Maiden Voyage/Ride-Pic

[lph]

I love your photo, Catrin, you look sooo happy! Beautiful bike too.

[Catrin]

I love your photo, Catrin, you look sooo happy! Beautiful bike too.

As painful as my hands were, I loved the bike! I posted the following in another thread, but just to make it easy here is what I learned from my LBS:

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I am happy to report that apparently Surly included not only the incorrect levers, but the incorrect bars with my LHT build! (happy in that it is an easy fix). My fitter, who is a very tall/large man, said that such large levers would give even him problems! He was not surprised to hear that my hands were cramping at all. So he is contacting Surly to have them ship the correct bars and levers.

That doesn't mean that I won't have to focus on posture, but I knew something else had to be going on - the pain came too fast and too strong.
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edited - I misunderstood what I was told - the bars that Surly sent were indeed the correct, compact bars. It turns out that those bars are still a little large for me, so my LBS is replacing them with a slightly smaller set of bars - going to 38cm bars. There were two different issues and I had combined them