Test Rides

[Miranda]

I know this thread of mine is a bit old, but I had something happy to add, so here we go...

I made my usual weekly stop at one of my lbs (sporting goods also, they do winter ski stuff too etc.) to drewl over what bike stuff is available, or came in new, etc.

And oh my mercy! They had received a new shipment of bikes that were all lined up shiny new and pretty in a row by the front door. Ahhh... the site and smell of carbon almost made me faint. Carbon does have some type of hidden smell to road cyclist, doesn't it? Any rate...

They are going to have a demo program where you can pay a rental type of fee for specific models for a 24hour test ride. Of course I had the guy dig in the back of the shop to see if there's something close to my size. There was.

We have snow and ice now, so the test will have to wait. But the worst part was an untagged site just put together on ceiling hooks above the mechanic. Beautiful carbon in a color scheme I have been drewling over on line. Hmm, now where I can go to safely sell a kidney...