For Elk. Show us your Jamis

[sandra]

I'm certainly no expert, but it looks great to me. The bike is beautiful and you certainly look like you are enjoying yourself. If you feel comfortable, that's the most important thing!

Great picture! Thanks for sharing.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

You look comfortable- do you feel comfortable?
Two things-
Do you feel like your weight is nicely centered and not falling forward?
And do you have any aches or like numb hands or sore neck, etc?

Do you feel like you can get power behind your legs when pedaling?

Your riding posture looks very much like mine when I have my hands on my hoods too.

If all is well....then just enjoy!

Nice duds!!!

[cosc]

Elk, you look terrific on your new Jamis. I think your will have many super rides on your bike. I'd like a bike like yours-just a few sizes larger. I too enjoyed wearing my Ibex knickers today.

[elk]

I have on my Lena skirt now over my leggings and my norgie crew on top and over that my new 9$ ebay red merino sweater and I feel SO AT HOME in these clothes!!!

I plan to follow yr advice, Lisa, and after setting the aurora up close to what is "correct" just ride for a few weeks. I am playing around with moving my weight from bar to saddle to pedals to distribute it evenly and I can feel just where I need to strengthen my muscles...

A year ago Thanksgiving...I quit smoking, and then I gained a bunch of weight....and got no excercise...
Today I am totally smoke free, have lost 15 lbs, and not only do I not have to FORCE myself to "go outside and play" I LOVE it!!!

[sundial]

Elk, you look grand on that bike of yours.

Did you draw the picture of your collie?

[KnottedYet]

Yay, Elk! You look fabulous!

(and very hearty congratulations on going a year without smoking!)

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Yay from here as well! Elk- you have turned your life around!

Yeah, just ride for a few weeks to let your muscles start adapting. If you are not in pain don't worry about tweaking your bike for a while. The longer you ride the more obvious it will become as to what changes you might need to make. People tend to tweak their new bikes back and forth so frequently at first that they totally forget how the bike was set up to begin with, or which tweaks resulted in what differences for them.

Isn't it wonderful to have found a healthy exercise that seems like FUN rather than work? That's how I feel about it!
I lost 15 pounds too over the past 2 years of walking and biking....after a lifetime of non-exercise/non-sports.

You selected some really great wool pieces to get set up with. You'll get a LOT of mileage from those items you chose.

Wearing my snuggly wool tights and skyline zip top right now......

[elk]

thanks friends...it's fun to justify spending all this money on bikes and wool and leather....i just remind myself it used to be cigarette money...and probably would've ended up as health cost money!

I used to be all heady and broody and smokey...embraced psychic suffering for the sake of "depth"...and now I'm all clean and squeaky and just wanna ride my bike with my dog!!

Here's me and Maudie on the Other bike...which I still love. I'm singing Maudie's song to her...you can see she's listening...

(Sundial... that's a photo of my dog's great great grandfather, the great Ch Tartanside Heir Apparent)