Grrr...now I get why limewave cancelled her own Salsa (Mamasita) order a year ago and grabbed a Trek Superfly, instead. She waited and waited and waited and kept receiving ETAs from Salsa that would pass. She would have ended up with her bike months after they first said she would have it. Were I actually registered for Iceman I'd not be able to wait. I could have bought a registration from a friend, but decided if I didn't have my bike by last Friday that she should sell it to someone else who was interested.

So today marks 3 weeks since Salsa told me publicly on Twitter that my bike should be here "within 2 weeks." It sucks as I see people left and right getting new bikes, but my order was in months ago and I still wait. And as I wait the weather is going all to Hell and our nearest mountain bike land closes on 11/1 to hunters and doesn't re-open until May.

When I demo'd the El Mariachi 2 a week ago I got to experience just how godawful my current bike is...and now I am loathe to ride that at all. I can't keep up with anyone on that thing--even people who struggle to keep up with me on any other bike (and, crap, I won a women's cyclocross race on Sunday, this shouldn't be so damned hard). I'm redlining and dying up even tiny hills (and I usually am a sicko who kinda likes hills on any other bike) just trying to not be abandoned in BFE!