Hey SillyMia... That's how I got sold on Kona too.
I hope you enjoyed the WMDR as much as I did!
Anne
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10-15-2007, 05:01 PM #1
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10-15-2007, 05:08 PM #2
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NO WAY!!! Small world! Did you do Gravity Tours? Amazing trip, eh?
Originally Posted by onimity
Hey SillyMia... That's how I got sold on Kona too.
I hope you enjoyed the WMDR as much as I did!
Anne
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10-15-2007, 06:12 PM #3
A bike named Jake.
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Oh wow!
Thank you all for such a great, warm welcome. I've been babbling on and on about bikes to my friends and family for awhile and I think they're getting just a little bit tired of it. I'm so glad there is a place I can come and talk about it with a group of great women who know so much about the sport.
I'm also really glad to hear that Kona's get good reviews from some of you, especially if they can make a bike to handle "the world's most deadliest road!" It took a lot of time but I think the Jake is right for me. (Even though the Jake the Snake is so tempting, haha.) I can see how the sport and looking at bikes can be addicting. I remember the owner of the first LBS I went to told me the right bike would pick me and I think it has. Now I have lofty dreams of centuries dancing in my head. That will be a long way down the line, I'm sure. Baby steps, of course.
I'm so sorry I didn't respond to everyone individually, but thank you so much again.
Oh and I'll probably be posting pics of my new bike very soon.
~Erin.
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10-15-2007, 06:41 PM #4
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Yea, I rode with Gravity too, they were amazing. I had so much confidence in them which was really key on that road! Not to mention the hydraulic brakes! Originally Posted by SillyMia
There were some girls with another company that we passed who were on miserable bikes, probably the Bolivian equivalent of a Wal-mart bike, and they were still in their cold-weather clothing at the bottom, riding by themselves (guides ahead in a van). One girl's wheel was out of true and hitting her brake pads. Talk about scary!!!
Our guide (who claimed to be able to diagnose any mechanical problem on a bike from 500 feet) stopped to help her repair it.
That ride was so amazing, it is up there with the coolest things I've ever done in my life.
Anne
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