need to buy my wife a bike

[Chile Pepper]

1st: Paper or clocks (modern): Bike mag subscriptions or bike computers/HRM
2nd:Cotton or china: Clothes, cotton bar tape or, yeah, ceramic bearings
3rd: Leather or Crystal: This can only mean leather saddles.
4th: Fruit/flower or appliances: Power bars or a trainer?
5th: Wood or silverware: Hmm. Shiny new parts are silver.
6th: Candy or iron: Steel is made from iron so that must mean steel bike frames.
7th: Wool, copper or desk sets. Wool is good. The rest is meh.
8th: Bronze, pottery, satin or lace: You have to come in at least third place for your beloved. Or,well, ceramic bearings are sort of like pottery.
9th: Pottery and willow or Leather. Just in case the leather saddle you bought six years ago is gone or messed up. Could also mean leather handlebar tape
10th: Tin or aluminum, diamonds or jewelry: New rims
11th: Steel. I can say no more.

The options start to get progressively worse after that.

This sucks--I should have received a Seven last year, and instead all I got was dinner out. This year (12th) is silk or pearls. What do I get for that? And would it be ok to substitute titanium for tungsten on the 16th? Especially since I didn't get my custom steel?

[Trek420]

12th - traditional is silk or pearls. Cycling is Pearl Izumi shoes.

http://www.pearlizumi.com/shop.php?p...&mode=products

[Chile Pepper]

12th - traditional is silk or pearls. Cycling is Pearl Izumi shoes.

Excellent! I'll let my husband know. For that matter, he could use some new shoes, too.