Ok, Cindy gals....

[BikeMomma]

Oh, you guys...wow....she looks lovely any way I look at 'er...I'm in love. I feel like I don't deserve such a nice ride, but darnit! I work hard! YEA!

Thanks for all the congrats! Nancy, you made me laugh with the extra table thing. Too funny! Slinkedog - it has a double chainring, and 10 cogs in the rear. Way more than my Cannondale, with 6 cogs. More gears choices will be interesting, to say the least. Also, I have to get accustomed to the shifter levers being at my brake hoods, and not the down tube. The guys at the shop had to show me how to work them. Then, if that's not all, I got new pedals, Speedplay Zeros, which I have to get accustomed to, as well, since I have Aerolite's on the Cannondale (I'll be changing those to Speedplay's as well, so I won't need to keep changing shoes/cleats). I took it up and down my street when I got home from work tonight, played with the gears, made sure I could get in and out of the pedals. I'm meeting a couple guys at 8am for a ride in the morning, to work out some fine-tune adjustments before Saturday. I can already tell my seat needs to be raised. The lbs guy underestimated my long legs, I guess (I'm 5'9").

By the way, I do have a name for my new baby girl... "Flicka". With my other love being horses and the bike being black, I thought I'd combine the two with a horse name. Black Beauty and The Black (from the Black Stallion books - I had the whole set when I was a kid) were maybe a little much, and besides, I felt that my bike had to be a girl. Us girls understand each other, ya know? In the book My Friend Flicka, Flicka was a black filly with white markings and was hand-picked by a little boy who had long been wanting a horse of his own (correlation: lusting after black carbon, etc.). She was a rebellious little filly, but became gentle under the boy's touch and care, and she was FAST! Ok, so I might be going a little overboard with the correlations, but the point of the gibberish is, Flicka fits! hehe

Also, welcome Spazz, to California!