Yeah!! I am awesome!! (AKA: what a difference eight months can make)

Not to be full of myself or anything... :p

Aside from 30-odd flat miles when I was in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago, I haven't done any road riding that hasn't been all about getting wherever I need/want to go since Christmas Eve last year. I picked up my new roadie this morning and after lunch I pointed it up the local hill. Yes! I got to the top of the pass without stopping for the first time ever and with quite a few more teeth on my smallest chainring this time too! Go me!!! And then (after stopping to stuff my lungs back inside my chest) I swung left and rode along the summit road (rollery) just to inflict a bit more leg pain on myself. All those dirty miles seem to have helped rather a lot.

The weather was pretty mint too. :cool:

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Yay! DirtDiva you *are* awesome! What a great road! And a great tag line! And you've improved so much!

Happy celebrating butterflies,
~T~

Ohhhh very vewy nice bike!!

Good to hear your ride went better than planned!!!

Is that in the port hills>??

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Looks like a lovely setting for a challenging bike ride on a lovely day...

Dirty miles, minty weather, a sweeeeet Vixen...

Niiiiice specs... Shimano 105 and Ninja paint job... (NZ made too...)

You have every right to feel absolutely and completely full...

Well done on the ride - I have made it up Evans on the mountain bike once, but haven't been brave enough to try Evans or Dyers on the road bike

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whoooo - I love your bike -that is precisely why my credit card is not allowed into Bike HQ

Well, it was on sale for quite a bit off...

From what I could see of the trails from Summit Road, they are looking primo. Rapaki Track is my next challenge, and I'll have a whole lot more little gears to get me up there.

You ARE awesome. I bow down to thee, giant hill climber!! I'm super impressed! Congrats on making up that big boy without so much as putting a foot down. :)

High-five yourself! See how much you needed and deserved that new bike? :D

Way to conquer that hill on a beautiful new bike.:)

Wow! What a hill! Gorgeous new bike!

Yes, you are AWESOME!! :D

Nice job getting up that hill! Beautiful bike too! :)

Brag away! You deserve to. Gorgeous new bike, too. Yay! And, looks pretty there. So fun to see pics from everywhere all the TE women ride. Fun to vicariously step outside my own little world. Thanks!

Great riding. I love the name of your bike model!