It looks tiny, is it? I love the color! My bike also has a 12-27 but I need something bigger. Once the chainrings are replaced I think I will go mountain gearing like 11-34 or something silly. I am such a hill slug.
Welcome guest, is this your first visit? Click the "Create Account" button now to join.
Results 1 to 15 of 28
Thread: My New Bike
Hybrid View
-
03-24-2009, 07:32 AM #1
Can't never could!
- Join Date
- Apr 2006
- Location
- somewhere between the Red & Rio Grande
- Posts
- 5,297
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
-
03-24-2009, 09:33 AM #2
Ownin' my 3 feet!
- Join Date
- Apr 2007
- Location
- Tulsa
- Posts
- 307
What a beauty! (love the blue!!)
If you have any real hills over there (sorry , didn't check your location first) ask your LBS if they could switch the 27 for a 28 (12-28).. I just had my highest one switched out for a 28 and it does help!2009 Giant Avail Advanced 1
2008 Trek FX 7.5 (Commuter)
Baby Blue..retired to new rider: 2006 Giant OCR-C
-
03-24-2009, 01:41 PM #3
droppin' off the back
- Join Date
- Aug 2008
- Location
- St. Louis, MO
- Posts
- 1,058
Congrats!
"Well-behaved women seldom make history." --Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
'09 Trek WSD 2.1 with a Brooks B-68 saddle
'11 Trek WSD Madone 5.2 with Brooks B-17
-
03-24-2009, 02:31 PM #4
Registered User
- Join Date
- Sep 2004
- Location
- California
- Posts
- 488
She's beautiful! May you have many happy miles together.
-
03-24-2009, 03:55 PM #5
Randomeuse
- Join Date
- Apr 2008
- Posts
- 3,176
Please, tell me we've all been imagining the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrhs (and the Utah state legislature) all this time!!! A collective halucination!
Originally Posted by BabyBlueNTulsa
-
03-24-2009, 03:57 PM #6
Randomeuse
- Join Date
- Apr 2008
- Posts
- 3,176
Oooh, forgot to say what a purdy bike that is!!
-
03-24-2009, 03:58 PM #7
Float. Hammer. Jog.
- Join Date
- Jan 2007
- Posts
- 378
Congrats on the beautiful new bike! FYI, the Tour de Park City century route this year goes to Wolf Creek Pass instead of Bald Mountain pass. I'm looking forward to those wider shoulders (and fewer RVs, trucks, fifth wheels, and boats)!
Alex
-
03-24-2009, 04:03 PM #8
is no longer in NC!
- Join Date
- Jul 2003
- Location
- Traveling Nomad
- Posts
- 6,763
That is a pretty bike! Just the shade of blue that was on the old Rockshox SID fork on my mountain bike. I loved it and was sad when it gave up the ghost and I had to replace it with a silver one. Blue rules!
Enjoy!
Emily
2011 Jamis Dakar XC "Toto" - Selle Italia Ldy Gel Flow
2007 Trek Pilot 5.0 WSD "Gloria" - Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow
2004 Bike Friday Petite Pocket Crusoe - Selle Italia Diva Gel Flow
-
03-24-2009, 05:42 PM #9
Registered User
- Join Date
- Mar 2008
- Location
- The Windy City
- Posts
- 277
very nice!!
you now need blue tires!!
if you don't like sewing, you haven't found the right fabric
-
03-24-2009, 07:52 PM #10
Registered User
- Join Date
- Dec 2008
- Location
- New Zealand
- Posts
- 96
Love that colour! Enjoy your new bike
-
03-24-2009, 08:21 PM #11
Registered User
- Join Date
- May 2007
- Posts
- 546
I think a climbing lunch plate means a big big cog in the rear cluster (my bike guy likes to say "with these gears, you'll be able to climb a tree") Am I right? tokie
-
03-24-2009, 08:25 PM #12
like food and cycling
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Location
- Troutdale, OR
- Posts
- 2,600
Orbea is a very very nice bike and very well respected builder out of Spain. Many many happy miles.
-
03-25-2009, 06:22 PM #13
chionophile
- Join Date
- Dec 2004
- Location
- Utah, Gateway to Nevada, not to be confused with Idaho
- Posts
- 1,872
At least it's a pretty collective hallucination (most of the time). Except for during the legislative session. (oh! did I just say that?? Originally Posted by malkin
Please, tell me we've all been imagining the Wasatch Range and the Oquirrhs (and the Utah state legislature) all this time!!! A collective halucination!
)
I'm not ashamed: my climbing lunch plate is a 29 (I have a compact double). I built my own rear cluster (12-29). The toughest part was figuring out which spacers to put where.
-
03-28-2009, 06:44 AM #14
Shine on...
- Join Date
- Mar 2007
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Posts
- 502
Beautiful, beautiful bike!
2007 Trek 5000
2009 Jamis Coda
1972 Schwinn Suburban
"I rejoice every time I see a woman ride by on a bike. It gives her a feeling of self-reliance and independence the moment she takes her seat; and away she goes, the picture of untrammelled womanhood."
Susan B. Anthony, 1896
-
03-28-2009, 06:55 AM #15
I heart my bike
- Join Date
- Apr 2006
- Location
- where the wind comes sweeping down the plain
- Posts
- 5,251
WOW- that's one beautiful bike!!! That color blue is STUNNING! I hope you have so much fun together.
Check out my running blog: www.turtlepacing.blogspot.com
Cervelo P2C (tri bike)
Bianchi Eros (commuter/touring road bike)
1983 Motobecane mixte (commuter/errand bike)
Cannondale F5 mountain bike
Reply With Quote
