What we got from Santa?

A belated Happy Holidays to you all! I hope everybody is having a festive time.

The remodel timeline crunch and a broken computer kept me away for too long but I'm baaaack! I missed you gals.

What did you and your bike habit get from Santa this year?

For me it was: Trico Iron Case (airline/train travel case for my bike) and 2 big gift certificates to my favorite bike shop.

What was under your tree?

Spazz

Glad to see you've come home for the holidays!!! Santa left me a FSA carbon crank for my Trek 5200, and he left me new hubs and a bottom bracket for the ole Terry which I am converting from old school to new school componets, (my idea of fun now that there is 12 inches of snow on the ground). The new crank looks sweeet on my bike. Can't wait to try it on a real surface and not just rollers.

karen

bike stuff was limited to some socks and tidbits this year. I'm kind of sock s**t so there's no such thing as too many.

The real goody was a huge set of calphalon pans, I do love to cook so this is excellent!!

Irulan

Topolino wheels with cool kevlar spokes for my Litespeed Tuscany! Santa told me I was very, very good this year. But family was here all week, it's raining and now I'm sick so I havn't been able to ride them. Do you hear the whambulance coming?

Avid Juicy Sevens to be exact.
And a new saddle bag.
And a raincheck for a road bike if and when I ever find one that fits both my body and our budget. The shop's supposed to be getting that XS in for a test ride next week...

I won't be able to ride outside for a while... we got 12-15 inches of snow Sun-Mon. Winter has come to New England. Being a roadie AND a weather weenie, it's indoor activities for me!

Jan 2, it's off to the gym and the unwrapping of those Spinerval DVDs I bought last summer.

Meanwhile, I'll peruse all the goodies to see what those gift certificates will get me :D

New Winwood carbon fork for me. Wahoooo. Hubby is so good to me. Now if we could just get rid of all this snow. My little Surly is going to be so happy.

spazzdog got a "Trico Iron Case (airline/train travel case for my bike)"

so spazz, c'mon to the Cindy! No excuses now.

I forget... what's the Cindy?

And, Trek - is your sofa ready?

Seriously though, I doubt any trips til end-o-March. I'm in 'sucky' shape. I need to REALLY work out.

I really don't know what the cindy is though. pm me on that Trek should the other ladies not want to suffer yet another episode of "Spazz the Sieve brain".

The Cinderella - metric century for women only in the East SF Bay. To be done at least once by all women in the area. It fills up very, very fast! I think last year all 2200 spots were gone in a few days.

www.valleyspokesmen.org

OK... I've added my info to the mailing list for Apr 2005.

Ohhh! A goal for winter training.

The question: can one train for a century completely in the gym and on a trainer?

Hmmmmm? 75 miles on a trainer... who's butt hurts now?

Here's another women's ride I've stumbled across. They haven't updated the site yet, but somewhere else I read the date was June 11, 2005.


Little Red Riding Hood

Veronica

I was *supposed* to get a new gruppo (10 spd dura ace or chorus...hadn't quite decided....) then my daughter spilled lemonade in her laptop.:mad: :mad: :mad:

I took the cash option and IBM got my xmas gift instead. :(

Luckily a fellow cyclist took pity on me and gave me his last-year's dura ace (9 speed). What would I do with 10 speed anyways, right???

:D

I received a little cash, enough to get a new pair of shorts and maybe pick up a couple new tires on sale. It will be tough to decide between tires for the roadie or the mountain bike, as both will need new ones in the coming months. I'll just shop for the best deal--and there are some deals to be had. One thing I will get for sure is more CO2 (Don't leave home without it!).

I got a beautiful silver bracelet in the shape of a bicycle chain.

I got IP amfib tights and a mini pump. The tights feel great, but ladies....they do not block out 17 degrees of cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today it's supposed to get up to 39 and I see that New Years day should be in the 40s. YIPPEEE I am taking out my precious Carmen for the "First Dozen". That is a local New Years Day ride.

some of you already heard this in the bikes forum, but I got a bike!

My father and his wife called me back in November with a budget and said, "whatever kind of bike you want in this price range, you pick it out and we buy."

I have my first real road bike. The TREK 1000 WSD.

It's pretty. The brushed aluminum with only some paint in white and light blue.

We also wandered around the bike shop and picked up some other stuff to go with it, like a new helmet, (pearly white to match :) )And a bright screamin' yellow PI windbreaker, so dumb cars don't run me over.

Boyfriend and I have yet to exchange gifts, so I don't know if there's more bike stuff on the way or not! :D (We wait until New Year's Day to do our gifts, because Christmas is so hectic with both of us coming from divorced families.)

Sounds like Santa was good to all of you - enjoy!

PS: my new bike needs a name. thinking of naming it gorgeous george. ha ha. ;)

Santa brought me a pair of clipless pedals - my first, so wish me luck! Also a new Camelback with more ounces. Yipee!

:( I"m pitiful! I didn't get 1 bike thing from Anyone in my family this year - I guess they all think its just a hobby and "if they ignore it it will just go away". So I bought myself some new rapidfire shifters for the bike. I"m going to pick it up tonight after being out of town all this week and I"m riding Baby tomorrow come heck or high water!

Santa sure has been busy - there's some lucky lasses out there.

Myself - I got a lovely Camelback for my newly embarked on mtb career from my fiance, but have yet to get pressies from my brother. He doesn Ironmen triathlons so I 'm expecting some cycling stuff from him too.

I got him some groovy water bottles, a thermal long-sleeve t-shirt and, just to help the training, some vodak chocolates! :p

what are vodak chocolates? are they yummy?

Since neither Santa nor Chanuka woman thought I needed more bike stuff, I got myself some new PI fleece tigths and a new long sleeve jersey, plus a few little trinkets like socks and tire levers and a little multi-tool. Now all I need is better weather and at least one week of not being too sick to go ride. It's been three weeks, and no relief in sight. Well, next year should be better :cool:

fasteryet,

there's a Chanuka woman?? Yes, Virginia, there's a Chanuka woman

well, I haven't actualy *seen* my family yet, due to the ongoing fiasco with my car thing but I got a big check, and i mean large check from my Mom also a gift certificate to REI from my neice. Other than practical things like paying bills with Mom's gift I plan to replace my bike shorts with new ones for the Lifecycle in June possibly with the PI tights with the chamois.

My sister hand knit me cycling arm warmers, they are so cute i think she should go into the business if the being a tenured sociology college professor does not work out for her ;-) They are black with Norwegian traditional styleized embroidery of figures of women in beaded embroidery around the wrist. I can go from century to opera house ;-)

Hopefully I'll be able to see them and my brother soon and do the gifty thing for them.

http://www.tandemhearts.com/utah/delicate-arch.jpg

Santa took me to Utah. We visited Arches, Canyonlands and Zion National Parks. Didn't do any riding - saving that for warmer weather. But we did do lots of hiking and photography.

Veronica

!!!WOW!!! Vernoica! What a superb photo!! Truely jaw-drawing! Hats off to Santa, what a great pressie.

Santa must have been looking at the holiday catalogues this year. He took my riding partner to Venice for a few days. She's been longing to go since we went to Italy in June. Marco Polo airport is on the outskirts and as you approach it you fly in low over the city and can see it spread out beneath you. At the time she felt robbed that she got to fly over Venice but not actually visit it. Now she's finally got to visit and had an amazing few days.

spazzdog - vodak choc's... erm...actually an s.p. on my behalf. I meant vodka. You can tell I can't handle my drink - can't even THINK about it without my brain going to mush.:p

I don't post much but lurk daily! I had a post in New Riders awhile back about saddle soreness, well for Christmas Santa (hubby) got me a Selle Italia Lady Flite Gel Saddle and much needed better grade cycling shorts, also got a new helmet. Finally got to test the saddle and shorts out on a short ride a week after Christmas (had six inches of snow on the ground Christmas day). Looking forward to next weekend (it is supposed to be unseasonably warm), and a good long ride to try all the new equipment out. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!

MMMM-mmmm! Vodka chocolates sound even better! I may need to get some of those for those "after ride" treats.

My best present was the bananaguard!
It's brilliant - surprisingly it fits any shape and size of banana - don't know what the postman thought of the package though, as it came in a plastic envelope!!
Would recommend this to anyone - no more squished nanas on your bike ride - and you can pick a colour to match your bike/gear!!
http://www.bananaguard-uk.com/