New bike, first road bike!

[millefolia]

I wanted to share my excitement--I bought a new bike this week, my first road bike! (I also have a Trek 7100 hybrid which I use for commuting, a 1970s John Deere bike which I keep just because it's so neat, and a Target-brand mountain bike that I need to figure out what to do with.)

New bike is a Trek 2.1 Triple WSD, on sale at my LBS because it had been a demo/rental model. Still in great shape, and not old at all, it's a 2009 model. I took it out last night and it almost seemed to accelerate on its own! It's a lot of fun to ride. I can tell I'm not as good at riding it yet as I am at riding my hybrid, but that will come with time.

I haven't had a chance to take a picture yet, but here's a stock pic of the same model with the same orange-and-cream Dreamsicle coloring. :-) I already swapped out the saddle for something wider, though.

I'm putting together an emergency kit to keep in the seat bag--patch kit, etc. Suggestions of things I might forget to put in the kit are welcome! (I still need to put one together for my hybrid too.)