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Niiiiiiice!! Love the colors you chose!
I'm sure you'll have many happy miles together.
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08-03-2007, 07:48 PM #1
I like bikes
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Finally.. A new bike ... Cavaletta
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It has been several months since I ordered this bike, and even longer since I started on the quest of getting it. With Brooks leather wrapped Eva bars, a
new (slippery) Brooks saddle, velocity rims, continental 25mm tires, campy record components and a nitto stem... it's really pretty and it goes like butter.
It's more stable than the Bianchi, it's kind of strange, i got on it and it was easier to ride than the bike i've been riding for over a year.
Here's my first photos!
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08-03-2007, 07:54 PM #2
Pugs, not drugs!
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08-03-2007, 07:55 PM #3
Can't never could!
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Finally! She is really gorgeous. Here's to many enjoyable rides.
Amanda
2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
2007 Cannondale Synapse Carbon Road | Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow | "Miranda"
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. -Lee J. Colan
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08-03-2007, 07:59 PM #4
They call me Crash
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WOW!!!! she is lovely! (it is a she, isn't it?)
"Being retired from Biking...isn't that kinda like being retired from recess?" Stephen Colbert asked of Lance Armstrong
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08-03-2007, 08:01 PM #5
Enjoying the Ride
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super duper!
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08-03-2007, 09:45 PM #6
Don't whine
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Wow, Mimi! How beautiful! Well worth the wait! I love the red trim/red fenders, gorgeous!
(and you're mighty fine lookin', too!)"If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson
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08-03-2007, 10:18 PM #7
It Matters To This One
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Wow, what a really, really pretty bike. And Campy Record. Wow.
"The best rides are the ones where you bite off much more than you can chew, and live through it." ~ Doug Bradbury
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08-04-2007, 03:53 AM #8
Red bikes rule!
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Oh, Mimi, you've had such an ordeal getting your orange bike and now it's finally over! I'm glad Cavaletta is everything you dreamed she'd be. Beautiful!
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08-04-2007, 03:55 AM #9
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oooH, HOW PRETTY!! I love the way the brown leather complements the orange frame. Well worth waiting for I am sure. I am so glad you are happy with the handling and fit, that's always the scary part for us shorter gals! I think your builder did a great job!!! May you have many happy years/miles together!
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08-04-2007, 04:02 AM #10
Head up. Shoulders down.
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Hooray! Glad the wait is over. Looks like it was worth it! Congratulations on a beautiful bike, and wishing you many, many happy years and miles....
2007 Seven ID8 - Bontrager InForm
2003 Klein Palomino - Terry Firefly (?)
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08-04-2007, 04:13 AM #11
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She's a beauty! happy riding
"Chisel praise in stone; write criticism in sand."
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08-04-2007, 04:27 AM #12
Slow and Steady
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Absolutely gorgeous!
To quote the Paolo Bettini commercial, but is she "insano veloce"? (?sp?)
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08-04-2007, 04:39 AM #13
Grease Monkey
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The joy of a custom frame.
Originally Posted by mimitabby
Lovely bike. Have fun with it.
Oil is good, grease is better.
2007 Peter Mooney w/S&S couplers/Terry Butterfly
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1980 Columbus Frame with 1970 Campy parts
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08-04-2007, 04:45 AM #14
Queen of All I Survey
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You have your orange baby! You'll need to matching jerseys.
Named yet?
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08-04-2007, 05:35 AM #15
I like bikes
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Southern Belle,
I already have more than one orange jersey. Yesterday started kind of coolish, so I had on my Ibex red instead.
The name is Cavalletta which means grasshopper. or... little horse? and I misspelled it already.
it has 2 l's and two t'sLast edited by mimitabby; 08-04-2007 at 05:39 AM.
