Looky what I got for my 40th birthday! :D
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Looky what I got for my 40th birthday! :D
Awesome! Congrats! Happy birthday :D
Happy birthday and happy ride! :)
Happy Birthday!..looks like you've already had too much fun!
Woo-hoo! Happy birthday! 40 is the new 27 ;)
Happy riding at 40 and beyond! :D
Happy Birthday! Nice bike and it looks like you enjoyed riding it already.
You got a muddy bike?? Man. That's just RUDE! :eek:
Just kiddin'.
Sweet ride.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to you, indeed. :D
Umm... those are some nice calves!! :)
Happy Birthday! Looks like you spent it right:cool:
Are those your calf muscles? Holy cow!
Happy birthday!
Roxy
Good 'n Dirty. The way she should be :) Congrats.
I did get a little help from some lucky shade in defining my calves :D
So this is my first "real" mtb. It has a cute story: my dh bought it off a woman who had gotten all fired up at work about riding Birken with her colleagues, a very popular mtb event, 93 km long. They'd gotten a good deal on bikes, she trained 100 km altogether, did Birken, her knees hurt and she didn't want to ride anymore...
I've had a rigid mtb for years and mostly used it for commuting and riding on gravel roads. I've tried trails a few times, but mostly just got mightily frustrated at being bounced off roots, rocks and the like. But when this lovely thing turned up on my doorstep I had to go try it on a real mtb trail :D
Lesson 1: racing pedals (ie. one-sided) are useless on a trail, unless you plan on never unclipping. :rolleyes:
Lesson 2: mud slows you down. A lot. I actually learned that after a few tries.
Lesson 3: the nice smooth surface of a large puddle doesn't mean the bottom of it is equally nice and smooth... I tried just charging through a calf-deep puddle to avoid the gnarly root-mess on one side, and ended up getting my bike stuck in the very middle, tipping over and hitting a submerged rock with my knee.
I even managed to do it on the way back too :rolleyes:
Happy Belated Birthday!
What a perfect present. ENJOY!
Happy Birthday! That looks like a great bike. Does it have a name?
My bikes mostly have nicknames like Old Faithful or Frankenbike, but this one might become "Phantom Bike" - now you see me, now you don't... ;)
Congrats! Happy birthday.
The 40's are great. Enjoy!
Congrats on your birthday and your bike. What a great way to have a birthday.
As this fellow learned the hard way:Quote:
Originally Posted by lph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LO9EPtCz8
What a great birthday present!
Happy Birthday! Looks like you're already having fun!
Wooo!!! What a birthday present!! AND What a first ride! Enjoy your new bike! Glad to see she got all dirty (and you did, too!).
Nice!!! Happy Birthday!