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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Nov 2008
    Location
    portland, or
    Posts
    190
    My bikes:
    • 1996 Trek 700 Multi-Track hybrid w/ Xtracycle - purchased in grad school, converted to be my minivan last October

    • 1999 Sycip road tandem - our wedding present to ourselves. Doesn't get used so much these days, but we're hoping to put a stoker conversion kit on it so that our almost 7 year old can ride it with one of us and start getting him out on some longer rides

    • 2001 Torelli Corsa Strada road bike - this was my 30th bday present from my husband and I love it. In February for my 39th bday, we just upgraded the Campy Veloce 9 speed gruppo to the Athena 11 speed. I sometimes think I want to try a lighter road bike, just to see if it would improve my hill climbing and speed, but this fits me so perfectly and is just so comfy that I can't quite motivate to do it.

    • 2008 Felt F1X cross bike - just got this off of eBay 2 weeks ago and haven't ridden it more than around the block yet. We re-ran the brake cable yesterday, after removing the in-line brakes, and I still need to adjust the rear derailleur before I can get out and see how I like it. The stem feels a little long and the handlebars feel a little wide, but we'll see!

    • 2009 Sweetpea custom 650b mixte - my 'round town, do everything bike, but dang, it can haul *** when I want or need it to. And it can climb well too, thanks to the compact double on the front and 11-34 mountain cassette on the rear. Someday, I hope to do some longer tour rides with it since I have a front and rear rack for it. When the boys are older and we can do some bike camping. I love and adore this bike and it was well worth the wait.


    I also have a hand-me-down Trek 5200 OCLV, that lives at my in-law's cottage in Michigan. It's a touch big for me, but I only ride it for 2 weeks a year, so that's ok.

    Goals:

    • Ride as much as I can, whenever I can. Sometimes, that means 2 miles a day, taking the boys to school and back. I'd love to get out on long "real" rides more often, but until both of them are in full-day school, five days a week, I don't see it happening. And since my husband rides too, we usually have to divvy up the weekend mornings.


    • My other goal is to ride and finish at least one cross race this fall.


    • Get stronger on hills. I've been working at this, and I'm getting better, but I've got a ways to go still.


    • Finally do a century. I've done a metric century, but never a full 100 miles. It's about darn time.

  2. #2
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Location
    Suburban MA and Western ME
    Posts
    1,815
    Bikes (sorry - don't know all the model years):

    - 2010 Specialized Tarmac team bike (DH just finished the build today)
    - 2006 or 07 Kestrel Evoke
    - 200? Rocky Mountain Turbo
    - 2009 Specialized Transition TT bike
    - Cannondale Tandem (since we have 2 of these, I can count one as mine, right?)

    - Specialized TriCross
    - Ridley Cross Fire
    - Kona Major One (SS)

    - Specialized Epic Marathon
    - Soul Cycles Hooligan (SS)
    - Unnamed Carbon Hardtail MTB

    Yeah - um, N+1 is definitely in effect at my house

    As to which I ride the most? Can't tell you. In the winter, on the rollers, it's been the Rocky Mtn. In race season, it will be the Tarmac. All depends on what I am doing, or feel like riding. I know that life is tough in my world when my biggest decision of the day is which bike to ride .

    Goals for this year:

    Racing for our women's Elite team, so hoping not to suck!

    SheFly
    "Well behaved women rarely make history." including me!
    http://twoadventures.blogspot.com

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Silver Spring, MD
    Posts
    474
    Bikes:

    2006 Trek 1600 - a friend gave this one to me since it was too small for her. After riding it for a while, I realized it was also too small for me so it's in storage.

    2009 Trek Madone 4.5 - this is my commuter bike so it's the one I ride the most.

    2009 Trek Madone 5.2 - my favorite

    Since I try to commute 4 out of my 4 working days (weather and schedule permitting) and I try to do long rides on the weekends, at a minimum, I am riding around 150-200 miles per week. Once the weather gets nicer, the mileage will increase.

    2010 goals:

    Try to figure out how to get faster (if possible) since I might start racing and I would like to be able to hang with the faster riders on the group rides.

    Trying to be more consistent with the weekend group rides (in other words, DON'T sleep in!)

    A couple of centuries (did my first one in September and it was a blast).

    Keep on enjoying it!

  4. #4
    Join Date
    Sep 2009
    Location
    Tucson, AZ
    Posts
    1,973
    I have two bikes:
    2009 Fuji Finest 2.0
    1983 Nishiki Custom Sport mixte

    I ride the Fuji most of the time. The Nishiki is for going to the store, post office, etc. when I have time to do my errands by bike.

    I have been riding 3-5 days a week, 50-100 miles, enjoying the opportunity to ride during the winter in Arizona.

  5. #5
    Join Date
    Oct 2009
    Location
    Orlando, FL
    Posts
    162
    Just a Poll - What bike or bikes do you own? What do you ride the most? What are your 2010 riding goals? How many days a week do you ride and total weekly mileage?

    Currently I own a 2010 Trek 2.1 WSD and an OLD walmart brand mountian bike. Which is currently the go to the grocery store and pull my 2 year old around in a trailer bike. It is really heavy! I ride my Trek the most these days. Only on the weekends do I lug the mountain bike out. I am grateful to have it thought.

    2010 Riding Goals
    -In september I will be doing the metric century Assault on Sugarloaf with my hubby. Climbing the hills of Clermont, Fl.
    -I want to ride at least 4 times a week either on my trainer or with the group. Now that the sun is out later I will be able to ride with my club on Wednesday nights.
    -Hill training.
    -To keep up with Hubby!

    I ride with my cycling club on the Sat, Sun and Wed. I try to make at least 2 of these. I average about 60-80 miles a week. Not too shabby!
    ~ Annie ~

    Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling. ~James E. Starrs
    My fitness blog

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    I'm the only one allowed to whine
    Posts
    10,557
    Quote Originally Posted by jdubble View Post
    My bikes:
    [LIST]
    • 2009 Sweetpea custom 650b mixte - my 'round town, do everything bike, but dang, it can haul *** when I want or need it to. And it can climb well too, thanks to the compact double on the front and 11-34 mountain cassette on the rear. Someday, I hope to do some longer tour rides with it since I have a front and rear rack for it. When the boys are older and we can do some bike camping. I love and adore this bike and it was well worth the wait.
    Envy, envy, envy! Natalie works on bike projects with Michael Sylvester, who trained me in bike fitting. After hearing him talk about her and her bikes, I soooooo want one!

    I love, love, love her blog: http://www.sweetpeabicycles.com/blog/ Anyone who will mention Billy Collins in their blog is hotsy-totsy in my list.

    (meanwhile I have 3 lovely bikes, but I also ascribe to the "perfect number of bikes to own is n+1" theory)
    Last edited by KnottedYet; 03-14-2010 at 08:59 PM.
    "If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson

 

 

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