Tell her from me... " go on grrl! throw a leg over!"

An aside - my TREK 1000 was born in 1989. It had the single piece 7 speed gear cluster. I found out the hard way in 2000 that when that thing goes it's almost impossible to replace. I was fortunate that, at the time, the mechanic I used was part of an 'old boys' network... he was able to scrape one up so I could do my AidsRide.

I was told by the bike shop I now frequent that the only thing my old TREK is good for now is to pop all the components off and turn it into a fixed gear for track or REALLY hard road workouts.