I am ready for my first road bike

[ivorygorgon]

Thank you all so much for your thoughtful comments. They are just exactly what I was looking for! Keep 'em coming!

I tried the Trek tonight, and it felt really good. It gave me my "biker's smile" in about 30 seconds.

DH is out testing his new Trek 2.3 right now. He is so cute, like a little boy. I am jealous. I want mine already, but I want to be really careful and get the right bike!

[marni]

I ride a Trek pilot 5.2 which is my first and only road bike. I have done 3 cross coutry rides on it, from New Orleans to Lake Itasca along the Mississippi, from Mobile to Niagara Falls and this last summer from San Diego to St. Augustine, and other than replacinng stretched cables, chains, bar tape, worn brakes and worn seat I am still on the original crank, bontrager wheels, second set of bontrager tires and shimano ultegra rear derailleiur. I had it professionally fitted after the first time I broke my ribs. I love it dearly and do about 5,000 miles a year which makes about 27,000 miles on it. Like you, I rode it after trying many, loved it and bought it. I keep telling my kids and husband that for my 65th birthday, I want a trek madone 6.5 or a candy apple red jeep wrangler but I'm not sure I will ever love any other bike as much as I love my "bebe".

[ivorygorgon]

Now I just have to have a custom paint job like Gnat's!

[WindingRoad]

Congratulations on the new addition. Lots of fun to come!

[annielynn]

Great choice! That is the bike that I ride, my first road bike!