New Bike - I need an intervention!

[pinkbikes]

Well I thought I needed an intervention, but what I really needed was a new bike. And here it is - I got it today.

I do think that bikes are a bit like drugs. Or what I think drugs would be like since I wasn't much fun in the seventies and eighties! This is because I have looked forward to getting this bike. I dragged out the anticipation by taking ages to decided to buy it, and then waiting to pick it up.

I was so excited, but it seems that the thrill is not as big as it was for earlier bikes. I don't know whether it was a less exciting genre of bike, or whether it is because I own better-specced bikes in other genres, so it didn't tickle me with the "bling factor" so much or just what? One way or another I didn't get the usual "I've just bought a bike" kick I expected.

Has my drug of choice started to become less effective?

Of course I then took it home and made it mine. I pumped its tyres up, put bottle cage and pump on it. Put Garmin bracket and Ay-Up light bracket on it. And a bell - lest I get pinged by the cops during bike week next week!

And I took it for a quick spin up the road and back and declared it fabulous! It's not the expensive and better specced Spesh FSR MTB. It's not the nimble, bought on a budget roadie that has been jazzed up with red bits that introduced me to brifters. But it will be much loved in that "don't want to be head down and butt up, but still want to ride something nice and light that moves along smartly, that I can put a rack on if I want to to cart stuff" niche.

What a happy little camper I will be with Scottie!