Went and rode Buttercup today. Took a day off and the boyfriend and I hit the trail.

WOW! I LOVE THIS BIKE!

I have only put around 50 miles on it, but I am getting more comfortable on it, and the speed is nice.

For part of the way we had a terrible headwind. When I got into aero position, it was so much easy to pedal into it. I could even keep a 16-17 mph average. WOW! On my Trek 1000, this would have NEVER happened.

It was great, because my boyfriend could hardly keep up with me as we went into the wind. I basically left him in the dust when I hit the aero bars.

Overall a 17 mph average... WOW! Just WOW!

On my Trek 1000 it took me months of training to get to this level. 3rd ride on my Buttercup and I'm already there.

A bike can make a different I suppose.

PS- My boyfriend had been considering attaching aero bars to his roadie. After our ride today, he decided we needed to go back to the LBS so he could get some put on. I guess my speed into the wind "sold him"?