Bike envy - breathe deep!

[Cataboo]

I can offer no useful advice either as I spent two hours last night looking for a steel frame

Isn't the mariposa steel?

[subengine]

Well I'm glad it's not just me!

Happiness is loving what you have - I like that!

Now I just need to avoid going into bike shops for a 'browse'.

I can't justify it at the moment and I need to use and love the wonderful sub I already have. But maybe I can get a pretty jersey to take my mind off it...

[hilldweller]

Well I'm glad it's not just me!

Happiness is loving what you have - I like that!

Now I just need to avoid going into bike shops for a 'browse'.

I can't justify it at the moment and I need to use and love the wonderful sub I already have. But maybe I can get a pretty jersey to take my mind off it...

Yours is the pretty coral red sub isn't it? Shouldn't be too hard to love LOL

[subengine]

hilldweller - I know, I know, she is loveable. Geez I sound so ungrateful. It's just that her cousin is so cute! But seriously though I willl enjoy little 'Sarah' for awhile before I look at getting another bike.

[crazycanuck]

At my fave bike shop there's a really really cool looking single speed that keeps calling me to drool on it. Ooooo ahhhhhh

[Crankin]

Despite the fact that I have had 3.5 bikes (the last one was just a frame swap, keeping my components) road bikes in 7 years, none were really due to bike lust. My first road bike was an aluminum Cannondale. I don't know what components it had, probably 105s. The shifting sucked and the deur. sucked, too. After trying several fixes, my DH took me to Landry's, where I tested 2 bikes (stupidly, by just riding on the trainer) and got my Trek 5200. I loved that bike, but was having constant neck, back, arm pain. In retrospect, it may have just been my Fibromyalgia or some sports injury that I never treated properly. When a new high end bike store opened in my town, we went for a fitting. He did not press us to buy new bikes, but we were swayed by all of the Italian carbon in the shop. I got a new bike, which really was too big... sometime in the 2 years I had this frame, I was in the shop for something and had the only "lustful" reaction to a bike I have ever had. It was a deep, cobalt blue (get this) Trek 5200. It must have been in there for service, because they don't sell Treks. I knew it was a 47 cm by looking at it... I felt terrible. I wanted my Trek back, but sucked it up.
After 2 years of wrangling, I got a smaller frame, same brand, different model of the bike I bought there. It's definitely sexier looking, red, etc, but so far, no bike "excites" me the way you all are describing. Well, actually I feel much more "fondly" about my Jamis Coda. It's just a cool bike that I use to do errands or have fun on. No pressure type of riding. Since they are not too common around here, I always get compliments on it. I also get compliments on my Kuota, again because it's not a common brand, but I guess I'm not genetically wired for bike envy, which is good.

[emily_in_nc]

Well, actually I feel much more "fondly" about my Jamis Coda. It's just a cool bike that I use to do errands or have fun on. No pressure type of riding. Since they are not too common around here, I always get compliments on it.

This is exactly, to a "t" how I feel about my Bike Friday Pocket Crusoe. Right now, that's the type of riding and the type of bike I most enjoy. I sold my sexy, go-fast carbon Aegis Swift and really haven't regretted it. I still have a very nice (but older) Titus Racer-X MTB. Even though I do get occasional bike envy, for now, I'm happy with what I have, and that's a nice feeling.

[ZenSojourner]

No problem with Bike Envy here. But I can't take the credit for it.

There's not an off-the-rack bike outside of the Terry I already own that would fit me, so what's to be envious of? LOL!

[tulip]

There's not an off-the-rack bike outside of the Terry I already own that would fit me, so what's to be envious of? LOL!

A Luna, that's what.

[ZenSojourner]

They're not off the rack bikes. They're custom.

Aside from the fact that I can't afford a custom bike, I feel no envy whatsoever.

Maybe it just isn't genetically in me, like Crankin, LOL!

[tulip]

Ah, but mine was "off-the-rack." It was pre-built, and it fit me, and it's marvelous.

But I guess what you don't know won't tempt you.

[sgraham]

Just bought my dream bike, the pink and black Orbea Diva...and she really is a Diva....She rides like a dream....Also have a Raleigh comfort bike, a Specialized Sequoia road bike and a Specialized Globe Sport hybrid bike... I am running out of room for all of these!!! Cannot buy anymore, but then again, why would one want to when you have the Diva!@!!!:

[ZenSojourner]

Ah, but mine was "off-the-rack." It was pre-built, and it fit me, and it's marvelous.

But I guess what you don't know won't tempt you.

Well then that was just luck. They have one "pre-built" on their site right now and it's way too big for me. Well not "way", but too big. Also too expensive.

I take that back - it is way too big. The top tube is almost an inch and a half longer than my Terry. It's actually longer than my old almost-fit Trek. Plus the stem on it is longer than on my Terry (I know, you can replace a stem)

I'm pretty sure that what I'm feeling here is the OPPOSITE of bike envy!

[Triskeliongirl]

Zen, which terry bike is that? From the pic I would guess one of the newer madeleines, 17.5" (or maybe 19" hard to see headtube length in the tiny picture)? Am I right? Why don't you show us a bigger pic???

[fidlfreek]

Don't you think the main unifying factor among TE posters is our varying degrees of mutual bike lust?? We come here to get more of it than we can in the "real world"...