Raleigh Sojourn

[Zen]

(still excited, despite the food poisoning that found me last night...)

Brief hijack but an important one.
you didn't by chance have raw tomatoes, did you?

[dex]

Brief hijack but an important one.
you didn't by chance have raw tomatoes, did you?

I didn't. It was shrimp. Evil, evil shrimp.

I'm allergic to raw tomato...I break out in big, painful bumps on the side of my torso and my face. Ugly stuff. And tragic, because until that started happening, I loved tomatoes. Is there a tomato poisoning thing going on? If yes, I should tell my parents, as my dad loves his raw tomatoes.

[Eden]

The Raleigh looks like a lovely bike - too bad it comes in such a limited size range....

Dex - re the Cannondale, was it one of the old oversized aluminum tube ones? My parents had those. IMHO handled like mud. Not really a bike I liked. (heck it might be my mom's.... she gave it to me and I gave it to someone I'm pretty confident probably never rode it.... was it black and red with some funky, funky bar covering that looked like a bunch of little rubber tabs?)

[dex]

I noticed the limited size range. I hope that's a side effect of this being the first production year, and in testing the waters for adding this kind of bike to their line they just decided to go with "common" sizes. Then again, finding touring-type bikes in smaller sizes seems like it might be a pretty big challenge--at least from what I've seen when browsing around online.

The Cannondale I saw was dark blue with black decals. I didn't bother trying to ride it, because when I hopped up on it in the store, it was pretty immediately obvious that it was too small for me. I did get a good laugh at how, um, squished my chest was with the 38cm bars on it, though. Heh.

I've gotten a couple of proddings from friends to check out the Salsa Casseroll and the Soma Speedster, as well. So, I might go seek those out this afternoon. (How much do I love giving myself time off from work? I'll be back to the daily grind tomorrow, so I might as well take advantage while project schedules will allow.)

[Zen]

Tomato salmonella http://news.google.com/news?q=tomato...num=1&ct=title