Quote Originally Posted by Trek420
bikeless in WI "OK. Thought I'd found a road bike on Craigslist that I could use here after. But it was already sold. Oh well. I'll keep looking."

a rule of thumb is "don't make major changes to the bike before a big ride" although I certainly violated that by getting my bike less than a month before ALC 3.

But I'm not sure we want to look for a whole new bike at this point. Also Craigs list? Not always the best place for bikes mostly because it takes effort to not only find the right bike (which is never easy to do) but avoid the bad karma of buying a "hot" bike.

How tall are you? 5'9-5'10? Stay tuned.

Looooove new avatar.
Well, thing is, either I have to take the bike back home with me as checked luggage Mar 26 (costs $80 and involves finding a box and packing it) or rent another bike here for May & June (costs about $150-200 and is likely to be another knobby-tired "urban jeep" type bike) or ... what? I can sell the one that's in Sonoma now, either here or there, or leave it at Mom's for recreational use on later visits. It's got good gears and fits nice, but I prob'ly won't ship it home come July. I already have a bike back home that's just as good. With slightly narrower tires. And a full diamond frame. So better. But if I come across a road or touring model for 100 or so then that would do for my last 2 months here, including a ride or two. Right? Then the Giant could stay at Mom's for training on later visits.

'Course, they do rent out old clunker road models here for I think $30 a year at Budget Bike. I could sign up for one'a those. I've seen 'em around. You can imagine. But I guess they roll. People use 'em. But yeah, I'm 5'9". The bike you've seen has a 19" frame, the one back home has a 20". I was looking for 19" when I bought it, but they said try it out anyway and it fit pretty well. So, thereabouts.

As for the avatar. Shall I stay with the Munch original version or switch to the Warhol version? I've finally got that one formatted so it should work. Colors are sharper. As a graphic artist, whaddaya think?