Veronica wrote: "My personal philosophy ... from Eddie Merckx.

"Don't buy upgrades. Ride up grades."

V, that conflicts directly with my LBS philosophy "why train? buy speed"

Just kidding ;-)

that brings to mind a question, those of us who have signatures, why'd you choose 'em? Me first I guess, it was a quote from L.A. that repeated indeffinately in my mind got me up some hard hills.