purdy bike!

[Zen]

I recently got Crank Bros. Mallets because of the platform size.
We are not enjoying a pleasant relationship.
Difficult to clip in, difficult to unclip. :mad:

[dingster1]

The ankle is doing much better, only a little tender to touch/flex now. I'm gonna start color coordinating soon. Matching water bottle cage, etc. AND ITS ALL Y'ALLS FAULT!!! :) For now the stock set stays until I put some miles in.

[Trek420]

The ankle is doing much better, only a little tender to touch/flex now. I'm gonna start color coordinating soon. Matching water bottle cage, etc. AND ITS ALL Y'ALLS FAULT!!! :) For now the stock set stays until I put some miles in.

Sorry. :rolleyes: We're just doing our small bit to boost the economy :cool:

Nice bike! Red and silver hmmmm, at first I thought flames but red is so hard to coordinate, I think she needs this:

www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=30002

[Zen]

...and summa these (http://www.teamestrogen.com/products.asp?pID=29004)

[short cut sally]

Is she blaming us for her new habit??:D Sometimes it pays to be an enabeler (spelling?)..;)

[dingster1]

Well, I broke the bike in today, or did it break me??? For anybody in Montgomery County who was riding around Sugarloaf Mountain this morning, I was the chick hiking/biking on those hills!!! Yup not ashamed at all to say I was walking some hills today!!! I was trying to learn the gearing, and kept messing it up! :) Its a little different than my Trek to say the least! I had a good view though as a few cute guys doing their training rides passed me--- more than once!! :) I pulled out as soon as I got off work at 8 am and just took my time. My Cateye Mity 8 decided it didn't want to be calibrated either so I'm not sure yet how far I did. I'll go map it out and see!

23 miles... Time for a Pepsi and a nap!

[HillSlugger]

I hope that this is the start of a love affair.

It gets pretty hilly and steep up by Sugarloaf! Quite ambitious for a first ride. No shame in walking.

[F8th637]

23 miles. See? Just 7 miles from 30. Dream bigger! Congrats!

[Zen]

Dingster, give me a holler if you want to do that again. I'm not too far from there and need to get in some road miles!

[Mr. Bloom]

Yup not ashamed at all to say I was walking some hills today!!!

Outstanding ride/hike. I love the attitude of one woman at last year's Hilly Hundred in Bloomington as I greeted her on a hill she was walking... she proudly said "There's no hill to steep that it can't be walked". I always smile when I think of that!

This group will give great advice on gearing.

[madscot13]

Great bike. I'm happy you found something that fit the bill.

maybe you shouldn't get new pedals until you are more comfortable with the bike as it is...

[dingster1]

Thanks guys!. No, the plastic pedals definitely have to go, They are worse than my platforms on my Trek. Soon as the laundry gets done, I'm off again... somewhere....